What tools do we have at our fingertips? What do people actually do with them? What's ahead? How can you catch up/stay ahead? We'll look at Liberty and the World Wide Web (WWW)

Common terms:

• Liberty (now several linked computers at W&L which provide Internet connections and services)
• UNIX (the operating system used by Liberty; the $ is a UNIX command prompt) [basics]

• Campus Information System [CIS] (W&L's WWW Home Page, our interface to the WWW)
• Home Page (a personal or institutional starting place on the WWW)
• lynx (a text-only browser for the WWW --what you see when you choose CIS in Liberty)
• Mosaic and Netscape (graphic browsers for the WWW, using Windows or Macintosh)
• URL (Universal Resource Locator --a way to specify the path to a resource via the WWW)
• hypertext (text with links to other texts, images, sounds, video, etc.; basic metaphor of WWW)
• HTML [HyperText Markup Language] (the formatting commands for WWW Pages)
• bookmark (a WWW or gopher link you retain: a to add, v to view your lynx bookmark list)
• gopher (a hierarchical menu-based system for information access, mostly superseded by WWW) netlink (a W&L-based index of Internet resources)

• pine (the basic e-mail package used by all students and some faculty)
• USENET (thousands of newsgroups to which one can subscribe and read using tin) [basics]
• listserv (thousands of special-interest correspondence groups which distribute postings by e-mail) [more]
• telnet (a realtime connection to a distant computer's resources, such as an online catalog)
• ftp [file transfer protocol] (a means to transfer files between computers)

1. You need a Liberty account to explore these resources (but Netscape is available in Robinson 25 Mac Lab without any login); all staff are entitled to Liberty accounts on request.
2. Help With Electronic Access on the first menu of the CIS provides detailed instructions for many of the possible tools and procedures (the menu will change shortly, but Help with Access will always be an item).
3. Explore. In the lynx (text-only) version of the CIS, Enter 'opens' a highlighted link, left arrow returns to the highlight, up and down arrows move from link to link, and q quits.

• Under Help With Electronic Access: Hotlists, Some exemplary teaching materials on the Web
• Under August 1995 WWW Workshops: Examples of new uses of the WWW
• Under Other Info (at the bottom): Public Information, Admissions, Alumni, Anniversaries