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1. For more details on both the technology of, and the services of, the Internet, there are a number of extremely good reference texts available. In particular, Krol, E. (1992) The Whole Internet: Catalogue & User's Guide. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA or Kehoe, B.P. (1992) Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet. 2nd Edition (July). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ., are excellent value.
2. See for instance a recent survey by the Georgia Institute of Technology(June 1997)
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3. A firewall is a combination of computer hardware and software that examines the source and/or destination of data packets and (is supposed to) prohibit unauthorised attempts to gain entry to a corporate network using Internet services. All corporate Internet-related data traffic will be routed via the corporate firewall.
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4. Perhaps the most famous example of an Extranet is the Federal Express website that allows customers to track the progress of their shipment.
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5. For a non-technical introduction to TCP/IP, try Yale University’s Introduction to TCP/IP website.
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6. At the time of writing there is some discussion by the so-called International Ad-hoc Committee regarding the establishment of a further seven top-level domains (TLD’s)in order to ease the crush. These proposed TLD’s are .firm, .store, .web, .arts, .rec (for recreation/entertainment), .info and .nom for individual or personal nomenclature.
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7. Interested readers may find a complete listing of countries and their Domain Name codes.
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8. For example, the United Kingdom and Japan use “.co” instead of “.com” for its commercial domain and .ac instead of .edu for their academic domains.
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9. See http://www.ietf.org/overview.html.
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11. The term hypertext was coined by Theodore (Ted) Nelson who invented the word for "non-sequential writing."
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12. The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
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13. Developed by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. For more information on Java, see Sun’s excellent web site.
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18. A full list of U.S. law-related discussion lists.
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19. List of Frequently Asked Questions, found on the WWW.
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20. More information about IRC can be found on the WWW; including a FAQ.
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21. See the Parliamentary website.
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22. See for instance, the Kaye Tesler and Co, which offers a Web-based will drafting service. A similar service for Scots law is available.
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23. In 1998, the Iridium global phone network will be complete. Click HERE for more information. In 2002, the Teledisic global Internet network will be operational. See http://www.teledesic.com for more information.
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