A Technical Introduction to the Internet
(for Non-Technical People)

"The future ain't what it used to be."
Casey Stengel

"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
William Gibson

Internet Storm Center

Lesson 1: A History of the Internet

Using the internet

1. Basic Guide to the Internet
2. Learn the Net
3. The Internet and the World Wide Web   [Baltimore County Public Library]
4. Parenting Web Smart Kids
5. AARP Learn the Internet
6. Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon
7. NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary
8. Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions

Origins and Development of the Internet

1. History of the Internet   [Internet Society]
2. History of the Internet
3. The Internet Language Dictionary
4. Computer History Museum
5. BBC: Becoming WebWise
6. Life on the Internet: Net Timeline   [PBS]
7. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
8. A Little History of the World Wide Web
9. The original proposal of the WWW
   1. the VERY FIRST photo ever published on the web!
   2. Les Horribles Cernettes
10. fUSION Anomaly. Internet
11. Internet Chronology
12. IMS :The IMS Founding Fathers Raffle
13. Internet Pioneers:
    1. Vannevar Bush
    2. J.C.R. Lickilider
    3. Larry Roberts     Lawrence Roberts Home Page
    4. Paul Baran
    5. Bob Metcalfe
    6. Doug Englebart
    7. Robert E. Kahn
    8. Vint Cerf     Vinton G. Cerf: Truth and the Internet   Welcome to Cerf's Up
    9. Ted Nelson
       1. TED NELSON HOME PAGE
       2. Udanax.com
    10. Tim Berners-Lee      Free was the key, says Web founder       So I have a blog
    11. Marc Andreesen
14. In 1964, David Sarnoff said...
15. Before the Web, There Was Viewtron    Inside Viewtron
16. Al Gore    No Credit Where It's Due    
17. Dr. Jonathan B. Postel   About PCEN's namesake: Jonathan B. Postel
18. Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, the Inventor of the Internet Technology
19. Who really invented the Net?
20. The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words
21. Lots of candles for Internet's birthday
22. A Closer Look At The Controversy Over The Internet's Birthday
23. The Birth of the Internet
24. Debates persist over Net's birthday
25. ARPA - DARPA     History of ARPANET   
26. BBN Technologies
27. WWMCCS
28. THE FIDONET HOMEPAGE
29. Before the Web, There Was Viewtron
30. old BBS textfiles
31. Gopher
1. Gopher: Underground Technology
2. gopher at quux.org
3. gopher.tc.umn.edu
4. Gopher: pygopherd
5. The Gopher Manifesto
32. Download the Internet
33. World of Ends   [Doc Searls and David Weinberger]
34. Pew Internet & American Life Project
    1. Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers
35. Study: Men and Women Use Internet Differently
36. What does it "look like"?
    1. UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society
    2. Internet: "The Big Picture"   [ Russ Haynal ]
    3. An Atlas of Cyberspace
    4. The Opte Project
       1. Internet mapping project weaves colourful web    [New Scientist]
    5. Architecture of the World Wide Web   [ Volume One]
    6. WebMap
    7. Mappa.Mundi Magazine     Map of the Month Archives
    8. ThemeScape
    9. Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale
    10. Antarcti.ca    Map.net
    11. Map of the Internet - IDL MAP
    12. Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery
    13. || peacock maps ||
    14. The Internet Weather Report
    15. Internet Traffic Report
    16. State of the Internet
    17. The Internet Health Report
    18. A geographical map of the internet   [Geobytes ad network]
    19. NetFactual.com
    20. VisiBone Country Chart

How Internet Standards are Developed

1. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt    RFC INDEX
2. http://www.rfc-editor.org/   RFC Editor
3. Request for Comments (RFCs) -- Overview

1. Internet FAQ Archives
2. Internet Notes, including RFCs, FYIs, STDs, and IMRs.
3. Standards (and 36 Cross References)
4. The Internet Report
5. Normos: The Internet Engineering Standards Repository
6. Fred Baker's HTML version of the "official" text list of RFCs
7. The Network Bibliography
8. Organizations
   1. The Internet Society (ISOC)
   2. Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
   3. The Internet Engineering Task Force
   4. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
      1. Bret Fausett's icann.Blog
   5. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
   6. American Registry for Internet Numbers
   7. United States Internet Council
   8. International Telecommunication Union    [ITU]
      1. World Summit on the Information Society
      2. WSIS Discovers WWW And Wants In
   9. Internet Policy Institute
   10. Benton Foundation
   11. PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility
   12. The Internet Software Consortium (ISC)
   13. Internet Telecommunications Project
   14. NSIRegistry.net [Generic Top-Level Domains Registry Document Repository]
   15. Network Solutions
   16. National Telecommunications and Information Administration
   17. National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications (NCO/CIC)
   18. NANOG: The North American Network Operators' Group
   19. The center for the Study of Technology and Society

Predicting the Future of the Internet

1. The Nuts and Bolts of Net Neutrality  [PDF]
2. Predictions Database   [ Elon University/Pew Internet and American Life Project ]
3. Web 2.0
4. Web as Platform
5. unmediated: Tracking the tools that decentralize the media.
6. videoblog::vog 2.0
7. Information Wants to be Liquid
   1. Liquid Information
8. Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet
9. The Futurist: The Intelligent Internet
10. Big Bang! Digital convergence is finally happening
11. Internet Convergence 2.0
12. Pew Internet and American Life Project
13. The Journal of Online Behavior (JOB)
14. The Fabulous Disappearing Internet
15. Should Net users need a license to go online?
16. Vint Cerf hears VoIP calling
17. Legacy: A brave new World Wide Web
18. 2003 And Beyond
19. A mosaic of new opportunities
20. Counting on the Internet [.pdf]
21. Creating Convergence     [Scientific American: November 2000]
22. The Semantic Web
23. Avoiding Information Overload
24. Getting Serious Online
25. The Rise of the E-Citizen    [PDF 140kb]
26. Welcome to your future Internet
27. Screenfridge
28. Net-linked appliances have their place
29. Bernina's artista 200E — A Technology Turning Point for the Sewing Industry
30. Recent Emerging Technology Reports
31. The Wireless Mobile Internet
32. Shape of phones to come
33. Using the Web to Communicate in a Crisis
34. Ubiquious Computing:   IBM Pervasive Computing   
35. Virtual Worlds Group!       Enter WindupWorld
36. Internet Appliances
37. New Internet Computer
38. Internet Appliances Take Hold
39. Power To The PC
40. Are You Post-PC?
41. NASA Future Computing and Communications Technologies
42. Shouldn't Technology Make Life Easier?
43. Technology Visionaries Scope the Future
44. Technocopia
45. Internet Paradox
46. Ten Ways the Web Will Change the World
47. The Workday Web
48. Web’s an indispensable but flawed work tool
49. The Web100 project
50. Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative
51. The Internet2 Project
52. Abilene
53. Virtual Worlds
    1. There
    2. Virtual-Worlds.Net
    3. Howard Reingold    The Virtual Community
54. PlanetLab
    1. OceanStore
    2. Netbait
55. InterPlanetary Internet
1. InterPlanetary Internet Special Interest Group      IPN Technical Information
2. Space Communications Protocol Standards
3. WorldCom : Resources : Cerf's Up : Interplanetary Internet
4. A web that’s out of this world
5. Inter-Planetary Networking And Other Spaceborne Communications Networks
6. TransOrbital   [servers on the moon]
7. fUSION Anomaly. Interplanetary Internet
   

Lesson 2: How Computers Communicate on the Internet

Moving Data across the Internet

1. Internet Technical Resources
2. Matrix NetSystems: Internet Average
3. Ad hoc IPTools Page
4. Packet Switching Demo    (Flash 3)
5. Traceroute.org     TraceRoute Online WebTool   traceroute to host
6. Traceroute from Genuity to FairfaxCounty.gov
7. Check the connectivity to your website with traceroute
8. The Ping Page
9. Ping Online WebTool
10. Pathping   [Win2k/XP]
11. How to perform a Trace Route and Ping
12. Introduction to TCP/IP
13. TCP/IP
14. TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
15. IP:Internet Protocol
16. Internet Protocol (IP) Internetworking Transport Tutorial
17. The Essential IP Toolkit
18. Basic Steps to Troubleshooting TCP/IP
19. Protocols
20. Routing Protocols
21. Internet Protocol Addressing
22. Museum of Broken Packets
23. TCPView

Internet Protocols

1. Blackbox
2. Cisco

Internet Addresses

1. WhatIsMyIP.com
2. http://205.156.54.206/nwr/   NOAA Weather Radio
3. http://170.215.149.18/    County Comission of Jefferson County, WV
4. Port Numbers
5. Port Numbers   [23, 80, 21, 70...] 
6. IP Port Numbers - Full Listing
   1. Post Box  8080
7. Other Special Addresses    [127.0.0.1, 10 , 172, 192, etc. ]
8. SubnetOnline.com Network Resources
9. IP Version 6 (IPv6)
1. IP Version 6 (IPv6)
2. 6bone Home Page
3. IPv6, QoS & Power Line Integration
4. IETF IPng Info
5. ipv6.org
6. IPv6 Forum
7. 6ren
8. v6nap
9. 6tap
10. HS247
11. IPv6: "Six" Appeal
12. The Transition to IPv6
13. Next IP meanders our way
    
10. The Internet Backbone. Part 1
11. The Internet Backbone, Part 2
12. How Does DNS Work?
13. DNS Concepts
14. Ask Mr. DNS
15. www.DNSreport.com     www.DNSstuff.com
16. History of the Domain Name System
17. AnalogX - DNSDig     Dig DNS Check
18. DNS LOC: Geo-enabling the Domain Name System
19. Root-Zone: Index by TLD Code   Country Codes   ISO3166 Country Codes
20. http://come.to/vmax
21. http://www.learn.to/   [The WebAlias Network ]
22. The creation of a ".eu" Top Level Domain
23. the official US Domain Registry   kids.us    .mil    .gov
    1. H.R. 3833-Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 200
24. New TLD Program:   .biz, .info .name, .pro .aero .coop .museum
25. ICANN-Accredited Registrars
26. Domain Information
    1. Domain lookup  [EchoEcho.Com Tools]
    2. easyWhois
    3. InterNIC Whois Search
    4. Whois Source - Wildcard Domain Search Lookup
    5. uwhois.com
27. myIPaddress.com
28. Reverse IP Lookup     Decimal/Dotted-Quad Conversion   [Try 198.76.201.196 ]
29. Dynamic DNS Network Services
30. DynIP - Dynamic DNS Service
31. PURL    [Persistent Uniform Resource Locator]
32. Snurl | SnipURL - Snippetty snip snip with your long URLs!
33. Geo Tags for HTML Resource Discovery
34. Obfuscated URLs / HTML
    1. Decimal IP URLs
    2. Decipher obfuscated URLs
    3. Examples of Obfuscated URLs
    4. How to Obscure Any URL
    5. Obfuscated-HTML De-obfuscation Tools
    6. Web page decryption
    7. Email-Cloak

Making the Connection

1. The Broadband Difference
2. Bandwidth Place, Tech Guide: Connecting to the Internet
3. Appalachia: Where Net Trails Off
4. Broadband Internet Access with Windows 98 Second Edition
5. NYC Unveils First Internet-Ready Pay Phone
6. Modem, Networking and Communications Links
7. Internet Service Provider FAQ
8. 56K.COM: V.90 Modems, Cable Modems, ADSL, ISDN and Satellite
9. Local ISPs         ISP Roulette
10. Six kinds of Internet accounts
11. Cut down web for digitally deprived

1. Peer to Peer Network
   1. Troubleshooting a Peer to Peer Network
2. Dial-up / Dedicated Line
   1. The List
   2. Curt's High Speed Modem Page
   3. 56k Modem Troubleshooting
   4. ModemHelp.Org   [Access Statistics ]
3. ISDN
   1. ISDN
   2. Brainstorm Networks: Decicated ISDN
4. DSL : Digital Subscriber Line
   1. Sorry Wrong Number, Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL
   2. DSL Finds Its Killer App
   3. How Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs) Work
   4. DSL Forum
   5. The different kinds of DSL
   6. Sorry, Wrong Number
   7. General PPPoE Information
   8. Digital Subscriber Line     [Cisco]
   9. Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) FAQ
5. Cable
   1. Cable Modems
   2. Cable-Modems.Org
   3. Cable Modems & xDSL Resources
   4. CATV CyberLab   Cable Modem Vendors
   5. Yahoo Computers and Internet > Hardware > Peripherals > Cable_Modems
   6. Ben's Cable Box
6. Wireless
1. 80211-planet.com
2. Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing - Home
3. Mobile Wireless Internet Forum
4. Wi-Fi Wireless Ethernet
5. OpenAP - Home
6. Pesky Home Networks Trouble Cable Behemoths
7. NoCat Wireless Network       NYCwireless
7. Fixed Wireless
   1. StarNetWX
   2. Waverider      Easy Wireless Deployment With WaveRider
   3. ISP - Planet: Fixed Wireless    How To..
   4. Forbes.com: Fixed Wireless Internet Access
   5. Ride The Waves
8. Satellite Internet
   1. Tracking      NASA J-Track
   2. How It Works: Satellite Internet Access
   3. Satellite Internet Access Up In The Air
   4. StarBand
   5. Direct PC
   6. DirecPC Uncensored !
   7. Teledesic
   8. New high-speed Net services from space
   9. EarthLink Launches Satellite Internet Access
   10. Satellite Internet access ready to take off
   11. SkyREPORT.com Satellite Industry Daily News
9. Fiber to the Home
   1. Fiber to the Home Tutorial
10. Power Line Communications (PLC)
1. Powerline Networking Comes Of Age
2. Addressing the Digital Divide with IPv6-enabled Broadband Power Line Communications
3. IPv6, QoS & Power Line Integration
11. High-Speed Sites
1. IFILM - The Internet Movie Guide
2. FeedRoom.Com
3. www.KaZaA
12. Test your connection speed
13. DIY home computer networking guides - HomeNetHelp.com
14. Welcome to the Broadband Guide
15. broadbandreports.com - the place for BROADBAND

Lesson 3: The World Wide Web

1. A Look behind the Web
2. HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
1. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)   [WDVL]
2. HyperText Transfer Protocol  [Webopedia]
3. Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
4. HTTP for HTML Authors: Part I     Part 2     Part 3
5. Ad hoc IPTools Page
6. Internet Tools Gateway
7. Understanding HTTP
8. View HTTP Request and Response Header    Web-Sniffer
9. Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer
10. Delorie Software Web Services:      HTTP Header Viewer       HTTP Request Viewer
11. Virgin Media Tools
12. Browser ID (User-Agent) Strings
13. Examine the headers generated by your web server for a particular page.
14. Status Code Definitions      
15. Whats so funny about a 404 Error message?
3. Web Pages and Other Content
   1. The Early History of HTML
   2. HyperText Markup Language Home Page
   3. Learning HTML
   4. XHTML for Web Development
   5. XML     XML and More
4. Web Clients Browsers
   1. Web Browsers
   2. How to Delete the Contents of the Temporary Internet Files Folder   IE
   3. gemal.dk :: BrowserSpy
   4. WebTV Viewer
   5. ZDnet
   6. Furniture.com
   7. Site officiel du musée du Louvre
   8. HTTP Header Viewer
   9. Environment Variables
   10. A Web Form Analyzer
   11. Compare below: QUERY_STRING, CONTENT_TYPE and CONTENT_LENGTH
   12. A Test Form: GET
   13. A Test Form: POST
5. Cookies!
1. Rex Swain's HTTP Cookie Demo
2. Bake your own Internet Cookie!
3. How It Works: Cookies
4. Cookie Central
5. Internet Cookie Report
6. Cookies
6. Caching
   1. Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
7. Web Hosting
   1. Changing Web Hosts? Step-By-Step Guide
8. The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services
   

Web Servers

1. How a Web Server Works - Overview
2. Web Servers
3. Scooby-Doo or SFRANFILE: The hows and whys of server names
4. Server Platforms
5. ServerWatch: Servers Listed by Operating System
6. Picking a Web server?
7. Web Server Hosting
8. Web Servers
9. WebServer Quick Compare
10. WebServer OnLine Magazine
11. The Netcraft Web Server Survey
12. Netcraft's What's that site running?
13. What's that server running?
14. Web Server Popularity   [e-gineer - Article]
15. Web Servers Used at the Top Sites   [e-gineer - Article]
16. Web Server Survey       Report Archive       Weighed Web Server Share
17. TinyWEB server
18. Build an Internet Server on a Shoestring

1. Understanding FrontPage Server Extensions
2. Server Extensions for Microsoft FrontPage

1. CGI: The Common Gateway Interface for Server-side Processing
2. CGI Made Really Easy or, Writing CGI scripts to process Web forms
3. CGI Programming Is Simple!
4. A Tour of HTML Forms and CGI Scripts
5. CGI Programming FAQ

Web Applications

1. Death to Desktop!
2. GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
3. eyeOS | Web Based Desktop System
4. youOS
5. Aichi Institute of Technology's Campus Java Puzzle
6. Mesmer - A Java rendition of a recursive Sierpinski Curve of order 4
7. Java: Mosaic
8. BD Support - Web Plugins
9. A List of Browser Plugins
10. OBJECT test suite
11. http://www.gamelan.com/
12. http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/JPass.asp
13. http://www.shockwave.com/
14. "Overdue" a Macromedia Flash (SWF) movie   Flash
15. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/
16. Adobe: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)    Adobe SVG Demos    SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics

Lesson 4: Web Site Development

Who Builds Web Sites

1. Author
2. Webmaster    What is a Webmaster?
3. Webmaster Position Descriptions
4. System Administrator

Knowledge management

1. KM.GOV - Knowledge Management in the Federal Government

Web Content Authoring

1. Tools for Web Page Authoring

Web Graphics Design

1. Tools for Web Page Design
2. Cow or elephant?

Web Programming

1. EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING
2. Taking databases online
3. Client-side Versus Server-side Coding
4. Introduction to the Web Application Development Environment (Tools)
5. Which Server-Side Language Is Right For You?
6. Server-Side Scripting
7. ActiveX Controls Gallery
8. ASP: Active Server Page
9. ColdFusion
10. Curl Integrated Content Language
11. Java Server Pages (JSP)
12. Miva
13. MySQL
14. Perl
15. PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
16. Python
17. Server Side Includes
18. Server-Side JavaScript
19. Zope

1. Yahoo!
2. GoTo.Com
3. Amazon
4. L.L. Bean
5. Shockwave.Com
6. MP3.Com
7. Webcam at Creighton
8. Web Cam Central

Web Server Administration

1. ID Serve
2. Web Site Management Tools
3. So You Want to Run Your Own Server
4. Website Traffic Analysis
5. WebTrends Reports for University of Maryland, Baltimore County
6. WebTrends Live    [Demo]
7. WebLog Expert - Powerful log analyzer
8. Server Load Balancing Technology

Web Content Management

1. Avoiding Information Overload
2. Simple Content Management
3. Content Management   CIO
4. Managing Web Content
5. Untangling Web Content Management
6. Managing Web Content: From File System to Database
7. Managing Web Content
8. Managing Content on the Web
9. Content Management for the Masses
10. CMSWatch: Content Management Systems research and analysis
11. Content Management Systems  [PDF 182kb]
12. Your clients need a Content Management System
13. Using custom tags to ease content management
14. Content Management - The Magic behind the Web
15. AuthorIT
16. Watchfire
17. Lightspeed Astoria
18. Documentum 4i
19. J D Edwards Enterprise Content Manager
20. Live Linx
21. Oracle iFS
22. Trisoft InfoShare
23. XyEnterprise Content@ XML
24. Concurrent Versions System
25. CyberTeams Powered By WebSite Director
26. phpWebSite
27. Plone
28. Concurrent Versions System   CvsGUI

Lesson 5: Other Internet Services

1. HTTP Related Protocols

Electronic Mail

1. WebMail vs Email Clients
2. Internet Technical Resources: Email
3. A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
4. Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload
5. Using E-mail Effectively
6. Eudora Online Tutorials
7. Internet Mail Consortium
8. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
9. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
10. A List Apart: Win the SPAM Arms Race
11. Enkoder Form 5.0
12. Spam: It's completely out of control
13. Spam Stampede Clogs Internet
14. SpamCop
15. MailWasher
16. Will new filters save us from spam?
17. Incredimail
18. Emoticons    ;-)   :-)   :-|
19. IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
20. OURFAX: Free World Wide Email to Fax Service
21. Nigeria Advance Fee Fraud - scam - 419 - email hoax - con - confidence scheme
22. MHTML - Sending HTML in E-mail
23. How to e-mail pictures
24. GroupMail
25. Tagline database - one liners for your forum/email signatures
26. WebMail
    1. mail2web.com
27. Email Encryption
    1. Ciphire Mail
28. Privacy
    1. 4t HIT Mail Privacy
    2. PGP Corporation
29. MIME
    1. The MIME Information Page
    2. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions: MIME   Registered Media-types
    3. The World of Mime Theatre
30. HTML E-mail
    1. All about HTML Email
    2. 7 reasons why HTML e-mail is EVIL!!!
    3. How to Code HTML Email Newsletters
       

Telnet

1. What is Telnet?
2. PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client
3. Telnet.org
4. telnet://locis.loc.gov   [connect through telnet]

FTP

1. FTP: File Transfer Protocol
2. FTP 101 - A Beginner's Guide    Example FTP site
3. passive FTP
4. Command Line FTP
5. Index of /ftp   cwi.nl
6. ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/
7. Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists  [ftp]
8. FTP root at ftp.isi.edu
9. FTP Server Overview
10. WS_FTP      How to FTP using WS-FTP
11. CuteFTP    Cute FTP Tutorial    Cute FTP 4.2 Tutorial

ListServ

1. An Introduction to Email Listservs and Internet Mailing Lists
2. Facilitating and Hosting a Virtual Community
3. Yahoo Groups
4. topica.com
   
   

Usenet / Newsgroups

1. How the Usenet News Protocols Work
2. Usenet FAQs By Category
3. Network News Transfer Protocol
4. The seven don'ts of Usenet
5. Usenet Info center Launch Pad
6. Browse the Usenet Groups
7. Google Acquires Deja's Usenet Archive
8. BoardReader - Message Board Search Engine

VoIP

1. Skype   note on
2. Vonage
3. Net2Phone
4. Packet8
5. Google: Computers > Internet > Telephony > Internet Phone

Internet chat / IM

1. Internet chat
2. ICQ
3. How Instant Messaging Works
4. AOL Instant Messenger
5. "Talk" to a Librarian

Other Internet Services

1. How Does a Web Server Differ From an Application Server?
2. Making Web Services More Like Client Applications
3. Exploring the World of Application Servers
4. Application Server Overview
5. Java(TM) Web Start Demos
6. Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
   1. TightVNC: Enhanced VNC Distribution
   2. VNC, AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, Virtual Network Computing

Lesson 6: Internet Security

Security and the Internet

1. Internet Storm Center
2. F-Secure Corporation's Data Security Summary for 2004
3. The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities     Firms Respond
4. 2001 Internet Fraud Report       [.pdf 150kb 50 sec @ 28.8]
5. The Spectrum of Cybermalfeasance
6. Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
7. Schneier on Security
8. Feds planning early-warning system for Internet
9. Computer Security Day     
10. Zone-H.org   DIGITAL ATTACKS ARCHIVE

1. Organizations:
   1. CERT Coordination center (CERT/CC)    US-CERT
   2. The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC)
   3. NSA: Security Recommendation Guides     National Security Agency
   4. The Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC)
   5. Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (DoD-CERT)
   6. Air Force Computer Emercency Response Team (AFCERT)
   7. Navy Computer Incident Response Team (NAVCIRT)
   8. The National Aeronautics and Space Administartion's NASA Incident Response Center (NASIRC)
   9. U.S. DOE-CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory center) Website
   10. NIST: The Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse (CSRC)
   11. The SANS Institute Online    incidents.org
   12. www.fraud.org
   13. Stay Safe on Line
   14. SecurityFocus
   15. WiredSafety  [ Internet safety, help & education]
       

1. Guides:
2. A Beginner's Guide to Computer Security
3. Beginner's Guide to Computer Security
4. New to Internet Security?
5. How To Become A Hacker

1. w00w00 Security Development (WSD)
2. Google Web Directory - Computers > Security
3. The World Wide Web Security FAQ
4. Security World Wide Web Sites
5. Organisation for Internet Safety launched
6. Beyond-Security's SecuriTeam.com
7. ATTRITION Security.
8. ISPORTAL - ISP News and Resources: Security     Resources
9. Internet/Network Security
10. Microsoft TechNet Security
11. Microsoft Personal Security Advisor
12. Minimization of network services on Windows systems
13. Shields Up! Internet Connection Security for Windows Users
14. Spychecker
15. Security Scan - Sygate Online Services (sos)
16. Hacker Attacks!    [Cartoons]
17. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
18. Attack of the Killer Script Kiddie
19. THE HACKER'S DUNGEON       The Hacker's Tricks Of The Trade
20. HackerWhacker
21. Home Network Security
22. Tragedy of the network commons
23. Password
    1. Perfect Passwords GRC's Ultra High Security Password Generator
    2. Pronounceable and alphanumerical password generator
24. Copyright
    1. Creative Commons
    2. Copyright Website
    3. An Example of Copyright Infringement or Web Page Piracy
    4. Copyright basics for Web authors and users
    5. Purloining and Pilfering
    6. U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
    7. Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues
    8. Copyrighted Music and Internet Publishing
    9. Crash Course in Copyright
    10. Copyright Clearance Center
    11. Copyright Law and You
    12. DigitalConsumer.org
25. Privacy
1. Privacy Resource Guide
2. Online Privacy Alliance
3. Privacy on the Net
4. Anonymizer Privacy Test
5. Primedius WebTunnel
6. Internet Privacy for Dummies: Resources
7. Watch out for snooping spam
8. The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0)      P3P Policy Editor
9. Absolute Shield Internet Eraser
10. Free History Cleaner
11. On-line Editors
1. The DMA Privacy Policy Generator
2. ESRB Online Privacy Statement Creator
26. Phishing
1. Anti-Phishing Working Group
2. MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test II
27. Hoaxes and Misinformation
1. Urban Legend Reference Pages
2. purportal.com
3. HoaxBusters
4. Symantec Hoax Center
5. Vmyths.com
6. Gallery of Hoax Websites
28. Worms
    1. Gibe Worm Poses as a Microsoft Update
    2. The Spread of the Code-Red Worm (CRv2)     [Watch it Spread!]
    3. The Spread of the Code-Red Worm
    4. Code Red: Is this the Apocalypse?
    5. Code Red: Worm Assault on the Web
    6. First PDF Worm Hits PC Users
29. Virus / Antivirus
    1. McAfee.com - Virus Map
    2. Antivirus Software
    3. CERT Computer Virus Resource page
    4. eicar - European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research       Anti-Virus test file
30. Spyware
    1. Spychecker    OptOut -- Internet Spyware Detection and Removal
    2. SpyBot Search & Destroy
    3. SpywareInfo
    4. XP-AntiSpy
    5. The Trouble With Spyware & Advertising-Supported Software
    6. Privacy Power! Home: Adware, Badware & Spyware Profiles
    7. Privacy Analysis of your Internet Connection
31. Denial of Service
    1. Denial of Service (DoS) Attack Resources
    2. Denial of Service Attacks   [PDF - 8 pages]
    3. Overview of Scans and DDoS Attacks    [PDF - 3 pages]
    4. The Strange Tale of the DoS Attacks against GRC.COM
32. Trojan Horse
    1. E-card Sneakware Delivers Web Porn    parasite: Cytron
33. Browser hijackers
    1. Nasty Malware Fouls PCs With Porn
    Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers   ["drive-by downloader"]
34. Other Pains
    1. Anti-Phishing Working Group
    2. and.doxdesk.com       [find Unsolicited Commercial Software]
    3. Spyware Weekly > Xupiter
    4. Pop-Up Ads, Part 1: Good? Bad? Ugly?       Part 2: Usage Guidelines for Legitimate Marketers
    5. Windows PopUP SPAM
    6. Information on X10 Advertising
    7. How to avoid the wait: defeating ad banners @ DataDragon.com
    8. The Proxomitron - Universal Web Filter
    9. Pop-Up Stopper
    10. PopUp Killer
    11. Smasher ( stop popup ads, clean pc, stealth cookies, web bugs )
    12. AdSubtract.com - We Subtract the Ads!
    13. WebWasher       Test Page      Bruce's Independent WebWasher Workshop
    14. Internet Explorer URL Spoofing Vulnerability
    15. USB Flash Drives: Useful Device or Security Threat?

Security Tools

1. Firewall
   1. Choosing a Personal Firewall
   2. Firewall Resources at TestMySpeed.com
   3. Internet Firewalls and Security [3Com]
   4. Zeuros - firewalls
   5. Firewalls: The soft option
   6. FAQ: Firewall Forensics
   7. Testing your Firewall
2. Caching / Proxy Servers
   1. Web Caching: Making the Most of Your Internet Connection
   2. Brian D. Davison's Web Caching and Content Delivery Resources     Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
   3. Caching.com
   4. The Open Directory Project pages for Internet Proxy Caching Servers.
   5. Network World's caching resources page.
   6. The Resource - Proxies
   7. Microsoft Proxy Server
   8. Squid Web Proxy Cache
   9. Netscape Proxy Server
   10. Apache module mod_proxy
   11. WinGate  [personal/medium proxy server]
3. TEMPEST
   1. An Introduction to TEMPEST
   2. The Complete, Unofficial TEMPEST Information Page

E-commerce Security Issues

1. SET Secure Electronic Transaction
2. Using Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) with SanFrancisco applications    [IBM]

Resources

1. Ten Fundamental Truths About Learning
2. Understanding and Using the Internet Quiz  Are you an official"Certified Internet Guru"?
3. How Internet Search Engines Work   [Howstuffworks]
4. Parasitic computing
5. Global Statistics   [TheCounter.com]
6. Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools
7. G E E K T O O L S
8. The SimpleWeb
9. WebAttack.com
10. File Download Time Calculator
11. HTML Tidy
12. Nmap -- Free Stealth Port Scanner
13. Sam Spade for Windows   OnLine: SamSpade.org Tools
14. Cisco's IP Subnet Calculator
15. Gibson Research Corporation
16. Web Ad Blocking Under Linux/Unix, BeOS, MacOS and Windows
17. Ad Blocking
18. Wntipcfg.exe: Windows NT IPConfig Utility
19. Telecom Information Resources on the Internet
20. Xenu's Link Sleuth       User's manual by Indiana University
21. Computer and Communication Entry Page
22. Troubleshooting Problems Communicating on the Internet
23. HOW TO: Troubleshoot Your Windows 2000 Web Server
24. Web Pages Not Serving from IIS
25. Troubleshooting IIS Access Problems
26. IIS & Web Admin Channel
27. Hexillion: Online Demos
28. All Nettools: Network Tools
29. The Webalizer
30. BEEP   RFC 3080  [ Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol]
31. beepcore.org

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