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The Online World resources handbook Revision history
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The following major changes have been done to The Online World resources
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handbook since its original release:
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Version 1.8 November 30, 1994
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Highlights:
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- The IBM Global Network
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- The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
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- The NewsHound news filtering service
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- The DowVision news filtering service
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- The "In, Around and Online" newsletter
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- CompuServe's multilingual machine translation service
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- Pointer to resources on India
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- Brazilian patents data
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- Internet Global Phone
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- The Microsoft Network
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- AutoPages of Internet on the Web
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- Frank Sinatra discussed and praised.
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- On the Web: Dialog, Data-Star, ClariNet, Dun & Bradstreet, IBM
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Global Network, Sprint, Boardwatch Magazine, Der Spiegel.
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- Full text articles from Time, Vibe, and Entertainment Weekly
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- FAQ files: The How to get access to Netnews. Finger. Winsock Application.
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- Defined: JPEG, pseudo-SLIP (replaces dialup SLIP connection), NNTP server.
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- The Network Service Providers Around the World file, and other offerings.
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Version 1.7 September 19, 1994
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This update further strengthens the focus on Europe, Latin America, Africa,
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and Asia in the business application sections.
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* The World Wide Web by email, including hints on searching data bases
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on the Web by email.
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* Find information in WWW, Gopher, and ftp files through Lycos.
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* Offerings to help locate information sources on the WWW.
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* WAIS searches by email.
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* Searching Usenet's Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) texts.
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* More on Usenet by email.
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* The gophers and WWW pages of the world, sorted by country.
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* CompuServe, Dialog, Data-Star and ECHO on the WWW.
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* Read news from all countries of the world through Clarinet.
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* Data-Star is strong on European business information.
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* Microsoft on the Internet.
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* Global demography and population information.
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* Discussing Australian and New Zealand wines.
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* Images from the Vatican Library's collection of books and manuscripts.
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* Added: sources on genealogy, art from Louvre in France, The British
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Library, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the
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Council of Security and Cooperation in Europe, French news summaries,
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the latest UK news.
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* Hint: How to handle mail returned due to error in contents.
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* Hint: Receive confirmation when your Internet mail has been received.
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* Hint: Getting off that mailing list.
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* Various: relevance ranking, IBM Global Network, CD Plus, firewalls, HTML,
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Unicode, the Internet Talk Radio, Veronica by email, and more.
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A Canadian version of the handbook is available in print. Print versions
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focusing on Australia, Spain, Iceland, and Danemark are being prepared.
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Version 1.6 July 5, 1994
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This update further strengthens the focus on Latin America, Africa, and
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Asia.
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* Foreign language assistance
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* Learning foreign languages
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* Books in "other" languages
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* Six different news digests on Africa
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* New sources on China
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* Interactive Chinese Chess
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* International political and economic news from British Broadcasting
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Corporation (BBS).
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* This week's currency exchange rates
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* The Information Bank on African Development Studies (a World Bank
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project)
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* Net-happenings has "moved," and can now be searched through gopher and WWW
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* The Encyclopaedia Britannica
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* Access MCI Mail from the Internet
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* More pointers on satellites, amateur and packet radio
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* Full-motion movie trailers from Warner Bros, MCA/Universal, and
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Walt Disney Pictures.
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* Heart, lung, and blood diseases resource
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* The Internet Poet Archive
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* An Internet clipping service
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* Parenthood
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* Finding lists of periodic postings (FAQs) to Usenet
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* QWK, .tar-files, more on compression, ftp via Gopher, finding the best
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gophers in the world, more on GopherMail, IRC, Linux, Lynx, WAIS FAQ,
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the WebCrawler database of WWW information pages, Internet tools. . .
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Version 1.5 May 11, 1994
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This update further strengthens the focus on Latin America, Africa, and Asia
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for business applications and holiday travelling in particular, and has new
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European pointers.
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* New section on "Using email gateways to Internet resources."
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* The Stanford Netnews Filtering Service.
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* Resources on Sudan, Czech economy, NAFTA, The Maastricht Treaty, UNICEF,
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Africa,
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* English language database on Japanese technology.
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* More on Japan: Yomiuri Shimbun, Tradstat, Dow Jones News/Retrieval's
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offerings, Teikou's company profiles.
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* La Vie Francaice, La Stampa, Wall Street Journal Europe, Nouvel
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Economiste.
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* The Islamic Computer Resource Guide, and information on Qualam.
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* Telnet to CompuServe.
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* EUnet Traveller - for easy access to the Internet while in Europe.
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* Reading encyclopedias online.
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* The RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) Network Newsletter.
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* Sending faxes through the Internet.
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* More on MIME and BASE64.
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* More on cryptography.
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* Law-related resources on the Internet.
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* Internet VoiceChat.
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Version 1.4 March 10, 1994
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This update focuses on Latin America, Africa, and Asia for business
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applications in particular, while strengthening the European pointers.
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* New sources for news, conferences, gophers, and more for China, Japan, the
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Middle East, Israel, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Australia/New Zealand,
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Brazil, Mexico, xUSSR countries, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, and other
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countries. Includes some Spanish language services.
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* Network Service Providers Around the World
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* The Directory of Information Services in China
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* The KOI-8 (Russian/Cyrillic character) coding scheme.
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* The No>m standard code (Vietnam)
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* Some official information sources for the United States and Canada.
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* Pointers for Cello, Lynx, Mosaic, PPP, SLIP, FreeWAIS, Winsock, Binhex
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* Special Internet Connections
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* Updated pointers to the WHOIS service, the Interest Groups List of Lists,
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NET-RESOURCES, and RFCs.
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Version 1.3 January 8, 1994
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* Using gopher services by email (Gophermail)
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* Using Internet's finger by email
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* Using Internet's ping by email
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* Online store with over 260,000 book titles,
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* Online store offering over 80,000 CD records
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* References to CCITT replaced by ITU-TSS. Revised ITU information.
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* The Gale Directory of Databases
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* China Import/Export news
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* CitiBank Global Report
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* Many new sources for music lovers
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* The NewNIR-L mailing list.
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* Majordomo
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* MIME
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* Added references to several Frequently Asked Questions files
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* More on Internet "demos",
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* More on RFCs
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* More books.
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* The Sierra Network is now The ImagiNation Network.
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* URL (Universal Resource Locater), and HTTP.
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* Irving Kind's Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
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* The text has been reformated. Margins are now 1-76. Single-spaced
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text with double-spacing between paragraphs, and with full-block
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text rather than indentations at the beginning of paragraphs.
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* Readers can now send their credit card number by PGP encrypted
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email when registering.
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Version 1.2 November 1, 1993
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* Added the home-ed mailing list, and The University of Phoenix's
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accredited degrees through courses conducted online
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* Corrected addresses for lists previously at RPIECS
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* The SIMTEL20 software library was closed. The software
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is now available through the SimTel Software Repository.
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* The Maastricht Treaty on European Union
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* Directory of scholarly electronic conferences
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* More science fiction, music, and The CIA World Factbook.
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* Forums for Mark Twain, Tolkien, - and the bizarre
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* Tarzan and Frankenstein (books)
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* Searching Webster's dictionary
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* Eunet Deutchland GmbH
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* Travel Britain Online
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* The World Health Organization
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* Advantis (IBM)
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* "The Totally Unofficial List of Internet Muds"
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* More WordPerfect support
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* Financial Times' thirty international business reports.
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* Sources on business in Mexico from Dow Jones.
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* Forums for international trade and management.
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* Trends: Interactive newspapers. Global telephone. Email by voice phone.
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CD-ROM supported communications.
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* New books and magazines.
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* Information about Compress, Demos, Jughead, RIP, SNA, .TAR, and .Z
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Version 1.1. September 1, 1993
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* Added The Internet Resource Directory for Educators
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* Chinese character codes (Big5/GuoBiao)
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* Hytelnet
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* Netfind
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* TRICKLE
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* Access to WHOIS
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* InterNIC's automated mail service
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* South African Bibliographic and Information Network
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* Added CHPOEM-L, and some other conferences/forums
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* Continental Cablevision's Internet connection
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* Updated addresses to all APC host computers
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* Updated text about CIX (England)
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* Email to Advantis IBMmail
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* New address to SuperNet/SuperBBS
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* New phone numbers/NUA numbers to TWICS (Japan)
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* Expanded on computer viruses
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* (Most) registration rates are now in US$.
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* The TOW support forum
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* Addresses to the book's Danish and German publishers
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* Added books/magazines to appendix 5
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Version 1.0. August 5, 1993
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Initial release as shareware.
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For information, contact Odd de Presno at opresno@extern.uio.no .
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