1) INTRODUCTION
2) WHAT ABOUT PPP AND MOSAIC?
3) WHAT HOST SHOULD I USE?
4) WHAT KINDS OF INTERNET SERVICES CAN I ACCESS THROUGH A UNIX HOST
ON MY ///?
5) HOW MUCH SHOULD IT COST?
6) HOW DO I TRANSFER INFORMATION FROM THE INTERNET TO MY ///?
7) WHAT ACCESS /// AND HOST TERMINAL SETTINGS SHOULD I USE?
8) WHY USE THE /// FOR INTERNET ACCESS?
9) WHERE DO I FIND ACCESS /// OR THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER?
10) CLOSE: SURFIN THE NET
1) Introduction
With the huge amount of media
attention given to the Internet, it's sometimes difficult to sort
through the endless articles about the latest new nifty Web page, X
Corporation's latest electronic mail/groupware package for that
three-letter computer, etc. to find the gem that will help us really
improve our lives. Yet, as one of the people involved in bringing the
Internet to thousands of users, I can safely say that there ARE gems
out there, and your Apple /// (with a bit of help from a host system)
can find them for you.
2) But what about PPP? What about
Mosaic?
It's doubtful that PPP (Point to
Point Protocol, a popular method used to connect personal computers
and small computer networks to the Internet over a modem, ISDN, or
leased-line connection) or popular Internet navigation software such
as Netscape or Mosaic will ever run on the Apple ///. For one, most
of these tools have been written, for good or ill, for computers with
large memory address spaces. While the Apple /// can take us to 512
kilobytes of memory, today's graphics-rich World Wide Web pages need
a browser program (and computer system) with address space in the
megabytes.
