[11700] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
FARNET stories project,"51 Reasons"
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Thu Apr 14 15:30:45 1994
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:04:06 -0500
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From: stonem@farnet.org
Have you ever been asked, "What is the Internet?" Have you ever wondered
what other networkers are using the Internet for?
In February, 1993, a call went out for the submission of stories by
FARNET (The Federation of American Research Networks). Over 150
submissions were gathered from across the United States, and beyond.
FARNET is making a selection of these stories available as a printed book,
"51 Reasons: How We Use the Internet and What It Says About the Information
Superhighway". The book provides concrete examples of how the network is
being used to further research, education, industry and manufacturing, the
health services industry, and more.
In cooperation with The Coalition for Networked Information, FARNET is
making the full collection of stories available on the Internet using three
different networked information retrieval tools managed by the Coalition
(FTP, Gopher, and the BRS/SEARCH full-text retrieval system):
There are three ways to access the FARNET 51 reasons success stories online.
>via Gopher
> URL:gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/11/cniftp/miscdocs/farnet
>
>via FTP
> (Note, this is only the index of the other stories, each of
> which is stored separately):
> URL:ftp://ftp.cni.org:/CNI/documents/farnet/stories-index
>
>interactive searching can be done via BRS/SEARCH
> telnet a.cni.org
> login: brsuser #all lower case, no password required
> set terminal type #vt100 is default
> choose #1 -- Select/Search Database
> enter database FRNT
>
The hardcopy costs $22.95, including shipping and handling. Checks or
money orders (sorry we cannot do invoicing) can be sent to,
FARNET Inc.
114 Watham St. Suite 12
Lexington, MA 02173
For additional information about FARNET or the FARNET stories project:
Martha Stone-Martin
FARNET
stories@farnet.org
For additional information about the Coalition's network services or
the uniform resource locators (URLs) used to describe them:
Craig A. Summerhill
Coalition for Networked Information
craig@cni.org
