In The Clouds - The Easiest Way To Get Information To Your Desktop

What is The Internet?

• The Internet is the foot-path of the Information Highway -- leading the way in linking information providers and users around the globe.
• The Internet is the network of networks which follow a set of rules known as the "Internet Protocol (IP)".
• The Internet links more than 2.2 million computer hosts in 70 countries; you can send electronic mail to about 150 countries - and these numbers are growing faster and faster.
• The Internet is neither run by any person nor any organization. Instead it is a collective effort of many (30000) organizations each responsible for some subset of the net with the shared goal of providing global communications and network services.
• The Internet can be used for
  • sending or receiving electronic mail
  • participating in special interest groups
  • reading or writing for electronic digests and journals
  • searching online library catalogs around the world
  • acquiring text and program files from remote computers

Basic and Advanced Internet-Tools (How do I get infos from the net ?)

telnet

• lets you connect to other computer systems
• you have to pass a login procedure requiring user ids and passwords

ftp

• transfers files from other computers to your computer (or vice versa)
• uses some simple commands for retrieving files (cd, get, put, bin)
• many sites allow anonymous ftp, so you don't need an user id

archie

• service to locate files in the net
• contains several millions of indexed file names from anonymous ftp-sites
• filename-database (names of documents or software packages)
• whatis-database (descriptions of documents or software packages)

gopher("universe of menues")

• allows users to explore, search and retrieve information distributed over the net
• distributed document delivery service using a client-server model
• employs a hierarchical outline to make browsing and searching sources of information quick and uncomplicated
• intermediate nodes are directories or links, leaf nodes are documents
• keyword search using the VERONICA service

www/mosaic ("universe of documents")

• information system based on hypertext
• distributed document delivery service using a client-server model
• uses hypertext to make browsing and searching sources of information quick and uncomplicated
• integrates text, graphics and sound as well as links to other resources on its pages
• the user moves from document to document which are linked to each other through marked keywords

List of interesting sites for nonlinear research

Newsgroups

• alt.fractals.pictures
• sci.fractals
• alt.binaries.pictures.fractals
• sci.nonlinear
• comp.theory.self-org-sys
• alt.fractals
• comp.theory.dynamic-sys

Electronic Conference Lists

• AUTOPOIESIS LIST

  send a request to subscribe to Kent Palmer: palmer@world.std.com

• CHAOPSYC

  (Society for Chaos in Psychology and the Life Sciences)

  listproc@moose.uvm.edu

  subscribe chaopsyc yourfirstname yourlastname

• COMPLEX SYSTEMS OPEN FORUM

  listserv@life.anu.edu.au

  subscribe complex yourfirstname yourlastname

• FRAC-L

  (computergraphical generation of "fractals" and a general dialogue on fractals and chaos)

  listserv@gitvm1.bitnet or listserv@gitvm1.gatech.edu

  subscribe frac-l yourfirstname yourlastname

• NONLIN-L

  (Economic Nonlinear Dynamics list) listserv@list.nih.gov

  subscribe nonlin-l yourfirstname yourlastname

• CHAOS NETWORK

  charges a fee to join, information from chaos@tmn.com

• Nonlinear Science Peoprint Bulletin Board

  (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  Dynamical systems, chaos, quantum chaos, topological dynamics, cycle expansions, turbulence, propagation: mail to chao-dyn@xyz.lanl.gov

  Pattern formation, coherent structures, Solitons : mail to patt-sol@xyz.lanl.gov

  Computational methods, time series analysis, signal processing, wavelets, lattice gases: mail to comp-gas@xyz.lanl.gov

  Adaptation, interacting particle systems, self-organizing systems, computation theory, machine learning: mail to adap-org@xyz.lanl.gov

  For all of the above, send mail to nlin-sys@xyz.lanl.gov

ftp

• Non-linear dynamics archive
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
• Archive for papers in nonlinear science
• Time series archive, analysis and forecasting
• Complex Systems Information Service
• lumpi

gopher

• life.anu.edu.au
• gopher.santafe.edu

telnet

• ask (Uni Karlsruhe) (login: ask, password: ask)

www

• list of chaos in the www
• www infos