The User's Directory of Computer Networks [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: May 18, 1990

Your map through the network jungle.


Here's how to track down virtually every network available to academics and researchers. This new book, with its detailed compilation of host- level information, provides everything you need to locate resources, send mail to colleagues and friends
worldwide, and answer questions about how to access major national and international networks. Extensively cross- referenced information on ARPANET/MILNET, BITNET, CSNET, Esnet, NSFNET, SPAN, THEnet, USENET, and loads of others is all provided. Included
are detailed lists of hosts, site contacts, administrative domains, and organizations. Plus, a tutorial chapter with handy reference tables reveals electronic mail 'secrets' that make it easier to take advantage of networking.

Product Details

• Paperback: 630 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press (May 18, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555580475
• ISBN-13: 978-1555580476
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,658,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The way the net used to be, June 28, 1998

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Edward Vielmetti (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The User's Directory of Computer Networks (Paperback)

Accurate and thorough description of the U.S. part of the public Internet circa 1990. Good historical document; lots of the people mentioned in the text are still hard at work keeping the net running.

3.0 out of 5 stars Great way to peer back at the Internet before it became the Internet, July 18, 2005

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Travis M. Owens (Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The User's Directory of Computer Networks (Paperback)

The concept behind this book is very interesting and it's something that wouldn't be possible in today's Internet. It's a directory of every server and network on the Internet before people knew what the Internet was and before the web existed.

For the most part it's just a text directory with hostnames (or IP addresses), the admin and their phone number. But the interesting part are the sprinkle of network maps that show all spokes of each network from college to college along with the connection speed of each line. Please note this book lists all major domains: .MIL, .EDU, .GOV. etc.

From a pre-internet aspect, it's very interesting, but outside of the maps themselves, the book doesn't hold much interest.