Reference Information
Black Box Reference Center
http://www.blackbox.com/bb/referl.html/tigf012
Online catalog for learning more about networking topics. Includes links to communications,
networking, networking technologies. wireless communications, and more. A glossary
of data communications terms is the perfect resource for you if you want to know
what Facility to Full-Duplex Ethernet (FED) means.
Guide To Network Resource Tools, The
http://www.earn.net/gnrt/notice.html
The Internet has come a long way in the past two or three years. However, the Internet
is more than just the World Wide Web. You can read about searching engines, e-mail,
FTP, and other services available on the Internet at this location.
High Bandwidth Web Page
http://plainfield.bypass.com/~gzaret/hiband.html
Remember in the old days when your television received only three stations, but you
wished you had more? Now that you have more, do you wish you had even more? If so,
come to the High Bandwidth Web Page and read about how higher bandwidth on the Internet
is analogous to more television channels. Just think, in a short time you could be
watching the Brady Bunch on the Internet.
High Performance Networks and Distributed Systems Archive
http://hill.lut.ac.uk/DS-Archive
Read about current news in the high performance networks and distributed systems
business. You'll be on the edge of your seat reading about gigabit testbeds, advanced
telecommunications programs at LLNL, and the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology.
A comical sidebar link about the divisions between current ATM supporters is provided
as well, called HotWired's "Netheads vx. Bellheads.
SunSITE Communications Archive
http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/dbarberi/papers
Interested in reading about virtual communities, chats, IRC (Internet Relay Chat),
MUDs, and MOOs? Hit this site and read through the papers collected here. You can
also link to the white paper discussion called "TinySex is Safe Sex," by Claire Benedikt.