Internet for the Layman

includes some cool locations

Information collated from a series of articles by William West in the Catholic Weekly (Australian)

References of volume, issue and date provided

Prepared and maintained by Larry Czarnik

Errors and exceptions omitted, but please mail any suggested corrections and improvements to czarnik@compuserve.com

Format change - Since the Hyperlink displays the WWW address when touched, there is no reason to include the WWW address as text on this page. All items that include a Hyperlink have been adjusted. Larry, 95JN14.

Last updated - 17 Oct 2002 04:25:00 +1000. Previous updates - 95JN14, 99MR23.

Caution ! Some links no longer valid and marked with

1) Catholic Weekly V53#3028 94NV09

	a) Next Online - Service by Rolling Stone mag publishers w/ music & video tracks online.
	b) Catholic Uni of America - databank with full text papal encyclicals & info on religious orders & other church bodies.
	c) CRnet - Catholic Resource Network includes on-line Catholic encyclopedia.
	d) Internet Yellow pages - 450 pgs of Internet addresses.

2) Catholic Weekly V53#3029 94NV16

	a) Ozemail browser = Terrazzo from #3034) - Dialix - Next Online - Magnadata (ftp.magnadata.com.au from #3032)- Microplex - Pegasus - (Microsoft in future w/ Windows 95 & Microsoft Internet Connection from #3034).
	b) The author of the Catholic Weekly articles - William West - feel free to contact by E-mail.

3) Catholic Weekly V53#3030 94NV23

	a) Ozemail online rego if own comms s/w and discount if mention CW.
	b) Email - Telnet - Anonymous FTP - Archie - WAIS - Gopher - WWW.
	c) Vatican Exhibition has inline .gif pointing to jpg (JPEG 100-400KB each) (from #3032)
	d) Time Magazine
	e) The Louvre (Main)
	f) The Louvre & classical music (from #3033)
	g) Satellite weather maps of Australia
	h) Palo Alto Weekly 1st US online using WWW
	i) (Guide to Paris's Museums - cafe's - etc. - no address given)

4) Catholic Weekly V53#3031 94NV30

	a) Electronic Newsstand (Gopher) = USA Today - The Economist.
	b) Unnamed service provides The New Republic - The New Yorker
	c) Commercial News Service includes The Gate = San Francisco Chronicle & SF Examiner.
	d) Others - Daily News Online (Halifax) & The Detroit Free Press & GT Online (Colorado) & Gazeta On-line (Gazeta Wyborcza - Warsaw) & St Petersburg Press (Russia).
	e) Clarinet services (clari) on many subjects
	f) Nexus gives AAP database access to stories from past 2 years up to last 24 hours.
	g) Sydney Morning Herald is qtrly on CDROM & daily online through Reuters.

5) Catholic Weekly V53#3032 94DC07

	a) NON-NET RELATED - The Threshold of Hope - John Paul II & Jonathan Cape - London 94 - hc 224pp $19.95.
	b) NON-NET RELATED - Prayers and devotions from Pope John Paul II - Viking/Penguin hc 466pp $19.95.
	c) Lynx = text only for WWW w/ return on word image option to save to local file (to host then copy to PC need local view s/w).
	d) Netscape uses PPP (Point to Point) or SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol).
	e) Chameleon has image access while on line.

6) Catholic Weekly V53#3033 94DC14 (was to be last of 6 re: Info Superhighway)

	a) Fine Art Forum Online
	b) The Gallery contains graphics & 3D images *LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.*
	c) Australian National Uni - Art history *LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.*
	d) ArtSource on art & architecture & points to many others.
	e) lib2.fisher.su.oz.au (Uni Syd Fisher Library Telnet address - use - login - user-id - library2 - pwd - RETURN & Welcome - RETURN for library catalogue service - w/ search ability).

7) Catholic Weekly V53#3034 94DC21

	a) Modems = Avtec - Maestro - Banksia - Netcomm AutoModem E11f 28.8 $650.
	b) Browser built into Warp (OS/2).
	c) W West there is a Font Size = 2 as default in netscape.ini vs IBM supposed better.

8) Catholic Weekly V53#3035 94DC28 (no Info Superhighway article).

9) Catholic Weekly V54#3036 95JA04

	a) NON-NET RELATED - Bank charges hit poor.
	b) NON-NET RELATED - Pope John Paul II as Time magazine Man of the Year 1994.
	c) Best to find what's new on WWW and archive pointers
	d) PC Week mag full text + Rumour Central *LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.*
	e) Dinosaurs at Uni IL *LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.*
	f) Society of Women Engineers NY *LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.*
	g) Forrest Gump page !
	h) Elfmaster North Pole, State of Peace, Artic
	i) Was "http://northpole.net/Santa.html", new address = Workshop of North Pole Productions Ottawa Ontario Canada, with mail to santa@northpole.net).
	j) London Daily Telegraph

10) Catholic Weekly V54#3037 95JA11 (MacKillop special, no Info Superhighway references)

11) Catholic Weekly V54#3038 95JA18

a) Recap of previous articles and some comments on developments for 1995

12) Catholic Weekly V54#3039 95JA25 (Papal visit review, no Info Superhighway references)

13) Catholic Weekly V54#3040 95FB05

	a) Ausnet - Instant Internet Access - Disk at Newsagents $9.95 (not where STD charges apply) 02 241-5888 $40 reg, $40/mo for 1 hour per day (=$1.30/hour) more hours at $10/hr
	b) Geko.Com - $30/mo 20MB download, more at $1/MB (if not more than 1MB download/hour effective rate = > $1.00/hr 02 968-4333.
	c) Magnadata 02 264-7326 $40/mo includes 20MB of download and no online time limit, good support.
	d) Oz-Email $8.00/hr biz hours, $5.00/hr after 6pm 02 437-5500, good support.
	e) Nexus text only for schools limit 2400 bps $6.00/hr peak + Austpac (about $6.00/hr), off peak $8/hr for each, 08 243-5606.
	f) Pegasus $95 rego, $25/mo includes 2hrs access, more at $6.00hr, Austpac available, specials for schools, 008 81-2812.
	g) Dialix $0 reg, $0.60/hr, $0.01/KB download, text only, needs Unix knowledge, sluggish 02 948-6995.
	h) Microplex text = $0.65/hr, full Internet = $3.50/hr 02 888-3685.

14) Catholic Weekly V54#3041 95FB12

	a) Modems 28,800 $499, 14,400 $299, 9600 as for 14,400.
	b) Modem Super Store, Concord 02 743-1144 (corrected from #3044), Mark Kofahl - Director of Marketing
	c) V.fast vs V.34, compression, error correction, speed vs needs.

15) Catholic Weekly V54#3042 95FB19

	a) NON-NET RELATED - Double exposure picture of MacKillop ceremonies by Kevin Fitzpatrick.
	b) NY Times, Wall Street Journal, London Daily Telegraph *LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.*
	c) Reference duplicated in #3032 item (c) that lists popular newspapers and magazines.
	d) Multimedia Newsstand
	e) Transactions using credit cards not secure.
	f) The Tech Classics Archive source of many books including Christian books in electronic format.
	g) Macmillan USA Information Superlibrary - no web reference.
	h) Disability Mall
	i) Alzheimer's Disease
	j) 96 Summer Olympics merchandise LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.
	k) Free online dictionary of computing
	l) Phoenix Police Department Silent Witness Program

16) Catholic Weekly V54#3043 95FB26 (MacKillop souvenir edition - no Info Superhighway references).

17) Catholic Weekly V54#3044 95MR05

	a) Joint Venture - Reed Books & Oz-Email (Ednet) Discussion of Abortion with bookmarks to both pro-life and pro-abortion discussions and online version of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae.
	b) Lifelinks LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.
	c) Prolife news LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.

18) Catholic Weekly V54#3045 95MR12 (No Info Superhighway references).

19) Catholic Weekly V54#3046 95MR19

	a) European Particle Physics Laboratory (WWW developers) - Was " http://info.cern.ch" now = Virtual Library - CERN (surprising to find lots of novel & non-fiction by Catholic writers and official Church documents).
	b) Soon US Catholic Resource Network (CRnet).
	c) For searching
	d) Mail to author of Catholic Weekly article - William West - west@ozemail.com.au.

20) Catholic Weekly V54#3047 95MR26

	a) Program to restrict users to certain destinations on Internet (mainly to avoid pornography) - refer Ednet / Ozemail.
	b) Use common sense as you would vet use of TV.
	c) Best is to give young the sort of formation that will help them use their freedom wisely.
	d) Cost vs benefits, widening the gap between rich and poor.

21) Catholic Weekly V54#3048 95AP02

	a) US govt service - Education Research Information Centre (ERIC) - no WWW reference quoted.
	b) Reference duplicated in #3046 item (c) net searching

22) Catholic Weekly V54#3049 95AP09

	a) Pope John Paul II's 194 pg encyclical - Evanelium Vitea (The Gospel of Life) - sent to bishops in Europe & S America via electronic mail on 30 March.
	b) Discussion of Publishing on the Internet, PPP/SLIP.
	c) WWW links - behind each highlighted word is a http:// address.
	d) Time Magazine Australia LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help, but also check reference of USA link - #3030 (d).
	e) HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language.
	f) HTML commands written between "<" and ">", eg. letter "I" = italics and put in front of word or words, with </I> to turn off, for bold type, hr for insert line, H1, H2, H3 or H4 for headlines of different sizes, images in ".gif" or ".jpeg" inserted with G SRC=filename.
	g) Start at http://mosaic.mcom.com. HTML WP addons LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.
	h) WWW browsers need file extension .html to read as hypertext.
	i) Embedding a location - HREF=document name/A, eg. with file called timet.html, HREF="timet.html"School Timetable/A or if in school subdirectory HREF="school/timet.html"School Timetable/A.

23) Catholic Weekly V54#3050 95AP16

	a) NON-NET RELATED - Video "A Celebration of Mass" Pope John Paul II in various locations, Martin & Rosenthal Pictures P/L 03 699-6990, Fax 03 699-2205.
	b) Is Internet same as Email ? - No.
	c) CompuServe - 1 800 025-240.
	d) Off Line Email readers - PC Eudora, public domain.
	e) Anonymous FTP = anonymous at login with Email address at password. When @ in middle, it is an Email address.
	f) Catholic Christianity - list = catholic@auvm.american.edu, subscription = listserv@auvm.american.edu.
	g) Catholic Doctrine - list = catholic@sartp.gaithersburg.md.us, subscription = catholic-request@sarto.gaithersburg.md.us.
	h) Catholic Evangelism - list = catholic-action@cvpnet.chi.il.us, subscription = catholic-action-request@cvpnet.chi.il.us.
	i) Catholicism - AnonymousFTP: Address:ftp.spies.com Path:/Library/Religion/Catholic/*, Gopher: Name: Internet Wiretap Address: wiretap.spies.com Choose:Wiretap Online Library \| Religion \| Catholic.

24) Catholic Weekly V54#3051 95AP23

	a) http://www.ozemail.com.au/observer The Australian Observer magazine.
	b) Reference duplicated in #3044 item (a) for Reed Books.
	c) Catalogue of Electronic Texts
	d) Virtual Online University LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.

25) Catholic Weekly V54#3052 95AP30 (No Info Superhighway references).

26) Catholic Weekly V54#3053 95MY07

a) Vocation special - A Cyber-friar - Fr Martin on Blackfriars

27) Catholic Weekly V54#3054 95MY14

	a) The latest offerings in CD-Roms and modems - Microfax Modems (02 918-3099) - receive and STORE faxes independently of a computer as well as a modem (2400 data/9600 fax - < $250).
	b) Data Pump by Diamond Technologies - low end good value for $, high end includes voice modem (answering machine capabilities).
	c) Similarly - Netcomm.
	d) High speed modems + new software allows speaking over Internet for less $.

28) Catholic Weekly V54#3055 95MY21

a) Windows '95 - Microsoft Network (locally On Australia) vs Internet, security vs open ended, local vs overseas content.

29) Catholic Weekly V54#3056 95MY28 (Currently misplaced)

30) Catholic Weekly V54#3057 95JN04

	a) Parishes move into cyberspace - 3 pts of technology - 1) relief of administrative burdens, 2) inter-parish networking and efficient delivery of educational and ministry training - The Catholic Messenger - Devenport Iowa, USA.
	b) Information overload as more info becomes available on the WWW.
	c) British Labour Party LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help
	d) Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, Oxford UK publishers
	e) Christie's Fine Art Auctioneers LINK ERROR - Send mail if you can help.
	f) English sites in Tokyo Japan

LINKS UNTESTED FROM THIS POINT - PROCEED WITH CAUTION !

	g) Classical Music on the Net Austin TX, USA.
	h) Global Encyclopedia Seattle WA, USA.
	i) Windows 95 Info Page, Duxbury MA, USA.
	j) Internet Commerce/Multimedia News Jamesburg NJ, USA.
	k) News about China Hong Kong.
	l) Goethe-Institut Munich, Germany.
	m) DisasterNet Phoenix AZ, USA.
	n) Cannes.on.Cyber Tokyo, Japan.
	o) Citizen Kane Art Gallery SanDiego CA, USA.
	p) Catalogue of Persian/Iranian cultural books (in English)
	q) The Market Research Centre Glendale CA, USA.
	r) Miami-Dade Community College English Dept. Miami FL, USA.
	s) Monterey Bay Properties Santa Cruz CA, USA.
	t) Movieweb West Los Angeles CA, USA.
	u) The Open University Orlando FL, USA.
	v) So You Wanna Be a Screenwriter ? Portland OR, USA.
	w) Stanford Uni Election on the Web Stanford CA, USA.
	x) Wonderful World of Chiropractic,Tallahassee FL, USA.
	y) WWWChess 1.0, Research Triangle Park NC, USA

31) Catholic Weekly V54#3058 95JN11

	a) What can Internet offer ? & How do I get on ? means What sort of services am I really interested in ?
	b) Mostly only e-mail - Dialix (02 948-6995) $0.01/min & $0.01/kilobyte (KB) sent.
	c) Graphics, pictures & sound - Oz-Email (02 437-5500) $25.00 startup, $0/mo, $10.00/hr (7am-6pm) and $5.00 overnight, special $40.00/mo with restrictions.
	d) Difficult to get online with Magnadata - soon to be fixed with 12 more modems.
	e) Access One - $38.00/mo to 40 hrs/mo max 10hrs/week.
	f) AUSNET (02 241-5888) $40.00/mo for 40 hrs - but only 1hr/day !!
	g) Not overseas modems !

32) Catholic Weekly V54#3059 95JN18 - Watch this space !

Last update - 24 Jul 2006 18:10:41 +1000 , . Previous update - 95JN14, 99MR23, 2001JA02