Zen and the Art of the Internet

Zen and the Art of the Internet
Copyright (c) 1992 Brendan P. Kehoe
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Zen and the Art of the Internet A Beginner's Guide to the Internet First Edition January 1992
by Brendan P. Kehoe
This is revision 1.0 of February 2, 1992. Copyright (c) 1992 Brendan P. Kehoe
The composition of this booklet was originally started because the Computer Science department at Widener University was in desperate need of documentation describing the capabilities of this great new Internet link we obtained.
It's since grown into an effort to acquaint the reader with much of what's currently available over the Internet. Aimed at the novice user, it attempts to remain operating system neutral —-little information herein is specific to Unix, VMS, or any other environment. This booklet will, hopefully, be usable by nearly anyone.
A user's session is usually offset from the rest of the paragraph, as such:
prompt> command The results are usually displayed here.