Reading web by email

[be404@yfn.ysu.edu (Adalbert Goertz)]

Adalbert Goertz:
 
How to surf the Web by eMail.
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You no doubt have heard or read about the WorldWideWeb or
www, w3 or simply the WEB.
You have also assumed that you need Mosaic or NetScape or some kind of browser
software to access the Web.
But unfortunately, you have just a simple Apple2e and you dont do graphics,
just Appleworks or just text stuff.
And you dont want to spend much or any money to buy a high speed modem, and the
freenets or Sailor dont handle more than 2400 bauds anyway which would make any
graphics file transfer VERY SLOW, right?
Then the name LYNX pops up which is a Web browser with no graphics capability,
just text, and that makes you listen up. Is that something I can use?
Since you dont know, you forget about that again (altho you shouldnt, because
some freenets offer the Lynx route to the Web like Youngstown Freenet, the only
one apparently which takes new accounts from out of Ohio).
So, what can you do to access the Web?
First, you have to have an internet eMail box.
Second, you have to know what Web site or document you want to access. Web
sites start with http://...,
Web documents also end with ....html.
There is a server which permits you to ask for delivery of Web documents to
your mail box:
  agora@www.undp.org
 
So, to get a http://...html document, send mail to
  agora@www.undp.org
with the message (subject ignored)
  send http://....html.
After a while you get the document from agora@www.undp.org
or some help message.
 
Assignment:
Send message to agora@www.undp.org
with the message (subject ignored)
  send  http://www.hypermall.com/History/
 
 
Happy surfing.
Adalbert Goertz, be404@yfn.ysu.edu
 
 
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*************** Adalbert Goertz *******************************
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