Re: internet with a apple IIGS

[joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn)]

[The following article originally appeared, in a slightly different
form, in Shareware Solutions II, the bi-monthly Apple II oriented
newsletter published by Joe Kohn. For information about Shareware
Solutions II, contact Joe at joko@crl.com, or at 166 Alpine St, San
Rafael, CA 94901. Or if you already have access to the world wide
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The Apple II And The Internet
By Joe Kohn. Copyright (c) 1995-1996 by Joe Kohn. All Rights
Reserved.

Within the past 2 years, the World Wide Web has transformed the
Internet from a difficult-to-use UNIX based system that was mainly
utilized by brave computer nerds to the user friendly system of
today. Despite the fact that most of the media hype of the past 2
years seems to center on "surfing the net" using NetScape for
Macintosh and PC computers, Apple II users also "surf the net" using
a text based interface named "lynx."

All that's required to connect up to the Internet and use lynx is a
"UNIX Shell Account" with an Internet Service Provider ($20 or less
per month for unlimited access), a fast modem ($59-$139), and
telecommunications software that supports what is known as VT-100
emulation (ProTerm costs approx. $70 via mail order).

For me, accessing the World Wide Web with Lynx has opened up a whole
new world. In many ways, Lynx has liberated me from the confusion of
trying to find information on the net. It's allowed me to freely roam
through the corridors of the Smithsonian, to take a virtual guided
tour of the Kremlin, to see digitized photos from the first US
spacecraft to visit the Moon in over two decades, to make travel
plans, to see the Shoemaker-Levy comet in all its celestial glory,
and to easily download Apple II software and acquire Apple II
information.

Lynx has provided a user friendly "front end" to all the wondrous
glories that exist on the Internet. It's given me easy access, and
allows me to roam the highway and byways of cyberspace, with no fear
of ever getting lost. Lynx has turned me into a cybernaut, and has
magically transported me to a brave new world - a world filled with
wonders unimaginable in the past!

We read of the "information super highway" as being some
super-network of the future, but with Lynx, that highway has already
been paved, and it reaches the far corners of the globe. With Lynx,
we can already access the total accumulated knowledge of all mankind.

With Lynx, we can customize the way we use the Internet. In a sense,
we have been given the skeleton keys to the world's knowledge, and
we're free to use those keys to open up the previously closed doors
of museums and libraries, galleries and bookstores, even the hallowed
halls of congress.

With Lynx, we can hypertext our way through academic treatises and
partake in light hearted humor. We can read interactive books and
become virtual tourists.

We have been liberated from the Internet's sometimes confusing UNIX
command structure. With Lynx, a first time computer user or a net
newbie can experience the same awe that the Internet provides to the
long time net veteran.

The World Wide Web is the most amazing thing you'll ever see!

Once you've used Lynx, your life will be forever changed. If you
think back to when you first got your Apple II, and the excitement
you felt then, you'll feel that same joy and elation on the World
Wide Web!

It's the greatest thing that has ever happened on the Internet. It
gives the Internet a truly user-friendly face for the first time. If
knowledge is indeed power, the World Wide Web makes us all kings and
queens. It makes each of us the curator of all the world's museums
and the chief librarian of the Library of Congress. It puts us in
control of what we want to learn. It's the world's greatest
university, open to all. In fact, it's all the universities and
museums and bookstores of the world.

Knowledge wants to be free, and with the World Wide Web, knowledge is
freely available!

The World Wide Web proves to us that the Cold War is over, and that
the inhabitants of earth are truly brothers and sisters in the
current Information Age. With the click of an arrow key, you can
visit World Wide Web "Home Pages" for Russia and the Ukraine. You can
visit the Vatican, or open up NASA's computers to learn about things
you'll never see in the newspaper. You can read e-zines, and whether
you like cult movies, Jimi Hendrix, Alice In Wonderland or Alice In
Chains...it's all there waiting to be discovered by you.

In my humble opinion, the World Wide Web is the most phenomenal,
exciting, informative thing that has ever existed!

If you've never accessed the World Wide Web, it's time to fasten your
seat belt, and to take an exciting journey into the future! Just turn
on your computer, tune in to the Internet, and link up to the World
Wide Web!

But, first a word from our sponsors...

WORLD WIDE WEB INITIATIVE

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is the universe of network-accessible
information, an embodiment of human knowledge. It is an initiative
started at CERN, now with many participants. It has a body of
software, and a set of protocols and conventions. W3 uses hypertext
and multimedia techniques to make the web easy for anyone to roam,
browse, and contribute to.

And, now we return to our regular broadcast...

There are currently several ways to access Lynx:

If Lynx has already been installed on your Internet Service
Provider's host computer, just type the word lynx from your shell, in
the exact same way you'd enter any other Unix-based Internet program
such as ftp, telnet, mail, pico or elm.

If your System Administrator is unaware of Lynx, have no fear. You
can use Telnet to access it. Use Telnet to open a connection to
hnsource.cc.ukans.edu and log in as www

Once you take the above steps, I guarantee that your life will be
forever changed for the better!!

Joe Kohn
Publisher, Shareware Solutions II

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