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From: cavrak@kira.UUCP (Steve Cavrak)
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Subject: Re: "Taking Advantage of the Internet"
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.014159.21730@uvm.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 01:41:59 GMT
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From article <1991Mar13.153338.10108@cs.widener.edu>, by brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe):
> 
>  I was wondering if anyone's ever written up something like this, for
> an undergraduate audience? (aka most of them haven't the slightest
> idea what the network is, but would get into it if they were given the
> right information)
> 

One thing to do is to teach a short course on what a network is -- 
maybe starting with "vn" or "tass" or even "TheNews" (on a Mac).

You can show them what a network is, and then pick up copies (from the
network) of the HitchHikers Guide (using Archie at quiche.cs.mcgill.ca
to find a copy?), or the Nearnet Pocket Guide, or even (Save the Baby
Trees) the Internet Resource Guide.  Take them on a visit to the Electronic
Village (Cleveland Ohio!), etc.

Not much of this requires Unix -- you'll even run into Big Blue Iron on
the network - much of it can be done from PC's and Macs !  

See ya
Steve