The Online World resources handbook
Revision History

Version 3.5 July 28, 1999 - ISBN 82-7820-017-3

Highlights:

• Research: The National Library of China. Mailing list search engine. Asia-oriented search engine.  Chinese language search engines. Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web. Russian Regional Database. The Peking University Library. Newspaper archive search engine. Free encyclopedia searches.
• News: Thailand. Current Awareness Resources using Internet Audio and Video. BBC Worldwide Monitoring. Japanese Journals. Africa News Online. The Economist.
• Business: More about checking your mail when on the road. More financial links. Saudi Arabia. Tibet. China market information. Czech Economy. Russian Industry Enterprises databases. Search engine for Online Advertisers, Marketers, and E-Commerce.
• Education: Dictionary of East Asian Buddhist Terms. Automatic language translation. English grammar. English as a second language.
• After hours: Kyoto National Museum. BackGammon. Ludwig van Beethoven. More brass band related links. More about food. Flight information. Stamp. Opera database. Used music. Shareware and public domain software search engines. Sushi. Albania. KUNG Fu and Tai CHi. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Live cameras around the world. Asian art. Porsche. European rail passes. MP3. Links for photo enthusiasts.
• Health: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. Allergies. More on HIV/AIDS. Kundalini Yoga. Russia. Database of complementary and alternative medicine. More medicinal herbs. Deaf.
• Various: The Mojikyo font set. Java tutorial. The CGI Resource Index. Scripts database. More about hoaxes and desinformation. Frequently Asked Questions searches. Changing your email address. Global Internet Statistics by language. Windows 98/Windows NT. Meta-archive of non-Roman fonts. Updated list of web-by-email servers, FTP mail servers, gophermail servers, Archie servers, and SimTel FTP mirrors. Eudora filtering hints. Email for free.

Version 3.4 November 15, 1997 - ISBN 82-7820-016-5

Highlights:

• Research: The IQuest database service. Chinese books in Chinese.
• News: News only search engines. Full text search of Russian newspapers and periodicals. Top 10 news from Asia.
• Business: Japanese databases within science, technology and medicine. OECD.
• Education: More reference work links. The Francopholistes l'annuaire des listes de diffusion francophones. Virtual museums around the world. Chinese philosophy.
• After hours: German wines. Search engine for travel information.
• Health: Free MEDLINE information. More AIDS information. Herpes. Chinese medicine.
• Various: Packet radio. Virtual Helsinki 2000. IRC information. More hints for searching the web by email. Making web pages accessible to people with disabilities. Organizations prepared to host mailing lists. Lists of free NNTP servers. More meta-search agents.

Version 3.3 August 15, 1997 - ISBN 82-7820-015-7

Highlights:

• Research: Japanese language search engines. Searching NEW-LIST's notifications. Update on searching mailing lists' message archives. Searching Microsoft lists' archives. Currencies of the world. Search engines for Health topics; Games; Italian web pages; Copyrighted texts; Usenet FAQs. Animal information; UPI.
• News: Abstracted anarchist news. Russian news links.
• Business: American Express. Global population database. International organizations. China Administrative Regions GIS Data, census data, etc. Discussing Internet advertising and marketing techniques.
• Education: Discussions on the Basque culture. Spanish language. New language and translation links.
• After hours: Brass Bands. Jokes. Mailing list for Malawians. Background on countries around the world. Holidays around the world. Travel. Europe by Eurail.
• Health: Diabetes links. Blind people. Understanding headache. Human anatomy.
• Various: Win97 mailing list. Resources for Netscape webmasters; QBASIC programmers; Linux wizards. Metalist of Internet Service Providers lists sorted by country. Job searching. mIRC for chats. Internet's top-level country codes. Web browser boards. Spam. Hardware-oriented newsgroups by category. The Internet Mail Consortium.

Version 3.2 May 21, 1997 - ISBN 82-7820-014-9

Highlights:

• Research: Search engine of Russian Web pages. candinavian-oriented search engine. Search Middle East Web pages. Search India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh pages. Spanish language search engines. Searching Mailing lists and Web forums. Finding rare books. Updates: Searching LISTSERV log files. Searching all Ziff-Davis' publications in one operation.
• News: Four day weather forecast for over 3.600 cities worldwide. Latest news from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
• Business: Global population data. Banks around the world. GATT's World Trade Resource Directory Index. Watch competitors by being notified whenever a Web page changes. International trade. Emerging markets. The Arab world. Statistical information on India.
• Education: Catalogue of over 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries.
• After hours: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Music oriented mailing lists. Bridge. Directory of Buddhism on the Internet. Roadsters Muscle Cars. BMW cars. New Zealand bands. Russian movie database. Home education. Paganism and neo-paganism. Buying/selling used computers.
• Health: Diabetes. Diarrhoea. Aids. Information on drug abuse, dependence. Acupuncture. Searching the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Web space.
• Various: Information from ITU. Finger FAQ. The Virtual Library of WWW Development. File compression formats. Computer virus protection. KOI-8 and Cyrillic text processing. Information about Windows 95 and Visual Basic. Browser add-ons. Digest of Internet surveys. The European Commission's Information Society Trends newsletter. More World Wide Web by email offerings. Archie by Web. Cookies. Lynx update. Getting the Internet by balloon.

Version 3.1 Feb 28, 1997 - ISBN 82-7820-013-0

Highlights:

• Administrative: New system introduced for automatic verification of the handbook's URLs and email addresses. New search feature on the handbook's Web pages.
• Research: Searching LISTSERV log files. Geographical search engines: Europe, United Kingdom, India, Israel, South Africa. Language based search engines: Spanish, French, Japanese, German. The Invisible Web (those terabytes of data available through hidden databases). Project Gutenberg's virtual books archive. A collection of thousands of English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin texts. The Complete Guide to Online Bookstores. Meta-search agents (to search several search engines in one operation). Topic area searches. Product database for IT professionals.
• After Hours: Jimi Hendrix and U2 (Wire) mailing lists. Genealogy. New Age links. Ancient history search engine.
• Email: More on encryption.
• Business: The European Union's Market Access Sectoral and Trade Barriers Database. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Free personalized conference postings delivery service. Newsfeed about developments in the European Commission's Advanced Communications Technologies and Services programme. United States patents information.
• News: Free digests of news titles from media throughout Russia and the other CIS countries (Ukraine, Byelorussia, the Baltic States, the Trans-Caucasus and Central Asia). China Daily On the Web. Searches of current headline news as published by Chicago Tribune, CNN, Los Angeles Time, MSNBC, and The New York Times.
• Health: Allergies. Herpes.
• Various: Intranets. New links for information about the HyperText Markup Language. DOS based Web browsers and tools. Service for travellers.

Version 3.0 Dec 31, 1996 - ISBN 82-7820-012-2

Highlights:

• Research: The Japanese language version of InfoSeek. Free Gale Guide to Internet Databases. Alta Vista in Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and UK English. Apple Technical Information Library. The Politician Government Address Directory. Database of CD-ROMs. Multi-lingual information about the European Union.
• After hours: The Internet Atlas and Timezone Server. Links for computer buyers. Teach Yourself Russian Web. The Phrase Finder.
• Business: The Singapore Info-Map. Web page change notification service.
• News: Integrated Newswire's World News links. How to search for specific names, phrases or words in the past 30 days of news stories from Reuters, Business Wire and PR News Wire. ZD Net's personalized news service.
• Health: Dental related resources. Multiple sclerosis.
• Various: The Internet surveys newsletter. Books about the Internet in full text. SLiRP. More on satellite communications. Many updated links. Junk mail.

Version 2.9 Oct 31, 1996 - ISBN 82-7820-011-4

Highlights:

• Research: Excite. Infoseek. Files on the Internet. Internet's largest collection of free computer hardware/software test reports. Comprehensive index to multimedia information sources. Searching the contents of Web Frequently Asked Questions texts. Collection of searchable databases. Search for words in several dictionaries and glossaries in one operation. Australian Alta Vista.
• After hours: Japanese Sumo. The Rolling Stones mailing list. Stamps. Nigeria. Roleplaying games. Dogs. Stores that sell cheap computers.Humor and jokes.
• Business: NewsNet on the Web. The Far Eastern Economic Review. Organizacion de los Estados Americanos. U.S. Commerce Department statistics on economy, energy, foreign trade, business, and industry. Submitting your Web address to search engines and directories. Population database. Database of trading terms.
• News: All newspapers online in the United Kingdom. Computer news. Personal news search engine. Cuba. Uncensored Palestinian news. Background and source materials on breaking news stories, new online media releases (magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, etc.), journalism resources, research tools. "Individualized" news from NewsPage.
• Health: Drug database (history, effects, dangers, advice). Smoking and no-smoking mailing lists. Free searches in MEDLINE's abstracts database. Transplantations.
• Education: Tamil language and culture. The United Nation Publications's CyberSchoolBus. Exploring Ancient World Cultures. British Internet Learning Resources Directory.
• Various: Intranet discussion. The DNS resources directory. Links to radio stations around the world. Free expert help for users of Microsoft products. Bots.

Version 2.8 Aug 31, 1996 - ISBN 82-7820-010-6

Highlights:

• Maintenance update with many updated links. Chapter 14 rewritten.
• News: Database and statistics of online newspapers around the world. The largest selling business daily in India.
• Education: Building your Spanish language vocabulary. Latin American database for educators. The Official WEB Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations.
• After hours: The local time around the world just now. Bali.
• How to check your planned computer purchases before buying.
• General: Romanian language print version is being prepared. The languages of the world. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Spanish language search engine. Over 1,000 topical guides to the Internet's information resources. Extensive guides for several search engines.

Version 2.7 June 30, 1996 - ISBN 82-7820-009-2

Highlights:

• News: United Nations Daily Highlights. Japanese language NewsWatch service. The Ta Kung Pao Chinese Daily.
• Education: Undergraduate and post-graduate courses - some leading to M.Sc. - for study via the Internet. Russian dictionary with sounds and images. World history resource. The Buddhist Library.
• After hours: The Internet BONSAI Club. Traditional Turkish cinema. Alfa Romeo. Skoda cars. Gibraltar. Mongolia. Wine encyclopedia. Collecting stamps.
• Health: Guide to Internet clinical medicine resources. Comprehensive resources about cardiology, coronary care, angioplasty, heart attack, stroke, vascular disease, tachycardia, angina, cholesterol, blood pressure, heartburn, atherosclerosis, hypertension. Panic-Anxiety. Emergency medicine.
• Business: China Business News. Daily Russian news reports. Global demography and population information. Global finance information. Magazine table of contents alert service. More information sources on Post-Communist, Post Soviet Eurasia.
• Finding resources: HotBot (Alta Vista competitor). Links to over 1,500 searchable databases. Library WWW servers. Roget's Thesaurus. Finding phone numbers around the world.
• Various: CGI tutorial. Information about Intranets. More on searching databases by email. Shareware resource for Macintosh. The Internet as a calculator. Currency exchange. Parliamentary elections around the world. Internet history. Compendium of HTML elements. ADSL. How to make free phone calls/send faxes through the Internet.

Version 2.6 May 15, 1996 - ISBN 82-7820-008-4

Highlights:

• News: Free daily news about the Web. The Economist. New news alert and filtering services. The Afrique News Archive. New sources offering news from Russia and the ex-Soviet countries. Free international news via continuous feeds from Reuters, Associated Press, and others.
• Education: Online course in French. New technologies in Physics education. Australian science centre. Medical Education and Health information mailing list. The Human-Languages service. Home schooling.
• After hours: Global database for skiers. Genealogy. French cooking. TV stations and shows on the Web. The Internet Movie Database. Chess. More on planning holidays abroad.
• Health: Ageing. Cancer. Ex-smokers. The Red Cross. The Typing Injury FAQ. Alcohol and drug related issues. Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine resources.
• Business: Business news from China. Economic analyses and indicators on the main European markets. Database of agricultural data (FAO). Stock exchanges and financial information around the world. Marketing- related discussion lists and announcement groups.
• Finding resources: The Usenet address database. Finding electronic mailing lists by email. Finding FAQ files. The Gale Directory of Databases. Persian links. European Governments. General Federal Government. The Un-official Internet Book List. Finding country-specific information. The Fourth World Documentation Project.

Version 2.5 March 9, 1996 - ISBN 82-7820-007-6

Highlights:

• After hours: Egypt and Egyptology resources. The Arabian countries. Islamic. Aboriginal Art. Northern lights. Papua New Guinea. Maya indian culture. Canary Islands. Greece. Brazil. The Beatles. Frank Sinatra. Bruce Springsteen. Ludwig van Beethoven. Teatro alla Scala. The ImagiNation Network. Global directories of travel related site. Hostels. UK theatres. Global satellite TV channel chart.
• Education: For beginning learners of Japanese. Study Abroad Programs. Spanish language resources. World History.
• Health: Chinese Herbs and Health. Resources for emotional support. First aid. British resources in medicine, biosciences, health care and health management.
• Support: Top 100 computer- and software-related English language magazines. The Microsoft Support Online Knowledge Base.
• News: U.S. Government "foreign" news alert service. Newsbytes, The Times/Sunday Times, FT Profile, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters on the Web. Daily news providers around the world. Digest of articles about the Internet printed in media around the world.
• Finding resources: Finding mailing lists. Reference works in several languages. 900 searchable databases on the Internet. Electronic journals. Russian scientific and engineering publications database.
• Business: EXPORT-IMPORT-INVEST Vietnam. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Organizacion de los Estados Americanos (OEA). Japanese industry technical reports. The Scientific & Technical Information Network (STN).
• Various: Global Internet access provider catalog. Locating network tools. NewsNet by telnet. Internet statistics. Virtual reality. Links to popular browser program sites.

Version 2.4 December 31, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-006-8

Highlights:

• Watch this: Alta Vista, impressive new Web indexing service from Digital Equipment Corp. (http://www.altavista.digital.com/)
• News: Web page with with Greek newspapers. Wiener Zeitung, the oldest daily newspaper in the world. Up to the minute Arabic news (in Arabic characters). Radio Vaticana Kurznachrichten.
• Business: The Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Australian International public law resource with many links.
• After hours: Travel information on all 56 countries of the African continent.
• Comprehensive service with links to WWW servers in the former Soviet Union. The Excel support mailing list.
• Health: Mental health resources.
• Real-time audio on the Internet with RealAudio, and real-time video with VDOLive. Japanese service offering WWW by email. Anonymous remailers. The Liszt Index of Electronic Mailing Lists.
• Many updated facts, hyperlinks and pointers.

Version 2.3 October 31, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-004-1

Highlights:

• Email: Japanese service offering free World Wide Web by email using CERN's Agora software. Safety concerns when receiving mail over the Internet.
• After hours: Spanish language discussion about derechos humanos. More pointers for pet owners (hamsters, aquaria, dogs, cats). A virtual tour of Athen's Acropolis (Greece). Entry point to the cities of the world. Discovery Channel Online.
• Health: Homeopathic medicine sources. The Central Institute for the Deaf. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France.
• News: Free world news. Reuters NewMedia. Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet news. The Stupendous Ejournal and Newsletter List. News from the Czech Republic. USA Today's newsletter services on the Web. News EyeQ (Europe).
• Computer support: New Windows 95 pointers.
• Many updated facts, hyperlinks and pointers, including updated information on TRICKLE servers, and SimTel's mirror sites.
• Appendixes: ISDN pointers. Russia Online. Minitel (France). UK Online.

Version 2.2 August 22, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-003-3

Highlights:

• After hours: Punk, Rap, Rave, Rock-n-Roll, French jazz, and several other new music pointers. The central reference point for games on the Internet. Bridge game sites. Great chess site. The Spanish Wine Page. TravelWeb. Chinese language resource
• Health: Web sites for the blind and disabled. Global Programme on AIDS.
• Electronic mail: Safety concerns when receiving email. Sending anonymous mail.
• Support: Windows '95 links.
• News: New links to free news. El Periodico de Catalunya (Spain). Financial Times (United Kingdom). New source for Indian news, information, articles. More about Clarinet.
• Finding information: The DejaNews Research Service! Locating mailing lists.
• Business: New sources on Singapore. Free database of press releases.
• Various: Minitel (France) on the Internet. New Spanish and Calatan source. Navigator for Knight-Ridder's Knowledge Index. List of electronic journals about the Internet. Finland's Virtual Embassy. Many updated hyperlinks.

Version 2.1 May 31, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-002-5

Highlights:

• The move from Gopher (and Telnet) to WWW continues. Many links are updated accordingly. A similar shift from BITNET to Internet for mailing lists. Strong growth in offerings from countries outside North America.
• Added many new "After Hours" pointers, including: Forums for owners of pets (dogs, birds, cats, etc.). Links for photo enthusiasts, genealogy, popular mechanics, lyrics/music. Nintendo. WebMuseum. A large store for CDs, cassettes, videos. Chinese music, the Virtual Shareware Library.
• Sources for holiday travellers reorganized (by region), with new links for India, China, other areas. Database of French art. Unesco's World Heritage list of special cultural and natural historic sites around the world.
• Information wanted: Recommended strategy for locating information on the Web. The world's largest index to online data. Hunt in over 500 databases in one go. Recommended Internet tools. More practical hints on the use of Internet browsers. Sending mail from the Internet to an X.400 address. Free expert assistance for journalists and authors.
• Health: Forum for diabetes. Forum for all types of human allergies. New Web-page with many health related links.
• News: Commercial news at bargain prices. 20,000 stories per day from over 500 English language sources. National Indian newspaper.
• Business: Guide to international trade terms. Several new links to Japanese sources. Asian Development Bank Business Opportunities. More on China and India. Links to: MasterCard. Directory of commercial organizations on the Internet.
• The online hypertext version of the handbook is popular. The text was updated in average every second day since version 2.0.

Version 2.0 March 31, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-001-7

Highlights:

• Most Internet links changed to URLs in preparation for an online hypertext version (scheduled made public soon), - Broadcasting schedules for news in many languages. Links to a large number of U.S. newspapers, broadcast networks, magazines and publishers on the Web. New Russian news sources. Asian business magazine online. Tables of contents of the top English language magazines for computers, sports, electronic & computer games, and music & entertainment. - Free "Creating Your Own Newspaper" service.
• Round the world travel guides, maps, flags, subway navigation in several cities, printed travel handbooks, travel health information, virtual visits to European cities, museums' on the Web.
• Hypertext guide to resources on International Affairs. Reports on worldwide business practices. The Zagreb Stock Exchange. Interactive, live chats in private virtual meeting rooms on the net.
• Searching over 100 computer publications, 10,000 Internet newsgroups, and 200,000 World Wide Web.
• Distribution service for newsletters on the Internet.
• Usenet's Frequently Asked Questions texts on medicine-related topics. New pointers for those interested in AIDS, diabetes. A comprehensive guide to Internet Clinical Medicine resources. A chronic fatigue syndrome Web site. 3-dimensional digitized images of the human body. Powerful search engines tied to health/medicine areas.
• Resource for Macintosh users.
• Database with information on various disciplines of engineering, from marine to chemical to electrical to nuclear.
• Catalog of full-text electronic texts on the Internet.
• New address to the WWW by email service.
• Auto-logon to the Internet using Trumpet Winsock.
• Usenet: comp.archives' collections of free software. The FAQ "How to get access to NetNews (Usenet)?"
• WWW pointers: Penthouse Magazine, Playboy, Porsche cars, Sony's music and movies. Europe Online S.A.

Version 1.9 January 30, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-000-9

Highlights:

• Many new African sources.
• Travel and News by continent. Interesting GO-pages. New free Internet news source covering CIS countries.
• Many new and updated pointers for European Community information.
• Foreign language tutorials.
• Patent information on the Internet.
• Sources of information on politics.
• Sources for alcoholics. More on cancer. Women's health issues.
• Many revised http and ftp pointers across the board. New tools gives different (and easier) ways of retrieving information.
• Several commercial services have changed names/addresses, and are getting a presence on the Internet.
• Easier access to Frequently Asked Question files.
• Usenet/Netnews by email.
• New address for WWW by email.

Version 1.8 November 30, 1994

Highlights:

• The IBM Global Network
• The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
• The NewsHound news filtering service
• The DowVision news filtering service
• The "In, Around and Online" newsletter
• CompuServe's multilingual machine translation service
• Pointer to resources on India
• Brazilian patents data
• Internet Global Phone
• The Microsoft Network
• AutoPages of Internet on the Web
• Frank Sinatra discussed and praised.
• On the Web: Dialog, Data-Star, ClariNet, Dun & Bradstreet, IBM Global Network, Sprint, Boardwatch Magazine, Der Spiegel.
• Full text articles from Time, Vibe, and Entertainment Weekly
• FAQ files: The How to get access to Netnews. Finger. Winsock Application.
• Defined: JPEG, pseudo-SLIP (replaces dialup SLIP connection), NNTP server.
• The Network Service Providers Around the World file, and other offerings.

Version 1.7 September 19, 1994

This update further strengthens the focus on Europe, Latin America, Africa,and Asia in the business application sections.

• The World Wide Web by email, including hints on searching data bases on the Web by email.
• Find information in WWW, Gopher, and ftp files through Lycos.
• Offerings to help locate information sources on the WWW.
• WAIS searches by email.
• Searching Usenet's Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) texts.
• More on Usenet by email.
• The gophers and WWW pages of the world, sorted by country.
• CompuServe, Dialog, Data-Star and ECHO on the WWW.
• Read news from all countries of the world through Clarinet.
• Data-Star is strong on European business information.
• Microsoft on the Internet.
• Global demography and population information.
• Discussing Australian and New Zealand wines.
• Images from the Vatican Library's collection of books and manuscripts.
• Added: sources on genealogy, art from Louvre in France, The British Library, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Council of Security and Cooperation in Europe, French news summaries, the latest UK news.
• Hint: How to handle mail returned due to error in contents.
• Hint: Receive confirmation when your Internet mail has been received.
• Hint: Getting off that mailing list.
• Various: relevance ranking, IBM Global Network, CD Plus, firewalls, HTML, Unicode, the Internet Talk Radio, Veronica by email, and more.

A Canadian version of the handbook is available in print. Print versions focusing on Australia, Spain, Iceland, and Denmark are being prepared.

Version 1.6 July 5, 1994

This update further strengthens the focus on Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

• Foreign language assistance
• Learning foreign languages
• Books in "other" languages
• Six different news digests on Africa
• New sources on China
• Interactive Chinese Chess
• International political and economic news from British Broadcasting Corporation (BBS).
• This week's currency exchange rates
• The Information Bank on African Development Studies (a World Bank project)
• Net-happenings has "moved," and can now be searched through gopher and WWW
• The Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Access MCI Mail from the Internet
• More pointers on satellites, amateur and packet radio
• Full-motion movie trailers from Warner Bros, MCA/Universal, and Walt Disney Pictures.
• Heart, lung, and blood diseases resource
• The Internet Poet Archive
• An Internet clipping service
• Parenthood
• Finding lists of periodic postings (FAQs) to Usenet
• QWK, .tar-files, more on compression, ftp via Gopher, finding the best gophers in the world, more on GopherMail, IRC, Linux, Lynx, WAIS FAQ, the WebCrawler database of WWW information pages, Internet tools. . .

Version 1.5 May 11, 1994

This update further strengthens the focus on Latin America, Africa, and Asia for business applications and holiday travelling in particular, and has new European pointers.

• New section on "Using email gateways to Internet resources."
• The Stanford Netnews Filtering Service.
• Resources on Sudan, Czech economy, NAFTA, The Maastricht Treaty, UNICEF, Africa,
• English language database on Japanese technology.
• More on Japan: Yomiuri Shimbun, Tradstat, Dow Jones News/Retrieval's offerings, Teikou's company profiles.
• La Vie Francaice, La Stampa, Wall Street Journal Europe, Nouvel Economiste.
• The Islamic Computer Resource Guide, and information on Qualam.
• Telnet to CompuServe.
• EUnet Traveller - for easy access to the Internet while in Europe.
• Reading encyclopedias online.
• The RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) Network Newsletter.
• Sending faxes through the Internet.
• More on MIME and BASE64.
• More on cryptography.
• Law-related resources on the Internet.
• Internet VoiceChat.

Version 1.4 March 10, 1994

This update focuses on Latin America, Africa, and Asia for business applications in particular, while strengthening the European pointers.

• New sources for news, conferences, gophers, and more for China, Japan, the Middle East, Israel, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, xUSSR countries, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, and other countries. Includes some Spanish language services.
• Network Service Providers Around the World
• The Directory of Information Services in China
• The KOI-8 (Russian/Cyrillic character) coding scheme.
• The No>m standard code (Vietnam)
• Some official information sources for the United States and Canada.
• Pointers for Cello, Lynx, Mosaic, PPP, SLIP, FreeWAIS, Winsock, Binhex
• Special Internet Connections
• Updated pointers to the WHOIS service, the Interest Groups List of Lists, NET-RESOURCES, and RFCs.

Version 1.3 January 8, 1994

• Using gopher services by email (Gophermail)
• Using Internet's finger by email
• Using Internet's ping by email
• Online store with over 260,000 book titles,
• Online store offering over 80,000 CD records
• References to CCITT replaced by ITU-TSS. Revised ITU information.
• The Gale Directory of Databases
• China Import/Export news
• CitiBank Global Report
• Many new sources for music lovers
• The NewNIR-L mailing list.
• Majordomo
• MIME
• Added references to several Frequently Asked Questions files
• More on Internet "demos",
• More on RFCs
• More books.
• The Sierra Network is now The ImagiNation Network.
• URL (Universal Resource Locater), and HTTP.
• Irving Kind's Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
• The text has been reformatted. Margins are now 1-76. Single-spaced text with double-spacing between paragraphs, and with full-block text rather than indentations at the beginning of paragraphs.
• Readers can now send their credit card number by PGP encrypted email when registering.

Version 1.2 November 1, 1993

• Added the home-ed mailing list, and The University of Phoenix's accredited degrees through courses conducted online
• Corrected addresses for lists previously at RPIECS
• The SIMTEL20 software library was closed. The software is now available through the SimTel Software Repository.
• The Maastricht Treaty on European Union
• Directory of scholarly electronic conferences
• More science fiction, music, and The CIA World Factbook.
• Forums for Mark Twain, Tolkien, - and the bizarre
• Tarzan and Frankenstein (books)
• Searching Webster's dictionary
• Eunet Deutschland GmbH
• Travel Britain Online
• The World Health Organization
• Advantis (IBM)
• "The Totally Unofficial List of Internet Muds"
• More WordPerfect support
• Financial Times' thirty international business reports.
• Sources on business in Mexico from Dow Jones.
• Forums for international trade and management.
• Trends: Interactive newspapers. Global telephone. Email by voice phone. CD-ROM supported communications.
• New books and magazines.
• Information about Compress, Demos, Jughead, RIP, SNA, .TAR, and .Z

Version 1.1. September 1, 1993

• Added The Internet Resource Directory for Educators
• Chinese character codes (Big5/GuoBiao)
• Hytelnet
• Netfind
• TRICKLE
• Access to WHOIS
• InterNIC's automated mail service
• South African Bibliographic and Information Network
• Added CHPOEM-L, and some other conferences/forums
• Continental Cablevision's Internet connection
• Updated addresses to all APC host computers
• Updated text about CIX (England)
• Email to Advantis IBMmail
• New address to SuperNet/SuperBBS
• New phone numbers/NUA numbers to TWICS (Japan)
• Expanded on computer viruses
• (Most) registration rates are now in US$.
• The TOW support forum
• Addresses to the book's Danish and German publishers
• Added books/magazines to appendix 5

Version 1.0. August 5, 1993

Initial release as shareware.