WWW - Getting Started

checked at 1994/11/09 BKi

Access by E-Mail

Agora: Retrieving WWW Documents through mail
Send e-mail to:
agora@mail.w3.org
subject: (none, blank line)
in the body, e.g.:
send http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MailRobot/send.html
or, in general,
send URL
source URL

Send e-mail to:
webmail@curia.ucc.ie
subject: (none, blank line)
in the body, e.g.:
go http://www.earn.net/gnrt/www.html
or, in general,
go URL

Access by telnet

telnet login.fh-wolfenbuettel.de [141.41.1.243]
login: webinfo webinfo
("lynx" full screen browser)
telnet telnet.w3.org [128.141.201.214]
(automatic login process, no password; CERN line-mode browser)
(use "go URL")

See also: World Wide Web FAQ (Browsers Accessible by Telnet)

Obtaining browsers

See: World Wide Web FAQ (Obtaining browsers)

Microsoft Windows Browsers

require TCP/IP, SLIP or PPP and Winsock.

Cello
fatty.law.cornell.edu /pub/LII/Cello (cello.zip)
ftp.fu-berlin.de /pc/win3/tcp-ip/mirror-cica (cello.zip)
ftp.fu-berlin.de /pc/win3/tcp-ip/slip-ppp/clients (cello101.zip)
OS/2:
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de /pc/os2/2_x/win_os2 (celloos2.zip)
NCSA Mosaic for Windows
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu /PC/Mosaic (wmos20a7.zip / win32s)
ftp.fu-berlin.de /pc/win3/tcp-ip/mirror-cica (wmos20a7.zip)
WinWeb
ftp.einet.net /einet/pc/winweb (winweb.zip)
ftp.fu-berlin.de /pc/win3/tcp-ip/mirror-cica (winweb.zip)
Netscape (?)
ftp.fu-berlin.de /unix/network/www/netscape/windows (nscape09.zip)

X Window Browsers

NCSA Mosaic for X
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu Mosaic

Further Information about WWW

Burkhard Kirste, 1994/11/09, last update 1995/09/27