There is a vast array of materials available on the web which will be of interest to students.
I've collected a number of relevant links (by no means exhaustive) and listed them by categories
below. If students have suggestions for additional links, please send them to me via e-mail.
This page was last updated on August 1, 1999.
Introduction to the Internet
Tour of the Internet
http://whatis.com/tour.htm
Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
History of the Internet
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml
http://members.magnet.at/dmayr/history.htm
Future of the Internet
http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1998/swol-04-internet2.html
http://www.internet2.edu/
http://www.ngi.gov/
Virtual Communities
Some places to start finding a virtual community
http://www.well.com/
http://clubs.yahoo.com/
On-line book on virtual communities
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
Electronic Commerce
A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce ‚ Report to President
http://www.iitf.nist.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm
Taxing the Net
http://www.techreview.com/articles/mj96/newman.html
http://www.house.gov/chriscox/nettax/
General
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Electronic_Commerce/
Privacy Issues
General
http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/
http://www.well.com/user/abacard/privacy.html
http://www.pff.org:80/encry.html
http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/%7Edenning/crypto/Future.html
Privacy "Test"
http://www.consumer.net/Analyze/
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/pgp.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~rjswan/pgp/
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
Anti-Spam Campaigns
http://www.cauce.org/
http://www.ao.net/waytosuccess/nospam.html
Junk Email Defense
http://www.junkemail.org/
http://www.ultranet.com/~gmcgath/selfdefense.html
Intel's New Threat to Privacy
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
Censorship and Sex on the Internet
General Commentaries
http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/Tech/Internet_Decency_Debate/
http://www.spectacle.org/freespch/
http://metalab.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1995/aug/schmeiser.html
Sexual Addiction
http://www.sexaddictionhelp.com/general.html
http://www.sca-recovery.org/
"Kitty Porn" Page (Humor)
http://www.west-teq.net/~blainel/kitties/
Access to the Internet
Govt Report on Access Problems
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fallingthru.html
Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use
http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/papers/race/science.html
Other Commentaries
http://www.bionomics.org/text/resource/articles/universal_disservice.html
http://www.benton.org/Library/Low-Income/
Gambling on the Internet
Legal Issues
http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Gambling/Internet_Gambling/Legal_Issues/
FAQ
http://www.netbet.org/faq.html
Organizations Related to Virtual Politics
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Center for Democracy and Technology
American Civil Liberties Union
These pages are relevant for the Spring 1999 semester. Any questions or problems with these pages
should be sent to Professor H.
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