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From: MX%"MEDIA-L%BINGVMB.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu" 25-AUG-1994 08:32:04.35
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Subj: Internet Computer Index
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 05:32:28 -0500
Sender: Media in Education <MEDIA-L%BINGVMB.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
From: Carl <carl@SMART.LIB.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject: Internet Computer Index
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Mail*Link(r) SMTP Internet Computer Index
Hello friends,
The attached internet resource has the potential of being very important
to anyone needing information about personal computers.
--Carl Snow
carl@smart.lib.purdue.edu
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Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 16:49:39 ITA
From: Fabio Metitieri <METITIER@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT>
Subject: Internet Computer Index announcement
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Attached is the highlights of the press release we just issued. I think
that people on the NEWNIR mailing list will be particularly interested in
this service, given its bredth. Please feel free to tell others about it!
Internet Computer Index Centralizes Information about Computers
-- Free service gives easy access to widely-dispersed Internet resources
--
Santa Cruz, California -- May 16, 1994 -- For the first time, Internet
users can find anything available on the Internet about computers in one
central location. The Internet Computer Index (ICI), created by Proper
Publishing, tells users them everything that is known on the Internet
about
PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix systems. Additional information is also
available on ICI that isn't available anywhere else on the Internet.
Further, ICI is supported by commercial sponsors who add up-to-date
information about their products to the ICI service.
ICI uses the popular World Wide Web and Gopher systems to distribute its
information. Using attractive, informative menus and hypertext, ICI gives
up-to-date connections and pointers to the other freely-available
information on the Internet. Anyone on the Internet, anywhere in the
world, can access ICI 24 hours a day at no charge.
Description of ICI
The Internet Computer Index (ICI) is an easy-to-use, free service that
leads Internet users to all of the information available on the Internet
relating to PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix computers. ICI is the Internet's
only one-stop, resource-locating service, helping users locate any
information related to computers that is available on the Internet more
easily and efficiently that ever before possible. ICI users can find out
answers to their hardware and software questions, solve networking
problems, research buying decisions, and keep up-to-date with their
systems. Using Gopher or World Wide Web client software, any user on the
Internet, anywhere in the world, can get the most up-to-date information
including pointers to all Usenet news groups, mailing lists, Gopher and
World Wide Web servers, anonymous FTP sites, and other Internet-specific
resources.
In order to make searching easy, ICI is organized as hierarchical menus of
information. For each type of computer system (PC, Macintosh, or Unix),
there is a menu that lists the type of Internet resources that describe
that system. Most people will be only interested in one of the three main
areas, but other can easily traverse between the three through
cross-links.
Users can search through Internet resources including:
* Usenet news groups
* mailing lists
* Gopher servers
* World Wide Web servers
* anonymous FTP sites
* frequently asked question files (FAQs)
* online publications
* commonly-downloaded files
In addition, ICI freely provides information that is not available
anywhere
else on the Internet. For example, the Macintosh and PC sections allow
users to search through indexes of reviews from popular magazines since
January 1993. Further, ICI also lets users search through the messages
from
relevant Usenet news groups for topics of interest. In the future, Proper
Publishing will add more original content to ICI as a service to the
Internet community.
Accessing ICI
To reach ICI using a Gopher program, enter "ici.proper.com" as the host
name.
To reach ICI using a World Wide Web program such as Mosaic, enter
"http://ici.proper.com" as the Universal Resource Locator (URL).
Public contact: Send email to info@proper.com
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