Guide to the Internet

The Ugly Ox's guide to the Internet

The BORDERLINE by Gabe Martin

world globe

The World Wide Web

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave..."1
Overview
spider and web

Hear Homer Simpson say, "Oh they have the Internet on computers now!"

Lots of Data
Much Information
Some Knowledge
A Little Wisdom

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
-- T.S. Eliot

Connections
Protection
Communication
Etiquette
Of interest to librarians
Displaying the Data
Organizing the data
Browsers
Search Engines
Finding & Getting Found
Web Page & Site Layout
Examples of Pages and Sites
Tips
Proofreading and Debugging
Site Hosting
On the Internet and World Wide Web you will find lots of data some of which may be useful information. By experience, you will acquire the knowledge necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff. To speed you along the way in discerning the good from the not so good, these "notes" are the accumulated wisdom surfing the web by the author, his peers, and his students. By reviewing the information on these sites, the www will not be the world wide wait (slow connection) or the world wide waste (poor information) and one of the W's will stand for wise.

Links in blue and underlined open a new window.

These web pages have a evolved from a "roll of toilet paper" format. Navigating within each page can be accomplished by using the "page up" and "page down" buttons, the up and down arrows, or the scroll bar on the right hand side of your browser or if you have a mouse with a wheel, that will move the page.


1 "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" is often attributed to Shakespeare, however Sir Walter Scott penned that phrase in the poem "Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field" 1808.2

2 BPL Ask A Librarian Examples Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama, accessed 29 Oct 2004.


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