TABLE OF CONTENTS The library is the mathematician's laboratory.
PAUL R. HALMOS, I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography in Three Parts (1985)
It's a library, honey kind of an early version of the World Wide Web.
From a cartoon by ED STEIN
Once you master spelling anonymous, you can roam around the public storage areas on computers on the Internet just as you explore public libraries.
TRACY LAQUEY and JEANNE C. RYER, The Internet Companion (1993)
Just as footnotes and a bibliography trace an idea's ancestors, citation indexing traces an idea's offspring.
KEVIN KELLY, in SIGNAL: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988)
A huge variety of information and software is available over the Internet, the worldwide combination of interconnected computer networks. The location of a particular object is specified by a URL, which stands for "Uniform Resource Locator". Examples of URLs are
http://www.netlib.org/index.htmlftp://ftp.netlib.org
The first example specifies a World Wide Web server (http = hypertext transfer protocol) together with a file in hypertext format (html = hypertext markup language), while the second specifies an anonymous ftp (file transfer protocol) site. In any URL, the site address may, optionally, be followed by a filename that specifies a particular file.
The best way of accessing information on the Internet is with a World Wide Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. These browsers have intuitive interfaces, making them very easy to learn. For downloading files an alternative is to...
