MASTERING THE INTERNET

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To take full advantage of the Internet, it is necessary to anticipate the growth of new resources and to identify them as soon as they become available. To work efficiently, it is necessary to learn the tools available to search the Net, to develop an organized way to archive important locations, to participate in newsgroups and to establish a presence on the net so that others can find you.

These are the steps I took to set myself up.

Learn where to find specific interests within the sub-categories used by the major Catalogs and check them frequently.
Locate specialized lists and determine which are being actively maintained.
Locate clearinghouse functions within your specialization that include assessment of new sites and seem to be used by new sites as a place to announce new material.
Try a variety of key words in the major Search Engines and set up procedures to repeat the most productive searches freqently.
Monitor key newsgroups for additional references.
Check for the names of organizations likely to be joining Internet - starting with national organizations.
Check the academic departments at major Universities that may be building information systems.
Set up a site of your own with material of value to others with your interest. Find a niche and fill it.
Register your site with the key locations you have found.
Clearly invite those visiting your site to communicate their interests with you.
Use bookmark systems or more comprehensive procedures to collect new pointers to sites.
If the number of sites of interest is substantial, organize HTML pages to speed revisiting sites.
Don't forget to search Gopher and other sites not on the World Wide Web.

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