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Management Information Systems
in the
School of Business Administration
at
UM - St. Louis
MSIS 480: Management Information Systems
Internet Resources - Overview
- For information about the origins of the Internet and some general definitions, look at the Internet Basics page.
- Email
- If you wonder just exactly how email works, or why someone would want to use it, please read the document, What Is E-mail?. Even if you are not curious, this document provides a nice historical background for the technology.
Before you send significant amounts of email, you should review the Points for Effective Computer Mediated Communication.
- Hang Ten
- Guide to Surfing the Web
- Search engines
- PC Magazine Online's 100 Top Websites
- HTML Resources
- HTML Primer
- HTML Help Page
- A 480 sample page
- Another sample page
- A third sample page
- Cookies
- Have you ever wondered what "cookies" are and how they affect your ability to use the Web for business applications? Here are some insights.
- Web Design: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites
- The Foundations of Web Design
- Web monkey: Build your own Web Site
- Web monkey: E-business
- Newsgroups
- The Internet is much bigger than just the World Wide Web. Here is some material that will help you learn all about newsgroups - chances are, there's one just for you.
- news.newusers.questions
- Lists of Newsgroups
- To access the newsreader in your browser, type news in the location where you would normally type the URL, as shown below.
- To find listservs on a particular topic, send email to listserv@listserv.net with the key term list global / followed by some keywords describing your interest area, as shown below.
