Selected Internet Definitions Web pages that I have found useful are: Gopher menu on a computer http://lnternet.edu/about/scientis/menu.htm in Seattle, Washington, may Archie A computer information system that searches for A list of scientists working on Long-term have list information for doz- documents, images, sound files, and software at Ecological Monitoring Network (LTER) projects ens of computers around the anonymous FTP sites based on key words and links to other LTER information; world. supplied by a user. http://www.nfrcg.gov/home-page/htmls.html A National Biological Service site that gives To get a Gopher menu, cc:Mail E-mail software used by the National Park many links to Internet resources for biologists; send an e-mail message to Service, some universities, and other groups. http://bluegoose.arw.r9.fws.gov/ one of the following ad- Client Software that resides on a local computer and is FWSHomePage.html dresses: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service home page; used to retrieve or view information on other http://www.nwi.fws.gov/Welcome.html [email protected] computers on the Internet. To use Archie you Information on the National Wetlands Inventory [email protected] need an Archie client; to use Gopher you need a with several links to other WWW resources; [email protected] Gopher client. http://nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/vert.html [email protected] Information on the vertebrate zoology Cyberspace All or any functioning subset of computers, department at the Smithsonian Institution [email protected] computer networks, and software that are Museum of Natural History; [email protected] interconnected. The word connotes the existence http://nmnhwww.si.edu/nmnhweb.html of electronically created environments used for The home page for the Smithsonian’s natural Using cc:Mail, the steps entertainment or communication that appear to history museum; are as follows: have little or no relationship to their physical http://straylight.tamu.edu/bene/bene.html locations. The site of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems (1) select “Address to Network webserver. This is one site where you person” [enter] E-mail A general term for any text-based electronic can learn of e-mail lists related to biodiversity (2) select “np—Internet” communication between computers. Cc:Mail, topics; [enter] Popmail, and Pine are examples of e-mail http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/FAM_DESC/ (3) type one of the software (clients). _fdlist.htm addresses above [enter] FTP File Transfer Protocol. A system for transferring An index of detailed plant family descriptions (4) select “End addressing” By following other URL links you can, for example, [enter] either text or binary data between computers. Anonymous FTP sites allow access without retrieve family descriptions of the Rubiaceae (5) type a subject line at… (optional) using a confidential password. http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/fam_desc/ (6) type “help” in the Gopher A program for viewing directories and getting Rubiacea.htm message area text information from computers, which are set or the Ericaceae at… (7) F10 up as Gopher servers. Using Gopher requires a http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/fam_desc/ (8) send message Gopher client (software). Ericacea.htm http://www.aps.edu/HTMLPages/WERP.html Server A computer specially set up and administered to Background information on the New Mexico If you have a specific go- provide information (data or software) to other Museum of Natural History Water Ecology pher URL that you want to computers. Servers can provide any combina- Research Project; tion or subset of Gopher, Archie, Veronica, FTP, reach (such as “gopher:// http://envirolink.org/enviroweb.html World Wide Web, e-mail, or other services. Links to many Web pages, including the sunsite.unc.edu/1m/../.pub/aca- Endangered Species Act On-Line, demic/biology/ecology+evolution/ URL Uniform Resource Locator. The string of Environmental Legal Documents, and the Frog bioguide/bioguide.item”), use one characters used to identify files by resource type, Information Server; of the Webmail addresses directory, and computer anywhere in the world. http://ash.lab.r1.fws.gov/usfwslab.html from the table or place the Veronica A computer information system that searches for Links to many wildlife related Web pages, computer host name in the including summaries of natural resource documents, images, sound files, or software at protection laws, such as the Lacey Act, the subject line, as follows: Gopher sites based on key words supplied by a Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered user. Veronica is to Gopher as Archie is to FTP. Species Act, and others. A link to a list of gopher.micro.umn.edu endangered species is also included; Main gopher menu at the The Web The World Wide Web. Collectively, the comput- University of Minnesota; http://envirolink.org/florida/other.html ers (servers) that are set up to provide interac- South Florida environmental resources; and muse.bio.cornell.edu tive and interlinked multimedia documents over Biodiversity and biology the Internet. Whereas the e-mail function of the http://www.satelnet.org/manatee/facts.html menu at Cornell University; Facts about manatee biology and natural Internet only allows messages to be sent one history. biodiversity.ups.edu way and is limited to text, the web is interactive Another biodiversity gopher menu; and allows users to browse through documents GOPHERMAIL that contain text, images, sounds, and movies. gopher.epa.gov Gopher provides menus or indexes of Environmental Protection available text information in list form. It Agency Gopher menu; and was named after the Minnesota Golden marvel.loc.gov will be sent to you. Whereas items that Gophers of the University of Minnesota Library of Congress. will take you to additional menus end with where the software was first created. Items Gophermail will return a menu. When a forward slash (“/”), document names do in each list are either titles for other menus you select a document by placing an “X” not. By selecting a menu name with an or names of text documents. Menus do before the document name and return the not just apply to one computer. Rather, a message to Gophermail, that document Continued on page 18 W INTER 1996 • 171717.