Casting Your Net: A Student's Guide to Research on the Internet

Casting Your Net is the first comprehensive guide to conducting academic research on the Internet.

All the major researchable modes of the Internet and their respective search engines are covered, from the early technologies FTP, WAIS, and gopher, which still have usefulness today, to the current favorites, Usenet and the World Wide Web. Also included are sections on the listservs and e-mail.