Internet Update
- Introduction: Part I and Part II...What has happened in the last year
- Service shakedown, account types etc... best.com (just look at Microtimes)
- Structural Integrity of the Internet: Like it or Not...we're moving !!
- US centered, Worldwide growth. Real time, worldwide, multilingual publishing - only on the Internet
- Status of Internet in Asia
- Rules for the road: Legacy of Acceptable Use Policies in Asia
Encoding Schemes
- Chinese Encoding Information
- Here and Korean Encoding Info.
- Japanese Encoding Methods Shift-JIS, JIS, EUC Explained
- Read Ken Lunde's book Understanding Japanese Information Processing
- Bitstream is a company working on TrueDoc, a portable font technology for Electronic Documents.
- Adobe Acrobat is, unfortuantely, Uni-lingual ...duh...
CHINA (.ch)
- The Backbone (NCFC)
- ISP's
- Domain structure
- Other Presentation Pointers (Jim)
TAIWAN (.tw)
KOREA (.kr) and others
JAPAN (.jp) different domain name suffix system
- Domain Structure: Allocated Domains in JP : 2783, Connected Domains in JP: 1964 (Apr 21 1995)
- .jp (Only 3: Two NTT and National Laboratory for High Energy Physics)
- .go.jp Japanese Government 131
- .ad.jp Network Related Business 48
- .ac.jp Academic & Research 531
- .co.jp Companies 1598
- .or.jp All others 265
- and there are some municipal domains as well .
- The Backbone (Wide Network Operation Centers)
- Earthquake, Sarin Gas terrorism News and the Internet, Internet making news...
- Japanese magazines with CDROMS (html, demo software, how to etc... Hard to find but worth it.
- internet magazine, published bi-monthly by impress, 1980 yen
- internet user, published monthly by Softbank 1580 yen
- Others: Wired Japan, just about any major Computer magazine in Japan features articles...
- Sim-TV The Global Christmas
- OS2 InternetCafe in Japan
- Delegate, MacProxy, Netscape fixes those headaches...changed our whole demo
- Netscape: Does WWW, multilingual forms, newsgroups, ftp, gopher, and some e-mail!
- NEWSGROUPS:
- Newsreaders: Netscape !, Newswatcher-J, NewsAgent
- Newgroups: fj, chinese, alt.chinese, sci.lang.japan, soc...etc...
- E-MAIL, いいメール（電子メール） Eudora, is there any other ?? Netscape (send mail only)
- MAIL LIST: read about them in the newsgroups..
- The Electronic Frontiers Japan mailing list = EFJ
- Subscrible to EFJ BE SURE TO INCLULDE "subscribe efj" (in the message portion of e-mail)
- EFJ (digest version) BE SURE TO INCLULDE "subscribe efj-digest" (in the message portion of e-mail).
- Honyaku Listserve
- Subscribe to Honyaku BE SURE TO LEAVE subject blank, and INCLUDE Subscribe Honyaku (in message)
- Active Mailing Lists in Japan
Tools
- Telnet for shell users
- FTP: File Transfer Protocol = grabbing stuff from all over the world
- A Few FTP pointers for Chinese related software
- A Few FTP pointers for Japanese related software (just a few)
- Apple Language Kit Updates and information
- Internet Initiative Japan IIJ ftp archives an ISP that trys hard to keep it's customers up to date
- University of Arizona Japan related ftp site
- University of Washington ftp site
- Internet Resource Index Extensive List of Sites in Japan
- Japan National Cancer Center ftp site
- The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Japan)
- Tsukuba Science City University
- All the Gopher Servers in Asia very handy list ...
- Files from Ken Lunde's Book
- gopher Search Engine
- WWW Word Wide Web
- Character Based: Lynx
- GUI Mosaic, Netscape, Cello, others
- WorldWideWeb Authoring: html tools, W3, HTML -> New Frontier of Multilingual Publishing
Other Demonstrations
- LONG DISTANCE: Do the phone companies "really" want to carry our data ??? Call your friends today (see below for details).
- WEBCHAT - not as robust as IRC but it does do Asian languages
- Webchat
- Webchat Experiment: Japanese Cool ! (and new)
Web Surfing in Asia ...pointers
Discussion: Potential for IMUG page in WWW history ?
Big Thanks
Terry Rawlings, Kathryn Phipps, Richard Ford of Apple Computer Inc.Norbert Lindenberg, General Magic Inc.
Roger Sherman, SRI International
and of course, Yuan Ho our fearless IMUG leader.
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