Management Information Systems in the School of Business Administration at UM - St. Louis

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MSIS 480: Management Information Systems

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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.

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URL: http://www.umsl.edu/~sauter/480/internet.html

Page Owner: Professor Sauter (Vicki.Sauter@umsl.edu)

Last Modified: January 4, 1999