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Reply-To: Odd de Presno <presno@GRIDA.NO>
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From: Odd de Presno <presno@GRIDA.NO>
Subject:      ** shareware book about the online world **
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For immediate release:


                   THE ONLINE WORLD shareware book
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                      The online ASCII version
                    (Fifth release, May 11, 1994)


The Internet is moving so fast that printed books are obsolete the moment
they appear in print. Not so with The Online World shareware book. A new
version appears every second month.

From his electronic cottage in Norway, author Odd de Presno advises on
the practical use of the GLOBAL online information resource.  He explores
selected applications across continent, country, network and service
boundaries to show how user needs can be met.

His examples range from databases to entertainment and the bizarre to
special services for  professionals and organizations. He shares insights
on the use of major global networks and services as the Internet, Usenet,
BITNET, Fidonet, Echo, CompuServe, DIMDI, NIFTY-Serve, and others.

de Presno has more than 20 years of experience with online services, both
as a service provider and a heavy user. In his spare time, he runs KIDLINK,
a global network for kids 10 - 15 years of age. Since he founded it in
1990, over 23,000 kids in 60 countries have participated in the programs.

Since the book's last release in March, it has a further strengthened
focus on resources in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and Europe.

It has new pointers to powerful filtering services, resources on Sudan,
Czech economy, NAFTA, The Maastricht Treaty, UNICEF, databases on Japanese
technology, Teikou's company profiles, Yomiuri Shimbun, Tradstat, Dow Jones
News/Retrieval's offerings on Japan, La Vie Francaice, La Stampa, Wall
Street Journal Europe, Nouvel Economiste, The Islamic Computer Resource
Guide, how to read encyclopedias online, and more.

  ANNOUNCING THE ONLINE WORLD MONITOR.
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The Online World Monitor newsletter is a bi-monthly, ASCII online product.
While the book describes the online world as it is, the newsletter tracks
changes. It can more freely focus on selected offerings or phenomena than
can be done within the strict framework of the book.

The newsletter contains tales about discoveries that never made it to the
book...Glimpses of the changes in the online world...Trends... Spotlight on
important new developments around the world.

Volume 1 Number 1 has the following contents:

Watch this! The batch approach to networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Odd de Presno's favorite findings since the last update of The Online World
shareware book.

Worth your attention: Spotlight on important developments . . . . . . . 2
Telnet to CompuServe. SimTel. Live voice conversations over the Internet.

Pointers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Interesting conferences, newsgroups, and resources

Changes - sic transit gloria mundi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Services come and go, change names, move to other "homes". What the heck is
going on?


For more bakground information :
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The easy way
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Gopher to cosn.org. Select: Networking Information/Reference/The Online
World.

The gopher at   wuecon.wustl.edu 671  lets you read "The Online Book by
Chapter/", and has the choice "SEARCH Online Book <?>."  Select "Online
Book" from the main menu.

For information about KIDLINK, gopher kids.ccit.duq.edu 70 .

Information by email
--------------------
The following information is available by email to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU
(or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on BITNET) . Send the following type of command in the
TEXT of your mail to retrieve (the subject line is ignored) :

    GET <archive name> <file name>

Replace <archive name> and <file name> by the names of desired files from
the list below.

Archive       File      What does this file contain?
------        -------   ----------------------------
TOW           INDEX     The Online World book's contents
TOW           WHERE     How to  retrieve The Online World shareware
                        book by modem?
TOW           OPRESNO   Who is Odd de Presno?
TOW           WHATSNEW  The book's update history.
TOW           MONITOR   Information about The Online World Monitor
                        newsletter
TOW           PRESS394  The March 1994 press release
KIDLINK       GENERAL   What is KIDLINK?


Example: To get the file INDEX, use the command

              GET TOW INDEX

Personal attention
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Write me at opresno@extern.uio.no , or by fax to +47-370-27111 , and I
will reply as soon as possible.

           Thanks,

       Odd de Presno
(Author, publisher, Norwegian)