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Remote Login to Internet Resources: TELNET
One step beyond electronic mail is the ability to control a remote
computer using TELNET. This feature lets you virtually teleport
anywhere on the network and use resources located physically at that
host. Further, some hosts have gateways to other hosts, which have
further gateways to still more hosts. How can you be in two places at
once? It sounds more confusing than it is. What resources are available?
Here is a sampling of some of the fare awaiting you at several sites:
Cleveland Free-net
Freenets are the progeny of: Tom Grundner, Director, Community
Telecomputing Laboratory Case Western Reserve University 303
Wickenden Building Cleveland, OH 44106 216/368-2733 FAX:
216/368-5436 Internet: [email protected] BITNET:
aa001%cleveland.freenet.edu@cunyvm and the folks at: National
Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) Box 1987 Cleveland, OH
44106 216/368-2733 FAX: 216/368-5436 Internet:
[email protected].
Free-nets are built around a city metaphor, complete with schools,
hospitals, libraries, courthouses, and other public services.
Academy One recently held an online global simulation of a series of
major space achievements. 16 schools (from five states and four nations)
participated. Here are several of the descriptions of their projects:
"VALKEALA HIGH SCHOOL VALKEALA ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL Valkeala, Finland ([email protected]) Acting as
Space Shuttle Discovery taking the Hubble Telescope into space. These
Finnish students will be in communication with students in Estonia,

relaying their reports."
"DR. HOWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Champaign, IL
([email protected], [email protected]) Dr. Howard
School (25 students in 3rd/4th grade) will be simulating the Challenger
2 launch. They are being assisted by the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications."
"ST. JULIE BILLIART SCHOOL Hamilton, OH
([email protected]) Simulating a NASA Tracking Station
in Florida. They will be posting hourly weather reports about the
conditions in Florida around Cape Kennedy. This information is vital to
the recovery of the Friendship 7 capsule and crew. Students have taken
an interest in Space Junk and will be posting additional reports on the
various probes which were used to test the surface of the moon and
how all of that junk is now becoming a hazard to current and future
space exploration."
Another Free-net resource is Project Hermes. This service provides
copies of Supreme Court opinions in electronic form to as wide an
audience as possible, almost as soon as they are announced.
The Court's opinions can be sent directly to you or you may download
the files directly from any NPTN community computer system.
The Free-nets also provide weather, news, and gateways to other
resources. To access the Cleveland Free-Net (where all this is being
held) simply telnet to: freenet-in-a.cwru.edu 129.22.8.82 or 129.22.8.75
or 129.22.8.76 or 129.22.8.44 and select "visitor" at the login menu.
MELVYL
Catalog Division of Library Automation University of California
Office of the President 300 Lakeside Drive, 8th floor, Oakland,
California 94612-3550 415/987-0555 (MELVYL Catalog Helpline)
E-mail: [email protected]
The MELVYL catalog is the union catalog of monographs and serials

(periodicals) held by the nine University of California campuses and
affiliated libraries. It represents nearly 11 million holdings at UC, the
California State Library, and the Center for Research Libraries.
The MELVYL catalog also provides access to MEDLINE and Current
Contents as well as a gateway to many other systems. Access to some
databases is restricted under a license agreement to the University of
California faculty, staff, and students. Telnet: MELVYL.UCOP.EDU
(192.35.222.222)
CARL
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries 777 Grant Suite 306 Denver
CO 80203-3580 303/861-5319 E-mail: [email protected]
CARL offers access to the following groups of databases: Academic
and public library online catalogs, current article indexes such as
UnCover and Magazine Index, databases such as the Academic
American Encyclopedia and Internet Resource Guide, and a gateway to
other library systems. Access to some items is limited. Telnet:
pac.carl.org (192.54.81.128)
MICROMUSE
This is how Barry Kort (aka `Moulton'), Visiting Scientist at
Educational Technology Research, BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA
describes MicroMuse at M.I.T.
"MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions) or MUSEs (Multi-User Simulation
Environments) are virtual realities which offer a rich environment for
synergy, community, collaboration, and exploratory discovery."
"Players connect to the host computer, adopt a character and
personality of their choosing, and enter into the synthetic world,
consisting of a web of connected rooms and movable props."
"Everything (rooms, movable objects, connecting passageways, and
players) has a description (typically a few lines of text) which are

displayed when a player looks at it."
"Actions such as picking up or dropping an object,