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and exiting to an
adjacent room also generate a short message appropriate to the action."
"At MIT's AI Lab, MicroMuse features explorations, adventures, and
puzzles with redeeming social, cultural, and educational content. The
MicroMuse Science Center offers an Exploratorium and Mathematica
Exhibit complete with interactive exhibits drawn from experience with
Science Museums around the country. The Mission to Mars includes an
elaborate tour of the red planet with accurate descriptions rivaling those
found in National Geographic."
"Elsewhere on MicroMuse, one can find an outstanding adventure
based on the children's classic Narnia; a recreation of the Wizard of Oz
adventure built by a gifted 8-year old; a challenging Logic Quest; and a
living model of the science fiction genre `The DragonRiders of Pern' by
author Anne McCaffrey."
If you would like to explore MicroMuse, you may connect as follows
from your local host computer: telnet michael.ai.mit.edu [18.43.0.177]
login: guest [no password required] tt [TinyTalk client program]
connect guest [Connect to MicroMuse]
BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU
Telnet to BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU or 152.2.22.80. Type launch at the login
message. It's a must. Not only can you read Usenet Newsfeeds, but you
can use LibTel, a scripted telnet gateway to access both US and
international libraries plus such things as Data Research Associates
Library of Congress catalog, the Ham Radio Call Book, the National
Science Foundation, the Weather Server, Webster's dictionary and
thesaurus, and more.
Remote Access to Files (FTP)
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is what to use to retrieve a text file,
software, or other item from a remote host. Normal practice is to ftp to

the host you want and login as "anonymous". Some sites use the
password "guest" while others require that you put in your network
address as the password. Some popular ftp sites follow:
SUMEX-AIM
This archive at Stanford (sumex-aim.stanford.edu or 36.44.0.6) houses
a plethora of Macintosh applications, utilities, graphics and sound files.
SIMTEL20
(simtel20.army.mil or 192.88.110.20) at the White Sands Missile
Range in New Mexico contains a similar archive software for MS-DOS
computers.
An FTP visit to the Network Service Center at nnsc.nsf.net
(128.89.1.178) is a gold mine of documents and training materials on
net use. See further information on this in the "Resources for Learning
More" section of this article.
Project Gutenberg
The primary goal of Project Gutenberg is to encourage the creation and
distribution of electronic text. They hope to get ten thousand titles to
one hundred million users for a trillion etexts in distribution by the end
of 2001.
Some of the many texts available now include Alice in Wonderland,
Peter Pan, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost and other texts in the public
domain. Many of these texts are availablevia ftp:
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.201.12)

cd etext/etext92 [for 1992 releases] [etext93
is available for testing now]
c d etext/etext91 [for 1991 releases] [This file
should be in it]
c d etext/articles [for Project Gutenberg articles
and newsletters].

Most are also available from quake.think.com
(192.31.181.1); /pub/etext,
from simtel20, and from many other sites.

For more info try Gopher as in the following section
or contact:
Michael S. Hart, Director
Project Gutenberg
National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts
Illinois Benedictine College
5700 College Road
Lisle, Illinois 60532-0900
INTERNET: [email protected]
CompuServe:
>INTERNET:[email protected]
Attmail: internet!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!dircompg
BITNET: HART@UIUCVMD


Travel Agents:
Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, Worldwide Web and
More

There is so much information on the net, it's
impossible to know
where everything is, or even how to begin looking.
Fortunately,
some computerized "agents" are in development to
help sort through
the massive data libraries on the net.


Archie

Peter Deutsch, of McGill's Computing Centre,
describes the archie server
concept, which allows users to ask a question once
yet search many
different hosts for files of interest.

"The archie service is a collection of resource
discovery tools that together
provide an electronic directory service for

locating information in an
Internet environment. Originally created to
track the contents of