Resources for your ti-99/4a home Computer

WORLD-WIDE WEB BY E-MAIL
The World-Wide Web is the premier Internet navigational tool - a hypertext and multimedia system that lets you hop around the Net, read documents, and access images & sounds linked to a source. Have you ever heard someone say, “Wow, check out the cool stuff at http://www.somewhere.com/blah.html” and wondered what in the world they were talking about? Now you can retrieve WWW documents by e-mail using an Agora webmail server. All you need to know is the Uniform Resource Locator (or URL, that long ugly string starting with “http:”, “gopher:”, or “ftp:”) which defines the address of the document, and you can retrieve it by sending e-mail to one of:
Agora Server Address Location Usenet Access?

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[e-mail] (Japan) Y

[e-mail] (Japan) Y

[e-mail] (USA - alias for above address)

[e-mail] (USA)

[e-mail] (Russian users ONLY)
In the body of your note include one of these lines, replacing “” with the actual URL specification.

send rsend (to override your return address) This will send you back the document you requested, with a list of all the documents referenced within, so that you may make further requests. To try WWW by e-mail send the following commands to an Agora server :

www

send http://www.w3.org

You’ll receive in due course the Agora help file and the “WWW Welcome Page” which will include references to other Web documents you’ll want to explore. There are some other webmail servers listed below, which run software other than Agora. Note that the GetWeb server at Healthnet can handle web pages which require you to fill in forms.
Address Syntax Comments

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[e-mail] GET Send HELP command for more info

[e-mail] GET Send HELP or HELP FORMS

[e-mail] Use ‘Subject: info’ for help

[e-mail] GO Same as [e-mail]

[e-mail] Limited free searches - Defunct?

[e-mail] Defunct?

Note: The webmail servers are sometimes unavailable for days (or weeks) at a time without explanation. If you get an error or no reply, please retry in a day or so.