Online Health Care Resources -IAP Jan '96

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/laurel/Health/home.html

The Internet

• A network of networks.
• Transferring data.
• Displaying data.

The World Wide Web

• Nuts and Bolts
  • Browsers, Pages, Hypertext
  • URLs, bookmarks
  • HTML
• Search Engines
  • Alta Vista -http://www.altavista.com/
  • Yahoo -http://www.yahoo.com
• Some Examples
  • BMT-Talk Home Page
  • Using Alta Vista search for "repetitive stress injury"
  • Using Yahoo, search for (suggestions?)
• Making Your Own
  • The info is on the Web
  • Start at: http://www.zdnet.com/~eamonn/crash_course.html

Mailing Lists

• Samantha will talk about mailing lists.

Newsgroups

• About newgroups
• Newsreaders
  • Web based, Unix based, Emacs based, and X based.
• Finding an interesting newsgroup.
• Starting an interesting newsgroup (the alt hierarchy).