From pcrispe1@ua1vm.ua.eduThu Jan 25 22:19:31 1996 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 17:21:48 -0600 From: Patrick Douglas CrispenReply to: TOURBUS-REQUEST@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: Multiple recipients of list TOURBUS Subject: TOURBUS - 25 JANUARY 1996 - THE TIMES /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|________/ | \ / /______|----\ / Send INFO TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM ///////| | | Or visit http://csbh.mhv.net/~bobrankin/tourbus |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TOURBUS - THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 TODAY'S STOP: THE TIMES TODAY'S STOPS: http://www.nytimes.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/sub-bin/new_sub.cgi http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/verify/verify.cgi http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/sections.html http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/front/quick.html http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/cynavi.html Well, I'll admit it. I'm embarrassed. It turns out that the "Navy story" about the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the lighthouse is in fact a very old urban legend (probably created by someone on the USS Carl Vinson (I'M KIDDING!!!)). As an alert reader pointed out, the Enterprise/lighthouse story has probably been floating around (no pun intended) since the days of Lord Nelson and the HMS Victory. This, of course, explains why Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar ... he had air support from the aircraft carrier Enterprise. +-----------------> Netscape Road Map Training Manual <-------------------+ | Now available for use by Trainers and Presenters. This 55 page manual | | succinctly reviews the basic functions of Netscape 2.0. Get your copy | | today for just $16. FREE info & sample chapter, E-mail: CDOMEYE@AOL.COM | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ OH THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGING --------------------------------- If you are looking for proof that the World Wide Web is dominant force that is here to stay, I think I've found it: The New York Times is now online! Before you start celebrating and going "yippee" (and you do that a lot, don't you?), there is some bad news: you have to have a graphical, forms-capable Web browser like Netscape or Mosaic to be able to fully use The New York Times Web pages. Why? Well, while The New York Times on the Web is absolutely free (see note below) to everyone, you need to "register" with The Times to be able to access some of their pages ... and you have to have a forms-capable browser in order to register :( << Note: turns out this may be just a 30-day trial, perhaps only for USA >> The New York Times main homepage is at http://www.nytimes.com/ and you can register with The Times for free by clicking on "REGISTRATION" on The Times homepage, or by jumping directly to http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/sub-bin/new_sub.cgi After you register, The Times will send you a four digit verification code through e-mail. Once you get the verification code, jump on over to http://www.nytimes.com/subscribe/verify/verify.cgi and plug in your New York Times subscriber ID and password (the ones that you created when you registered with The Times), click on "log in," and then enter your verification code when you are asked for it. That sounds pretty difficult, but look on the bright side: you only have to do this once :) ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO ... ------------------------------ Once you have registered with The Times, you can jack-in to The Times anytime you want by going to http://www.nytimes.com/ but your best bet is to jump directly to The New York Times "sections" page at http://www.nytimes.com/info/contents/sections.html instead. Either address will work, but I've found that it is a little bit easier to find your way around all of the Times' pages from the "sections" page. From the sections page, you can jump to any of the following sections (imagine that!): FRONT PAGE NEWS BY CATEGORY CYBERTIMES POLITICS EDITORIALS/LETTERS OP-ED ARTS & LEISURE TRAVEL REAL ESTATE JOB MARKET DIVERSIONS ARCHIVES CLASSIFIEDS Most of these categories are pretty self-explanatory. "Front Page" has the front page of the New York Times, as well as a really nifty "quick read" summary service at http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/front/quick.html (you can access this by clicking on the "quick read" icon on the sections page) which, like NandO News (which we visited a little while ago), gives you one paragraph summaries of the latest news stories, with hyperlinks to the full articles. While I like reading the news as much as the next person, one of my favorite sections of The New York Times Web page is CYBERTimes at http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/cyber/index.html which contains the latest news from the techno-world. Also located in the CYBERTimes section is The New York Times Navigator at http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/cynavi.html which is a delightful collection of links to search engines, collections for journalists, reference materials, on-line publications, Election '96 web pages, and other neat Internet resources. According to the folks at the Times, "Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent was to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing each of them to spend time hacking around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own." Needless to say, The New York Times Navigator page is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Web resources :) I was going to talk about the op-ed section and make a joke about William "congenital" Saffire, but I'll resist. Instead, I'm going to bring today's tour to a close and let you play around with The Times on your own. I *strongly* suggest that you take a look at The New York Times homepage at http://www.nytimes.com/ and take a look at all the news that's fit to ... well ... um ... SURF! -------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- MARKINS - Noun. 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