Why Incomplete? In these days of high-powered computing the human element is often neglected. Acronyms and abbreviations abound and can confuse even the most educated computer consumer. WhatÕs more, those who do understand the concepts and jargon are often unwilling or unable to relay them to the novice computer user. This guide is meant to provide a helping hand in understand the Internet entity. It is by no means a complete guide; rather it is a general overview of what the Internet is and some of the resources available. In areas where the information presented is very general, alternate, more in-depth sources are cited, most of them available right from your computer. This guide will also provide you with ideas for using the Internet in a classroom as well as a personal environment. This guide was a group effort of the NCSA Education Program Students and was originally compiled by Brian Golden and Charles Farmer, two of the NCSA Education Program Student Consultants. If you have any questions about this manual, Internet, telecommunications, or the NCSA Education Program, please call Chuck Farmer at (217) 244-6122 or Lisa Bievenue at (217) 244-1993 or contact them via e-mail at cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chuck) or bievenue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Lisa). Due to the unique and fluid nature of the group of people working on the "Guide", there will be regular updates to the main version of the manual (Incomplete.Guide.XXX.hqx, the MS Word for the Mac) and the versions for other systems will be delayed. For a hardcopy of the Manual, contact Chuck at cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu or by phone at (217)244-6122. If you wish to make the conversion to other formats yourself and make it available for ftp, please send us a message saying where it is, so that we can pass that information along to others. There are some other formats available on a trial basis. We cannot make any guarentees as to how usable these files will be. Incomp.Guide.July.RTF.ZIP: This is an exchange format that has been "zipped". Incomp.Guide.July.WFW.ZIP: Word for windows that has been "zipped" Incomp.Guide.July.txt: just plain text Incomp.Guide.July.PS.Z: Postscript version that has been "compressed" Incomp.Guide.July.sea.hqx: Binhexed version of a self expanding of the MS Word for Macs