The Online World shareware book Revision history
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The following major changes have been done to The Online World shareware book 
since its original release: 
    
Version 1.4  March 10, 1994
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This update focuses on Latin America, Africa, and Asia for business 
applications in particular, while strengthening the European pointers. 

* New sources for news, conferences, gophers, and more for China, Japan, the 
  Middle East, Israel, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Australia/New Zealand, 
  Brazil, Mexico, xUSSR countries, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, and other 
  countries. Includes some Spanish language services.
* Network Service Providers Around the World 
* The Directory of Information Services in China 
* The KOI-8 (Russian/Cyrillic character) coding scheme. 
* The No>m standard code (Vietnam) 
* Some official information sources for the United States and Canada. 
* Pointers for Cello, Lynx, Mosaic, PPP, SLIP, FreeWAIS, Winsock, Binhex 
* Special Internet Connections 
* Updated pointers to the WHOIS service, the Interest Groups List of Lists, 
  NET-RESOURCES, and RFCs.

Version 1.3  January 8, 1994
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* Using gopher services by email (Gophermail)
* Using Internet's finger by email
* Using Internet's ping by email
* Online store with over 260,000 book titles, 
* Online store offering over 80,000 CD records 
* References to CCITT replaced by ITU-TSS. Revised ITU information.
* The Gale Directory of Databases
* China Import/Export news
* CitiBank Global Report
* Many new sources for music lovers
* The NewNIR-L mailing list.
* Majordomo
* MIME
* Added references to several Frequently Asked Questions files 
* More on Internet "demos", 
* More on RFCs
* More books.
* The Sierra Network is now The ImagiNation Network.
* URL (Universal Resource Locater), and HTTP.
* Irving Kind's Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms 
* The text has been reformated. Margins are now 1-76. Single-spaced 
  text with double-spacing between paragraphs, and with full-block 
  text rather than indentations at the beginning of paragraphs.
* Readers can now send their credit card number by PGP encrypted 
  email when registering.

Version 1.2   November 1, 1993
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* Added the home-ed mailing list, and The University of Phoenix's
  accredited degrees through courses conducted online
* Corrected addresses for lists previously at RPIECS
* The SIMTEL20 software library was closed. The software 
  is now available through the SimTel Software Repository. 
* The Maastricht Treaty on European Union
* Directory of scholarly electronic conferences
* More science fiction, music, and The CIA World Factbook.
* Forums for Mark Twain, Tolkien, - and the bizarre
* Tarzan and Frankenstein (books)
* Searching Webster's dictionary
* Eunet Deutchland GmbH
* Travel Britain Online
* The World Health Organization
* Advantis (IBM)
* "The Totally Unofficial List of Internet Muds"
* More WordPerfect support
* Financial Times' thirty international business reports.
* Sources on business in Mexico from Dow Jones.
* Forums for international trade and management.
* Trends: Interactive newspapers. Global telephone. Email by voice phone.
  CD-ROM supported communications. 
* New books and magazines.
* Information about Compress, Demos, Jughead, RIP, SNA, .TAR, and .Z

Version 1.1.  September 1, 1993
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* Added The Internet Resource Directory for Educators 
* Chinese character codes (Big5/GuoBiao)
* Hytelnet
* Netfind
* TRICKLE
* Access to WHOIS
* InterNIC's automated mail service
* South African Bibliographic and Information Network
* Added CHPOEM-L, and some other conferences/forums
* Continental Cablevision's Internet connection
* Updated addresses to all APC host computers
* Updated text about CIX (England)
* Email to Advantis IBMmail
* New address to SuperNet/SuperBBS
* New phone numbers/NUA numbers to TWICS (Japan)
* Expanded on computer viruses
* (Most) registration rates are now in US$. 
* The TOW support forum
* Addresses to the book's Danish and German publishers
* Added books/magazines to appendix 5

Version 1.0. August 5, 1993
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Initial release as shareware.

For information, contact Odd de Presno at opresno@extern.uio.no .