The “Janova List” (“Internet Features List” [1] ) is a list of various Internet resources created and maintained by Scott Janov in 1991–1995. Initially published as a private recommendation for beginners from just six points in the Usenet newsgroup , the list grew rapidly and became a significant phenomenon in the early history of the Internet. Possession of the Janov List (the The Yanoff List ) became self- explanatory for new Web users, and getting a fresh copy of the list from the Web - a way of getting to know the basic techniques of working on it [1] .
With the exponential development of the Internet in the 1990s, primarily the World Wide Web , as well as the advent of specialized cataloging and search resources, the relevance of the Janov List was rapidly decreasing. Its last update was released in May 1995, after which it came out of wide use. Nevertheless, years later, Janov’s List was cited as a bright phenomenon at the early stage of the Internet development and as the ancestor of the authorized yellow pages of the Internet, suggesting the commercial potential of such publications [2] [3] .
History
Scott Yanov , at that time a student of the computer science department in September 1991 compiled a list of six network resources that he found useful or just interesting at the initial stage of his acquaintance with the capabilities of the Internet . He shared this list in the alt.bbs.internet and news.answers newsgroups. The list immediately gained popularity, sold out to other groups, and Yanov himself received many recommendations for including other resources in the list [4] .
These events prompted Yanov to the idea of regular releases of updated and expanded versions of the list. Formally, it was called “Special internet services”, later “Special internet connections”, but in the network environment it was known simply as “The Yanoff List” (“Yanov's List”) [4] or as “The Yanoff Internet Services List” [5] .
In this era, the Internet was perceived as a multitude of individual resources accessible through a variety of protocols, both in the “common network” and through gateways in private networks of , and the like. At the same time, WWW was little known, and the first browser implementations did not provide any significant advantages over the same Gopher . This factor should be taken into account to understand the extreme eclecticism of the list, in which Telnet , FTP addresses, Finger commands, mailing lists , IRC channels and others follow a single list on the basis of a common theme. The same eclecticism was then inherited by the first editions of the Yellow Pages of the Internet [4] [2] .
Regular updates of the list were distributed by Janov without the right of modification without the permission of the author and with the right of free use for non-commercial purposes [6] . In 1994, PC Magazine named Janov's List the second most important source “about the Internet on the Internet.” [7] The last update of the list was published on May 28, 1995, after which its support ceased.
Getting the list
The HTML version of Janov’s List at the latest official URL is no longer available, but its archive copy (last updated May 28, 1995) is available via the Internet Archive , see the " References " section.
Below is an example of obtaining a text copy of the Yanov List in 1994 through a terminal emulator by a user (USA), given with comments and explanations in the manual “The Internet Roadmap”.
A feature of the early data exchange systems was their extreme levity (verbosity) from the program on the server. First, the developers were forced to combine the answers with tips and help system. Secondly, the program informed the user about every internal step, because users liked it. If you remove the unimportant and take into account that the numbers at the beginning of the lines are server response codes , the whole process is shorter and simpler than it looks.
The user connects to the FTP server and is registered as an anonymous user. The standard practice at that time was to set in this case as a temporary password your real email address . Then the user in the general directory /pub asks to find all files beginning with the letter i ( dir i* ). For the convenience of newbies, most servers at that time kept only one file for this letter, Janov's List, which was called inet.services.txt standard inet.services.txt user finds the file and downloads it to his computer, then closes the connection ( quit ) [1] .
netcom% ftp ftp.csd.uwm.edu Connected to alpha2.csd.uwm.edu. 220 alpha2.csd.uwm.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.1c (2)) ready. Name (ftp.csd.uwm.edu:bkf): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: rosebody@well.sf.ca.us 230-University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee FTP server 230-Local time is Thu Jun 9 22:57:22 1994 230- 230-If you have any unusual problems, please report them 230-via e-mail to help@uwm.edu. 230- 230-If you have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the 230-first character of your password - this will turn off the 230-ft. Of your ftp client. 230- 230-Please read the file Policy 230- it was last modified on Mon Jan 24 12:49:58 1994 - 136 days ago 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub This directory contains 250 files for anonymous users. Files may 250-be read, but not written (use "/ incoming" for writing new files). 250- 250 CWD command successful. ftp> dir i * 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for / bin / ls. -rwxr-xr-x 1 4494 -2 48244 Jun 1 14:58 inet.services.txt ftp> get inet.services.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for inet.services.txt (48244 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: inet.services.txt remote: inet.services.txt 49151 bytes received in 0.86 seconds (56 Kbytes / s) ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. netcom%
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Fock B. Internet from the very beginning = The Internet Roadmap. - SPb. , 1996. - p. 68, 72-73, 83. - ISBN 5887820543 .
- ↑ 1 2 Baikov V. D. Internet: Search for information and website promotion. - SPb. , 2000. - p. 83. - ISBN 5820600959 .
- Reviews Book reviews: “The Information Revolution: A Guide to the World Wide Web” . First Monday (2005).
- ↑ 1 2 3 John December. Electronic Publishing on the Internet: New Traditions, New Choices (September 1, 1994).
- ↑ Teresa M. Harrison, Timothy Stephen. Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University. - SUNY Press, 1996. - p. 440. - 468 p. - ISBN 9780791428535 .
- ↑ From the header of the list: It is for non-PROFIT purposes. ”
- ↑ About the Internet on the Internet // PC Magazine. - 1994. - October 11th. - p . 138 .
Links
- SPECIAL INTERNET CONNECTIONS . Scott Yanoff (October 7, 1991). (one of the first versions in the archive alt.bbs.internet)
- Special Internet Connections (not available link) . Scott Yanoff. Archived February 10, 1997. (latest updated version)