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Press Release Archive, 1994
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Contact: Rich Schinnell (301) 949-9292
Internet Seminar
Saturday, December 17, 1994
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rockville, MD
December 8, 1994
The Capital PC User Group will offer a free Internet seminar on December 17, 1994, in the Lipsett Amphitheater at the National Institutes of Heath, Bethesda campus, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Planned is an online demonstration of what the Internet is, what you can do with it, and how to gain access. We will show you E-mail, Newsgroups, Gopher, the World Wide Web, and LISTSERV, and how to use each service from both Shell and SLIP/PPP accounts. If you don't know what those terms mean, we'll explain that, too. A question and answer period will follow the demonstration.
Karl Signell will be the main speaker. Mr. Signell teaches faculty at George Mason University; seminars at the Nutrition Educators of America, DC Chapter; the CPCUG.ORG Internet User Support Team; the Smithsonian Institution Workshop, and others.
The Internet
September 12, 1994, CPCUG General Meeting
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Rockville, MD
August 23, 1994
The Internet--the driving force in world-wide computer communications, will be the major topic of the Capital PC User Group's monthly General Meeting on September 12. The User Group, which offers its own access to the "Net," will present a review and critique of the status of the software available to use the Internet and show how to install and use available Windows freeware and shareware programs.
Beginning at 7:00 p.m., the meeting at the Bethesda NIH campus main (Masur) Auditorium in Bethesda, Md., will focus on the use of an ordinary telephone line connected to a personal computer as a "node" with its own Internet address.
CPCUG First Vice President Larry McGoldrick and member Stuart Winokur will use freeware or shareware ("try before you buy" software) to browse and search files, databases, and newsgroups to illustrate the broad range of these information sources.
Using tools such as Mosaic, Gopher, Eudora Mail, Trumpet News Reader, Trumpet Telnet, Winsock FTP, and Winsock Archie, which are available through the CPCUG bulletin board or other BBSs, McGoldrick and Winokur will show attendees what can be found "surfing the Net." The inexpensive yet powerful suite of information tools will be displayed for the individual user or group.
Rich Schinnell, CPCUG President, said the demonstration is in the tradition of public service non-profit "users helping users," with advanced and highly trained computer experts freely showing what they know, providing objective, accurate information, and demonstrating benefits to other users and potential users.
The meeting and software demonstration is free. With nearly 5,000 members, CPCUG, founded in 1982, is one of the first, if not the first, user group to establish its own Internet domain at small cost to members. Schinnell noted that this meeting comes just one month short of the Internet's birth twenty-five years ago when UCLA scientist Leonard Kleinrock used a refrigerator-sized computer wired to an IBM Selectric typewriter to send the message, "Are you receiving this?" to San Francisco, four hundred miles away. The CPCUG President noted that judging from the Internet's growth, history may rank this statement just behind Alexander Graham Bell's, "Come here, Watson, I need you."
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