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[Brian Erwin <brian () ora com>]

                THE GLOBAL NETWORK NAVIGATOR
            An Internet-based Information Center
                 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
        Free Subscription (send mail to info () gnn com)

          Next month, we will launch a new experiment in online 
publishing, _The Global Network Navigator_ (GNN), a free Internet-
based information center that will initially be available as a
quarterly.  GNN will consist of a regular news service, an online 
magazine, The Whole Internet Interactive Catalog, and a global 
marketplace containing information about products and services.

Keep Up with News of the Global Network 
          The Global Network News provides a continuously updated 
listing of interesting news items by and about the users of the 
Internet, including announcements of new information services. 

Discover New Interests in GNN Magazine  
          Each issue will present articles developed around a common 
theme, such as government or education.  Regular columns will cover 
such topics as how to provide information services on the Internet or 
help for new Internet users.  It will have several innovative 
departments, such as Off The Wall Gallery, that exhibits in digital 
form the works of new artists, and Go Find Out, a section containing 
reviews of the Internet's most interesting resources.  

How to find resources on a particular subject
          One of the most popular features of O'Reilly's _The Whole 
Internet User's Guide and Catalog, by Ed Krol, is the catalog of 
information resources on the Internet.   GNN features an expanded, 
interactive version of this resource catalog that can be used online 
to navigate to the Internet servers containing those resources.  
The Online Whole Internet Catalog organizes Internet resources in the
following categories:

     - The Internet             - Arts
     - Current Affairs          - Libraries, Reference & Education
     - Science                  - Government and Politics
     - Technology               - Business
     - Humanities               - Work and Play

          In the Online Whole Internet Catalog, subscribers can not 
only read about these resources, they can actually connect to them with 
a click of the button.  

Participate in the GNN Marketplace
          Getting good information from a company about their products
or services is almost as valuable as the product or service itself.  
The Global Marketplace provides referrals to companies providing this 
kind of information online through the Internet.  The Global Marketplace 
also contains commercial resource centers in which subscribers may 
find white papers, product brochures or catalogs, demo software or 
press releases for the companies advertising in GNN Marketplace.

GNN and The World Wide Web
          Global Network Navigator is an application of the World Wide 
Web (WWW), developed at CERN in Switzerland.  Users can choose any 
WWW browser, such as Mosaic (available for UNIX, Windows, and the Mac) 
from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.  In addition,  
O'Reilly & Associates will make available Viola, an X-based hypermedia 
software environment in which we've developed a sophisticated WWW 
graphical browser.  Viola makes it possible to distribute object-oriented 
documents that use formatted text, graphics, icons, and scripts.  All 
World Wide Web browsers can be used to access network services such as
gopher and WAIS, independent of the Global Network Navigator.

How To Subscribe
          The Global Network Navigator is available over the Internet 
as a free subscription service during its launch.  GNN will be funded by 
sponsors who provide commercial information of interest to our readers 
in GNN Marketplace and through advertising in GNN News, GNN Magazine and 
the Online Whole Internet Catalog.  
          To get information on subscribing to Global Network Navigator, 
send e-mail to send e-mail to info () gnn com.
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