============================================================= Community Information Systems NOTE: Kindergarten through 12th Grade (K-12) Information Systems are prefixed K-12: ============================================================= Prepared by Judy Hallman , UNC-Chapel Hill Revised December 5, 1994 This list provides information about community and K-12 information systems you can connect to and try out. Access information for World- Wide Web (WWW), gopher, and/or telnet connections is given. You can pick up this list by anonymous ftp to sunsite.unc.edu; cd pub/docs/about-the-net/cwis, get communets. Or point your gopher or WWW browser to info.unc.edu, path: Other information systems Community Information Systems About the Community Information Systems section The gopher and telnet systems listed here are all accessible from the UNC-Chapel Hill campus-wide information system, Info. You can gopher info.unc.edu or telnet info.unc.edu; login as info Select "Other information systems" and then "Community Information Systems." World-Wide Web sites for accessing CWISs: Some community information systems can be accessed from WWW URL: http://www.usask.ca/~scottp/free.html Provided by Peter Scott For VT100 access to World-Wide Web sites using lynx: telnet www.cc.ukans.edu; login as www Provided by Lou Montulli ============================================================= Akron Regional Free-Net Demo Gopher, USA gopher gopher.neoucom.edu 1070 Hardware/software: gopher+ Contact: Anne McFarland Gopher Admin: "Richard E. Depew" ------------------------------------------------------------ Alachua Free-Net, Alachua County, Florida, USA WWW URL: http://freenet.ufl.edu/ telnet freenet.ufl.edu; login as visitor Hardware/software: FreePort Contact: Bruce Brashear <76314.352@compuserve.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ AzTeC Computing - Tempe, USA telnet aztec.asu.edu; login as guest with password visitor Hardware/software: FreePort Contact: Joseph A. Askins ------------------------------------------------------------ Big Sky Telegraph - Dillon, Montana, USA telnet bigsky.bigsky.dillon.mt.us; login as bbs Hardware/software: SCO Unix on a 386 and 486 running XBBS Contact: Frank Odasz ------------------------------------------------------------ Blacksburg electronic village, Blacksburg, VA, USA WWW URL: http://crusher.bev.net/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Blue Sky Free-Net Of Manitoba - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada telnet winnie.freenet.mb.ca; login as guest with password guest Hardware/software: World Wide Web and lynx Contact: Betty Dearth ------------------------------------------------------------ Boston Online - Boston, Massachusetts, USA WWW URL: http://www.std.com/NE/boston.html Contact: Adam Gaffin ------------------------------------------------------------ Boulder Community Network - Colorado, USA WWW URL: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Buffalo Free-Net - Buffalo, New York, USA telnet freenet.buffalo.edu; login as freeport Hardware/software: SunOS and FreePort Contact: James Finamore ------------------------------------------------------------ CIAO! Free-Net - Trail, British Columbia, Canada gopher ciao.trail.bc.ca telnet ciao.trail.bc.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation and FreePort Contact: Ken McClean ------------------------------------------------------------ COIN - Columbia Online Information Network - Columbia, Missouri, USA telnet bigcat.missouri.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation with FreePort, Gopher, Pico, and Pine software Contact: Bill Mitchell ------------------------------------------------------------ Cambridge Civic Network, MA, USA WWW URL: http://www.civic.net:2401/cambridge_civic_network/cambridge_civic_network.html ------------------------------------------------------------ CapAccess: The National Capital Area Public Access Network, Washington, DC, USA telnet cap.gwu.edu; login as guest with password visitor About end of August, telnet: capaccess.org Hardware/software: Sun SparcStation 10 running Freeport Contact: Taylor Walsh ------------------------------------------------------------ Central Virginia's Free-Net - Richmond, USA WWW URL: http://freenet.vcu.edu/cvanet.html telnet freenet.vcu.edu; login as guest with password visitor Contact: Kenneth C. Guyre ------------------------------------------------------------ Chebucto FreeNet, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada WWW URL: http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/ Or telnet cfn.cs.dal.ca; login as guest Contact: David John Murdoch ------------------------------------------------------------ City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA WWW URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/Cambridge/homepage.html Contact: ------------------------------------------------------------ City of Palo Alto, California, USA http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------ City of San Diego, California, USA WWW URL: http://white.nosc.mil/sandiego.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Cleveland Free-Net, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, Ohio, USA telnet freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or telnet freenet-in-b.cwru.edu or telnet freenet-in-c.cwru.edu Hardware/software: Sun 6/690 running FreePort Contact: Jeff Gumpf ------------------------------------------------------------ Denver Free-Net - Denver, Colorado, USA telnet freenet.hsc.colorado.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun SPARC 20/51 and IPC running FreePort Contact: Drew Mirque ------------------------------------------------------------ Edinburgh - Scotland's Capital, Edinburgh, Scotland WWW URL: http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/EDC/Edinburgh.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Eugene Free Net, USA telnet efn.efn.org; login as guest; password - press return ------------------------------------------------------------ Free-Net Erlangen Nuernberg - Erlangen, Germany telnet 131.188.192.11; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Peter Beck ------------------------------------------------------------ Grand Rapids Free-Net, USA WWW URL: http://www.grfn.org/ telnet grfn.org; login as visitor Hardware/software: SparcClassic, Sun Microsystems, running Lynx Contact: Andrew Bass ------------------------------------------------------------ Greater Detroit Free-Net, USA WWW URL: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~pegjones/HomePage.html telnet detroit.freenet.org; login as visitor Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Paul Raine ------------------------------------------------------------ Halton Community Network, Canada telnet halinet.sheridanc.on.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: FreePort ------------------------------------------------------------ Heartland Regional Network - Peoria and Bloomington/Normal Illinois, USA telnet heartland.bradley.edu; login as bbguest Hardware/software: Sun SparcII running FreePort Contact: Karen S. Eggert ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: California Online Resources for Education (CORE) - Los Alamitos, CA, USA telnet eis.calstate.edu; logon as ctp Hardware/software: Sun workstation Contact: Frank Wallace ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Colorado State University K-12 Server, USA WWW URL: http://k12.colostate.edu Hardware/software: httpd running on an SUN IPC running SUN OS. Contact: Greg Redder ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Poudre-R1 Gopher Information Service, USA gopher alpha.pr1.k12.co.us Hardware/software: Gopher running on a DEC 3000/300 running OSF1 Contact: Greg Redder ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Sendit North Dakota, North Dakota's K-12 Educational Telecommunication Network - Fargo, ND, USA telnet sendit.nodak.edu; logon as bbs with password sendit2me Hardware/software: NeXT workstation running FreePort Contact: Gleason Sackmann ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: UMassK12: University of Massachusetts/Amherst K-12 Information System, USA telnet k12.ucs.umass.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: DEC-5000/133 running a version of Freeport Contact: Dan Blanchard Mort Sternheim ------------------------------------------------------------ K-12: Virginia's Public Education Network (PEN) - Richmond, VA, USA telnet vdoe386.vak12ed.edu; login as guest with password guest Hardware/software: RISC 6000 with AIX running PEN software Contact: Dr. Harold Cothern ------------------------------------------------------------ LA Free-Net, Los Angeles, USA telnet lafn.org Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Avrum Bluming ------------------------------------------------------------ LibertyNet - Philadelphia, USA WWW URL: http://libertynet.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Lorain County Free-Net - Elyria, Ohio, USA telnet freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: Paul Boguski ------------------------------------------------------------ Melbourne Free-Net, Australia WWW URL: http://ghmac.lib.rmit.edu.au/mfn.html Contact: Gary Hardy ------------------------------------------------------------ Michiana Free-Net, Indiana, USA WWW URL: http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/MFNet/MFNetMainMenu.html Contact: Donald McLaughlin ------------------------------------------------------------ National Capital Free-Net - Ottawa, Canada WWW URL: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ telnet freenet.carleton.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort Contact: National Capital FreeNet Office ------------------------------------------------------------ North Texas Free-Net - Dallas, Texas, USA gopher metronet.com Select "NPTN TEXAS (Free-Net Information)/" Hardware/software: gopher Contact: Ken Loss-Cutler ------------------------------------------------------------ Ocean State Free-Net, Providence, RI, USA telnet 192.207.24.10 Hardware/software: Sun workstation with FreePort Contact: Howard Boksenbaum ------------------------------------------------------------ Ozark Regional Information On-Line Network, Springfield, MO, USA telnet ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation with FreePort Contact: Annie Linnemeyer ------------------------------------------------------------ Prairienet - Champaign-Urbana, USA WWW URL: http://www.prairienet.org/ telnet prairienet.org; login as visitor with password visitor Hardware/software: Sun workstation with FreePort Contact: Ann P. Bishop ------------------------------------------------------------ Prince George Free-Net, Canada telnet freenet.unbc.edu; login as guest Hardware/software: FreePort Contact: Linda Williams ------------------------------------------------------------ SEFLIN FREE-NET - Southeast Florida Library Information Network, USA telnet bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us; login as visitor Hardware/software: Sun workstation running software shared in Florida Contact: Elizabeth Curry or Craig Stillings ------------------------------------------------------------ SLONET - San Luis Obispo, USA gopher slonet.org Contact: Phil Wagner ------------------------------------------------------------ Silicon Valley Public Access Link - USA WWW URL: http://www.svpal.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Tallahassee Free-Net - Tallahassee, Florida, US WWW URL: http://freenet3.scri.fsu.edu:81/ telnet freenet.fsu.edu; login as visitor Hardware: IBM RS/530 running AIX Sun Sparc 10 running SOS DEC 3000 Alpha 400 running OSF1 Software: Developed by Diane Wood; ftp.scri.fsu.edu /pub/TFN Contact: Hilbert Levitz ------------------------------------------------------------ The Digital City, Amsterdam, Netherlands telnet dds.hacktic.nl; login as gast or guest Hardware/software: Solair 10/30 running SunOS with FreePort software Contact: Marleen Stikker Joost Flint Felipe Rodriquez or John Heiden ------------------------------------------------------------ Toronto Free-Net, Canada telnet freenet.toronto.on.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: FreePort on a Sun workstation Contact: Laine G.M. Ruus ------------------------------------------------------------ Traverse City Freeport, Michigan, USA telnet leo.nmc.edu; login as visitor Contact: Bob Sturtz ------------------------------------------------------------ Tri-State Online - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA telnet tso.uc.edu; login as visitor. Hardware/software: UNIX and CIX Contact: Steve Shoemaker ------------------------------------------------------------ Triangle Free-Net - Research Triangle Park area of NC, USA WWW URL: http://tfnet.ils.unc.edu/ gopher tfnet.ils.unc.edu Or telnet tfnet.ils.unc.edu; login as freenet Hardware/software: gopher on an HP9000/360; changing to WWW (and lynx) Contact: Judy Hallman ------------------------------------------------------------ Twin Cities Free-Net, USA WWW URL: http://quality.ais.umn.edu Or telnet free-net.mpls-stpaul.mn.us; login as guest Hardware/software: World Wide Web and lynx on a Sun workstation Contact: Scott Fritchie ------------------------------------------------------------ Vancouver Regional FreeNet, Canada WWW URL: http://freenet.vancouver.bc.ca/ telnet freenet.vancouver.bc.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: FreePort Contact: Brian Campbell ------------------------------------------------------------ Victoria Free-Net - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada WWW URL: http://freenet.victoria.bc.ca/vifa.html Or gopher freenet.victoria.bc.ca Or telnet freenet.victoria.bc.ca; login as guest Hardware/software: Sun workstation running FreePort for telnet access Contact: Gareth Shearman ------------------------------------------------------------ Wellington Citynet - Wellington, New Zealand gopher gopher.wcc.govt.nz Or emulate a vt100 and telnet kosmos.wcc.govt.nz, login as NEW to register Hardware/software: gopher Contact: Richard Naylor ------------------------------------------------------------ Youngstown Free-Net, USA gopher yfn.ysu.edu Or telnet yfn2.ysu.edu; login as visitor Hardware/software: Multiple Sun workstations running FreePort for telnet access Contact: Lou Anschuetz