                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 info@gnn.com.

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