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This site contains links of special interest to those who have not yet developed expertise concerning the Internet. They are not a comprehensive tutorial, but links to such resources are provided. Start at this page when you are still tentatively exploring the Web and you will find information that will support your efforts.
Sites New Users Should Know About
Netiquette
- The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette, by Arlene Rinaldi
- http://www.fau.edu/rinaldi/netiquette.html
This is a handy source for information about netiquette.
History and Background
- The History of Computing
- http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html
This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Introduction to HTML
http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
This is Case Western Reserve University's Introduction to HTML, hypertext markup language, the language of Web. Webpages are drafted in HTML, which is read by your Web browser to produce the page you are reading and the other things you see on the Web. It is not essential that you understand HTML to surf the Web, but you might develop an interest in it. If you do, check out this searchable tutorial with and index and glossary.
- InterNIC
- http://rs.internic.net/
No one owns or is in charge of the Internet, but InterNIC plays a key role in keeping order because it registers domain names and provides publicly accessible databases that keep track of who operates which sites.
- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
- http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/
"The W3C is an industry consortium which seeks to promote standards for the evolution of the Web and interoperability between WWW products by producing specifications and reference software. Although W3C is funded by industrial members, it is vendor-neutral, and its products are freely available to all. The Consortium is international; jointly hosted by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in the United States and in Europe by INRIA who provide both local support and performing core development."
Don't Get Taken
- Don't Spread that Hoax!
- http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html
Users of the Internet must learn to be skeptical, and think carefully before spreading a message to new users. This site lets you know about some of the classic hoaxes so you will not be fooled.
- Internet Fraud Watch
- http://www.fraud.org/ifw.htm
The National Consumers League sponsors the National Fraud Information Center site which, thanks to grants from MasterCard International and NationsBank, provides Internet Fraud Watch, a page which posts daily reports on popular Internet scams.
Where to Go on the Internet
What's Popular on the Web
- 100hot
- http://www.100hot.com/
Links to the top 100 websites, by traffic.
Online Reference Tools
- One Look Dictionaries
- http://www.onelook.com/
A search engine style interface indexing 479848 words in 81 dictionaries. - Merriam-Webster's WWWebster's Dictionary
- http://www.m-w.com/dictionary
Online Webster's Dictionary that allows you to type in words and receive definitions. It also features a word of the day feature and a book store. - Dictionary.com
- http://www.dictioinary.com/
Site that provides access to a variety of online word resources, including dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus and Bartlett's Quotations. - West Legal Dictionary
- gopher://wld.westlaw.com/1.dir/wld
Online legal dictionary. - Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- http://www.thesaurus.com
Roget's Internet Thesaurus. - Internet Literacy Consultants Glossary of Internet Terms
- http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
This resource can help when you do not understand Internet terminology. - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/
Good source of definitions for computer terms. - The Technobabble Dictionary
- http://www.cpaonline.com/Netscape20/technobabble.html
If the techobabble has you confused, try consulting the Technobabble Dictionary. - Chemicool Periodic Table
- http://the-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/
Periodic Table online. - Virtual Reference Collection
- http://nimrod.mit.edu/common/reference/tools.html
Reference materials online from MIT. - A Prisoner's Dictionary
- http://www.wco.com/%7Eaerick/lingo.htm
Part of The Other Side of the Wall: Prisons and Prison Law. - Alta Vista
- http://altavista.digital.com/
Very powerful and very popular search engine. - HotBot
- http://www.hotbot.com/
Another popular and powerful search engine. - Yahoo
- http://yahoo.com/
One of the most popular catalogue-style indexes. - All-in-One Search Page
- http://www.albany.net/allinone/
Access to more search engines than you have ever seen. A comprehensive search site. - DejaNews
- http://www.dejanews.com/
A premier source for Newsgroup searches. - Infoseek Home Page
- http://www.infoseek.com/
One of the popular Web search engines. - Lycos Home Page
- http://www.lycos.com/
One of the popular Web search engines. - The Internet Sleuth
- http://www.isleuth.com/
The Internet Sleuth™ is a collection of over 900 searchable databases on the Internet on a wide variety of subjects. - NlightN Home Page!
- http://www.nlightn.com/
A search engine with a more than the internet in its database. Finds hits in proprietary data bases where the search is free but you must pay to retrieve full text and abstracts. - Search Magellan
- http://www.mckinley.com/
Nice search engine. It rates sites, including for adult content. - PSI Net Gopher Index (veronica)
- gopher://veronica.psi.net:2347/7
Access to Veronica searches in gopherspace. - Excite! Netsearch
- http://www.excite.com/
Large data base, good speed and access to the Web and UseNet. - Searching the TradeWave Galaxy
- http://galaxy.einet.net/search.html
Has a nice way of counting the most frequent words used on the pages that it finds for you. Also outlines the page as well as providing the usual excerpt. - WebCrawler Searching
- http://webcrawler.com/
America Online's search engine. - Netscape Destinations: Net Search Page
- http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html
Netscape has collected search engines on one page. Provides access to several engines in one place. - Netscape Destinations: People Page
- http://home.netscape.com/escapes/index.html
Netscape has collected many "people search" tools one page. This site provides access to Bigfoot, Four11, WhoWhere?, Switchboard and IAF all in one place, so you can look up addresses and e-mail addresses online.
Specialized Legal Search Engines
- The Law Engine
- http://www.fastsearch.com/law/index.html
Search engine and search page with legal focus.
- Web Gems
- http://www.fpsol.com/gems/webgems.html
This site is offered by a Columbus, Ohio company. The site provides a Guide to Substantive Web Resources that currently offers about 750 links. This site is new and has not yet developed much traffic.
Take a Course
- TOURBUS Home Page
- http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm
"TOURBUS is a virtual tour of the best of the Internet, delivered by e-mail to over 50,000 people in 100+ countries."
Web News and Views
- CNET
- http://www.cnet.com
cnet site offers a variety of features and updates on online and Internet happenings. Good commentary and software reviews. - Internet World Online
- http://www.internetworld.com
News and features focusing on the Internet. - Media Central
- http://www.mediacentral.com/
Cowles Business Media's links to its online publications. A good place to explore what's happening in new media. - NewsPage Home Page
- http://www.newspage.com
Claims to be "the Web's leading source of daily business news, with over 600 information sources and thousands of news stories updated daily" but the interface is awkward, and many stories require payment to see the full text. - Suck
- http://www.suck.com/
Suck's daily view on the web. Avante Garde meets the commercial world.
Magazines and Newspapers on the Web
- Online Newspapers on the Web
- http://www.intercom.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm
Links to online newspapers around the world. - Online Newspapers
- http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm
Links to online newspapers around the world, alphabetical by country and updated daily. - Online Newspapers on the Web
- http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/npaper/nphtm/online.htm
Editor and Publisher's datasbase directory of the World's online newspapers. - Ecola's Newsstand
- http://www.ecola.com/news/
Links to many publications available on the Net. - This week's TIME Magazine, Internet edition
- http://pathfinder.com/@@@8sJxQYAZJ03vwHE/time/magazine/
Time Magazine's Web offering. - Microsoft's Computer Magazine Links
- http://library.microsoft.com/compmags.htm
Very good links to online computer magazines. - InfoWorld Electric Page One
- http://www.infoworld.com/
A web site from InfoWorld, a top computer magazine. - AboutUSA TODAY
- http://www.usatoday.com/
USA Today's Online offering. - The Gate
- http://www.sfgate.com/
The San Francisco Chronicle's Online offering.
New Ways to Get Your News
- PointCast Home Page
- http://www.pointcast.com/
"The PointCast Network is a personalized news network and you're the head of programming." PointCast is a very popular site because it allows you to set up a screen saver on your computer that incorporates news and information direct from the Internet. - Create Your Own Newspaper
- http://crayon.net/
One of a new breed of web sites giving you the opportunity to build your own newspaper so you can get the news you want from a worldwide set of sources in the format you want. (Put the comics first if thats the way you like it).
Software for the Web
- Stroud's CWSApps List-Wilmington
- http://cws.internet.com/
Stroud's site has excellent reviews of Internet software, and the links to download that software. Well written, well designed and well worth a visit. - ZD Net Software Library
- http://www.hotfiles.com/index.html
Another excellent source of software, with reviews and easy downloads.
Cool Places
- HST Greatest Hits 1990-1995 Gallery
- http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/BestOfHST95.html
The Hubble Space Telescope's Greatest Hits 1990-1995. Planets, galaxies, a supernova and a black hole. - Cool Site of the Day
- http://cool.infi.net/
The Original Cool Site of the Day. There are now tons of sites of this kind. - Mapquest
- http://www.mapquest.com/
An interactive map that lets you find geographic details and get driving directions.
Kids Stuff
- Exploratorium Home Page
- http://www.exploratorium.edu/
The Exploratorium is a well known interactive children's museum in San Francisco. It now maintains online exhibits, including electronic versions of a few of the Exploratorium's famous interactive exhibits. - Live from Mars
- http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/
In late 1996 NASA will launch two missions to Mars. By participating in the Live from Mars project, students can travel along! The project is targeted at the middle school grade levels, but will have appeal above and below that range. - Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
- http://www.enc.org/
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC) is a nationally recognized information source for K-12 mathematics and science teachers. - Global SchoolNet Foundation Home Page
- http://www.gsn.org/
This site provides a wealth of information for students and teachers interested in using the Internet.
Literature on the Web
Electronic Texts
- Project Guttenburg
- http://www.promo.net/pg/
Project Guttenburg is an electronic publishing project begun in the 1970s that is attempting to make literature available in searchable electronic form.
The project also provides Links to other electronic texts on the Internet. - The EText Archives
- http://www.etext.org/ "The Etext Archives (est. 1992) are home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our duty is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content."
- BookWire
- http://www.bookwire.com/
"BookWire is the most comprehensive guide to the book-related resources of the Internet." Literary criticism, book publishing information and links to electronic books in the public domain.
Shakespeare
- Shakespeare
- http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
"[T]he Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare."
Problem Solving on the Web
- Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web
- http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm
It is difficult to find things on the Web and things promise to get worse. This page sets out some possible organizational systems for Web information. - The Year 2000 Information Center
- http://www.year2000.com/cgi-bin/y2k/year2000.cgi
The year 2000 problem is discussed here.
Links to Answers
- Product ReviewNet
- http://www.productreviewnet.com/
Searchable database of product reviews, including reviews from Consumer Reports and other sources. - Ask the Dietitian
- http://www.hoptechno.com/rdindex.htm
Information on diet and related subjects. - Ask the Pro
- http://www.playersedge.com/ask.html
Professional blackjack player answers e-mail gambling questions. - Debt Counselors of America
- http://dca.org/
Nonprofit debt counseling organization provides financial advice.
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