Older But Maybe Still Hot Links

This list may contain stale links. Most of these were compiled in the 1st half of 1994. I have tried to keep it updated but the WWW is growing faster than i can type. For that reason, i have placed some fresh links prior to this list. However, many if not most if not all of these older links are still active.

Agricultural Information, Food & Nutrition

livestock reports, current market prices, etc

• PENpages(login: PNOTPA),
• ATI-NET(login: super)
• CUFAN (Clemson U Forestry & Ag. Net)(login: PUBLIC)

American Philosophers Association

BBS for APA

• BBS(login: apa)

Archie (interactive search)

Search Anonymous FTP Sites for files by substring

• SURAnet(login: archie)
• University Nebraska at Lincoln(login: archie)
• Sapporo School of the Arts(login: archie)
• Rutgers(login: archie)

Art and Art History

Resources of interest to classicists, archaeologists, art historians, etc

• Le WebLouvre
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology at the Univ. of Michigan

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Stars and stuff

• astronomy server
• French version
• The University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• The Center for EUV Astrophysics, UCB

Auroral/Solar Reports

• Aurora
• Solar
• Daily

Australia

Information about Australia

• Guide to Australia

Backgammon Servers

Play Backgammon

• ouzo(login: guest)

Billboard Charts

U.S. Top Pop Singles for the week

• rpi.edu

Biology

Animals

• ANU Bioinformatics

Blues Brothers

A whole section of this list just for the Blues Brothers

• The FAQ for alt.fan.blues-brothers

Botony

Plants

• Australian National Botanic Gardens

CancerNet

Cancer information

• National Institute of Health

CARL

Online Database, boook reviews, magazine fax delivery services

• pac.carl.org

CHAT

Interactive AIDs & Epilepsy documents

• go(login: chat)

Chess Server

Play/Watch real-time chess with human opponents

• Chess(for help type 'help')

The CIA World Factbook

Facts on just about everything collected by the CIA

• CIA World Factbook

Cognitive Science

A Web server on computational phonology.

• Cognitive Science at Edinburgh

Complex Systems

Complex Systems Newsgroups, Ftp Sites, etc.

• Complex Systems Resources

Cookie Server

Funny quote or saying

• quote

CYBSYS

Cybernetics and Systems Theory

• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Cybernetics and Systems Theory

Dartmouth Library

Divine Comedy and reviews

Read/Find passages in the King James Bible (select file bible)

Read/Find passages in Shakespeare's plays (select file s plays)

Read/Find pages in Shakespeare's sonnets (select file s sonnets)

• danta(connect dante)

Doctor Fun

A continuing cartoon updated each weekday

• Dr. Fun

DREN

The networking component of the DoD high performance computing modernization

• Defense Research and Engineering Network

DUATS

Aviation weather, flight planning

• For Certified Pilots(login: last name)
• For the uncertified(login: last name)

Earthquake Information

Recent quake location, time, magnitude

• quake

E-Math

American Mathematics Society BBS with Software and Reviews

• BBS(login: e-math)

Educational Technology Net

Forums and discussion groups on medical technology and education

• Educational and Teaching Resources
• Forum(login: etnet)

Entertainment Information

Resources and information relevant to the Entertainment Industry

• The Prisoner TV series
• Adam Curry's MTV Web server

Environmental Information

Resources and information relevant to the Environment

• Environmental Resources Information Network (Australia)

FAQ

A collection of Internet FAQs

• Internet FAQ set

FDA BBS

U.S. Food and Drug Administration news releases, AIDs information, and consumer information

• bbs(login: bbs)

FEDIX

Information on scholarships, minority assistance, etc

• bbs(login: fedix)

Flags

All kinds of flags - semaphores, track signals, etc

• flag server
• semaphore alphabet
• race track signal flags
• international marine signal flags
• easier to draw national flags

Folk Songs

Interactive search of databases of folk music

• Digital Tradition

Internet Font Browser

Check out these fonts available as freeware or shareware

• Font Browser

Fractals

Self-similar Mathematical Beauties

• Images from CRI Universite

Freenet

USA Today, Headline News, Sports

• SITE1(login: visitor)
• SITE2(login: visitor)
• SITE3(login: visitor)
• SITE4(login: visitor)

Geographic Servers

Population, Latitude/Longitude, Elevation, by city or area code

• server

Land use maps of US, graphs/data of geological information from US Geological Survey

• USGS(login: guest)

Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory

• University of Buffalo

Global Network Navigator

An internet-based Information Center produced by O'Reilly & Associates

• GNN

GNU Bulletin

An exhaustive catalogue of GNU activities

• GNU Bulletin

GO Server

Play the game of GO against others

• Berkeley

Gopher

Access to documents and other services

• umn.edu
• virginia.edu(login: gwis)
• uiowa.edu
• peachnet.edu
• uiuc.edu
• csc.wsu.edu(Login: wsuinfo)
• cornell.edu
• csuohio.edu
• ohiolink.edu
• cmu.edu(password: envirolink)
• wisc.edu(Login: wiscinfo)
• unc.edu
• msu.edu
• ORA.com
• tu-graz.ac.at(Login: info)
• anu.edu.au(Aussie)
• nstn.ns.ca(login: fred)
• tolten.puc.cl(Chile)
• denet.dk(Denmark)
• th-darmstadt.de
• ecnet.ec
• virginia.edu
• isnet.is
• mi.cnr.it(Italy)
• sunet.se(Sweden)
• chalmers.se(Sweden)
• ac.uk(login: info)
• MSEN

Ham Radio Callbooks

National ham radio call-sign callbook

• buffalo.edu
• njit.edu

History Databases

History and Commonwealth of Independent States information

• history(login: history)
• CWIS(login: ex-ussr)

HP Calculator BBS

BBS for HP Caculator users with chat mode

• BBS(login: new)

Hpcwire

Menu-driven information searches

• server(login: hpcwire)

Httpd Documentation

Online hypertext documentation including installation instructions, etc.

• online httpd doc

Hypermedia and the Internet

Information about Hypermedia and the Internet

• ANU Bioinformatics

Hytelnet Server

University and Library catalogs around the world

• usask.ca(login: hytelnet)
• anu.edu.au(login: library)

Rutgers CWIS

Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotations Database

• info

Index Servers

Searchable catalogues of WWW resources

• Global Network Academy Meta-Library Index
• Catalog at Geneva, Switzerland

Info/Software Server

Journals, unix stuff, recipes, online cookbook

• uni-stuttgart.de(login: info)

INRIA

• INRIA

InterNIC

Various services and lots of internet information

• NIC

InterText Magazine

An electronically-distributed bi-monthly fiction magazine

• InterText

Iowa Political Stock Market

Buy & sell shares in political candidates

• buy

IRC Telnet Client

Internet Relay Chat

• cc.edu(login: irc)
• cmu.edu(login: irc)

Ireland : The Internet Collection

A collection of Internet resources on Ireland

• Ireland

ISAAC

Information System for Advanced Academic Computing

• ISAAC

Jobs

Outplacement, recruiting, career counseling, ...

• Online Career Center

Law Library

Law Libraries and Legal Research, offers copies of laws for each state, computer laws, and more!

• law(login: lawlib)
• LawTalk

Law/Judicial information and catalogs

• lawnet(login: lawnet)

Library of Congress

Library of Congress Information System

• LOCIS

LIBS

multiservice access

• wwu.edu(login: LIBS)
• anu.edu.au(login: LIBS)

Lunar/Planetary Institute

Resources on Geology, Geophysics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics

• lpi(login: lpi)

Line oriented W3 browsers (Lynx)

Mostly stuff for and about Lynx

• ftp-able Lynx source
• Nova-Links

Mathematics

University Mathematics Departments and other Mathematics related servers

• The Visual Math Institute at the University of California at Santa Cruz
• The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota
• American Mathematical Society
• Arizona State University, Mathematics Deparment
• Brigham Young, Mathematics Department
• Ecole Normale SupΘrieure, DΘpartement de MathΘmatiques
• Lake Forest College Math/CS
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (ftp archives)
• Northwestern University, Math Department Information Server
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Gopher
• University of California Berkeley (ftp archives)
• University of Michigan, Math Department Gopher
• University of South Carolina, Mathematics Department
• Univ of Texas, Math Department
• Univ of Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics
• University of Wisconsin, Mathematics Department
• Wayne State University, Mathematics Department
• University of Heidelberg, Inst. of Pure Math
• Computer Algebra Netherland (CAN)
• Euromath gopher server (Denmark)
• Mathematical Topics at Center of Scientific Computing, Finland
• NSF Science and Technology Information System (STIS)

Medicine

Clinical, toxicological, and biomedical research information resources

• HyperDOC
• History of Medicine

MicroMUSE

Educational Multi-User Simulated Environment

• MUSE(login: guest)

MOLIS

Minority Online Information Service

• MOLIS(login: molis)

Monochrome

Multi-user messaging system (with chat)

• mono(login: mono)

MUDs and MOOs

Object-oriented Multi-User-Dungeons

• General Mud Data Sheet
• UU-GNA Virtual Campus
• Unofficial List of MUDs
• Another Unofficial List of MUDs
• Xerox PARC MOO
• Xerox PARC MOO ftp site
• Linkping University's Lysator
• MUD as a Psychological Model

Multimedia

Sites with info on multimedia

• Index

NASA Headline News

Daily press releases from NASA

• news

NASA's Planetary Data System

Located at MIT, is concerned with the archival and distribution of planetary radar and radiometry data. It maintains a small on-line collection of images and text describing the Magellan, Venera 15/16, and Pioneer 12 experiments to map the planet Venus.

• The Microwave subnode of NASA's Planetary Data System

NASA World Wide Web information servers

Services available at various NASA research centers

• NASA Home Page
• Ames Research Center
• Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Johnson Space Center
• Kennedy Space Center
• Langley Research Center
• Lewis Research Center
• Marshall Space Flight Center
• NASA/Science and Technical Information Center
• NASA Online
• Government Online

NASA SpaceLink

Latest NASA news, including shuttle launches and satellite updates

• NASA

National Education BBS

A limited-access system for NESP educators

• NESP(login: guest)

National Health Security Act

The full text of the Presidents report, together with the text of the legislation

• NHS

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Information on the programs and activities of NIST

• NIST info

National Information Infrastructure Database

Information on the "Information Superhighway"

• NII info
• NII Testbed project

NED

NASA Extragalactic Database

• NED(login: ned)

NCSA

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• Internet Resources Meta-Index
• Graphical Map of Internet Resources
• What's New With NCSA Mosaic
• Eric Bina's Community Hotlist

Netfind

Find users on the net

• colorado.edu(login: netfind)
• umn.edu(login: netfind)
• uab.edu(login: netfind)
• oc.com(login: netfind)
• au(login: netfind)
• puc.cl(login: netfind)
• uakom.cs(login: netfind)
• technet.sg(login: netfind)
• ac.uk(login: netfind)
• conicit.ve(login: netfind)

Newton

BBS for those teaching/studying science, CS, and math

• BBS(login: cocotext)

NICOL

Electronic Publishing Service

• NICOL(login: nicol)

NICOLAS

Network Information Center OnLine Aid System

• NICOLAS(login: dftnic)

Nielsen TV Ratings

Weekly TV Ratings according to the Nielsen rating system

• ratings

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• NOAA(login: NOAADIR)

NODIS

Menu-driven access to National Space Science Data Center

• System1(login: nodis)
• System2(login: nodis)

Nuclear Data Center

National nuclear data

• NDC(login: nndc)

Oceanic Information Center

National Oceanic Information Center

• OIC(login: info)

The Museum of Paleontology

An on-line exhibit from UC-Berkeley including image-map navigation

• The new UC-Berkeley Museum of Paleontology home page
• The Entrance Hall
• Hall of Dinosaurs
• The Hall of Mammals
• Primitive Tetrapods
• The Invertebrate Hall
• The Gift Shop

Physics

University, Government and Industry Physics Departments

• Brown University Physics Department
• Brown University High Energy Physics
• Nuclear and High Energy Physics Information Service (LANL)
• Univ of Chicago Physics Resources (experimental)
• Brookhaven National Lab
• The University of Innsbruck

QUERRI

University Extension and Regional Research Information

• querri(login: querri)

Shakespeare

Info by and about the Bard

• The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Southwest Research Institute

Software Research Data Display & Analysis Center

• telnet server

Software Server

Online Software Search (ASK)

• ASK(login: ask)

SpaceMet

Science/space BBS

• BBS

Sports Schedules

Sports schedules online. help for help, return for today's games

• NBA
• NHL
• MLB
• NFL

STIS

National Science and Technology Information System

• STIS(login: public)

Stock Market Report

Public Access UNIX for a fee, market report is free!

• UNIX(login: guest)

Trace Wars

Play the online multiplayer game on Trade Wars World BBS

• BBS

Institute for Transportation Research and Education

Located at the University of North Carolina

• ITRE

Tropical Storm Forcast

Seasonal forecast for Atlantic Ocean

• forecast

UMD Information Database

Information on many subjects including supreme court decisions

• UMD(login: info)

Virtual Campus

An object-oriented MUD for real-time interaction between students and teachers

• UU-GNA Virtual Campus

WAIS, Mosaic, Http, Image Maps, Internet, ...

Info on Wide Area Information Servers and associated tools

• Mosaic/WAIS Tutorial
• Http/WAIS Integration
• Graphical Information Map Tutorial
• Mosaic User Authentication Tutorial
• Automatic Distributed Indexing experiment
• Internet tools for Network Information Retrieval
• Html Writer's Style Guide

WWW Servers

Miscellaneous World Wide Web Servers, Gopher Servers, ...

• The Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo
• University of Limerick
• Tunnelling Through the Internet
• Linux Information
• Registered WWW servers
• National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications
• Rutgers University
• UCLA
• EDV-Lab at the Technical University of Vienna
• UK VR-SIG
• The University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• University of Waikato
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Space Remote Sensing Center
• Novell's Home Page
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) is running a new Web server. The server currently gives access to information from various LBL projects, such as the Conference on Computing in High Energy Physics 1994 (CHEP), the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Project, the LBL Particle Data Group, and the ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Online Services. The server also gives access to online versions of the scientific articles from LBL's Research Magazine, and the articles from LBL's Computing Newsletter, among other LBL publications and documents. LBL will naturally include more information in the future; for example, they anticipate information from their Human Genome Project.

• The Computer Science Institute at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. The Jackson Laboratory is a nonprofit research laboratory in the area of mammalian genetics.
• A new server of interest to those working on the Human Genome Project, at the Harvard Biolabs
• SuperJANET, the advanced high speed academic network in the UK and the successor to JANET. The DOS Internet Kit at the Web server on tbone.biol.scarolina.edu)

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