Computers PC Computing Magazine http http://www.pc-computing.ziff.com/~pccomp PC Computing Magazine stuff no one home Computers John December http http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/internet-tools.html Internet tools Author of World Web Unleased, reviews of Web tools (tools also available) Education NASA http http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/scripts/JASON.html The Jason Project. Student interactive field trips to far away places. Dr. R Ballard, discover of RMS Titanic is moderator Education U of C, Berkeley Gopher gopher to infolib.lib.berkeley Research Databaes Select Electronic Journals, then Research Databases, then Business Government Social Security Administration http http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html/ SSA Online History, forms, benefits, polices, stats, FAQs... Government Small Business Administration http http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov SBA Starting, financing, and expanding your business. Stats etc. Finance QuoteComm, Inc http http://www.quote.com/ QuoteComm Quotes, options, newletters, bonds, markets, etc. Finance GNN Personal Finance Center http http://www.digital.com/gnn/meta/finance/index.html GNN Personal Finance Personal finance weekly newletters, e-mail, topics, Motgages etc. AccessProvider CyberGate Services Inc http http://www.gate.net/ CyberGate Access Provider Misc services available. Software Netscape Communications Corp. http http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-cool.html Netscape misc sevices Home page of Netscape Browser software which I use. Finance Master Card International http http://www.mastercard.com/home-g.htm Master Card service center apply for a card, get info on your card, stories Townhall Internet Multicasting Services http http://town.hall.org/ Townhall meetings, access to govt dbs gov't dbs, talk radio, radio on Internet Government Via Internet Multicasting Services http http://town.hall.org/govt/govt.html access to govt databases SEC Edgar, US Patent Office, GSA, Fed Reserve Corporations Empire Tech Inc http http://www.empiretech.com/empiretech Corporations Verity http http://www.verity.com/ Corporations Cisco Systems http http://www.cisco.com/ Corporations MCI http http://www.internetmci.com/ Corporations Quantum Corp http http://www.quantum.com/ Corporations Softbank Expos http http://programs.interop.com/ Corporations SSDS http http://www.ssds.com/ Corporations Sun Microsystems http http://www.sun.com/ Corporations WAIS Inc http http://www.wais.com/ Corporations WETA http http://www.weta.com/ Corporations O'Reilly & Assoc http http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/gnn.html Corporations Persoft http http://www.persoft.com/ Corporations Progressive Networks http http://www.realaudio.com/ Entertainment NBC http http://www.nbctonightshow.com/ Tonight Show Education NY University http http://www.nyu.edu/ New York University Movies MCA Movies http http://www.mca.com/ movie previews Casper, apollo 13, Movies Paramont Pictures http http://www.paramount.com/ congo Movies Dsiney Motion Pictures http http://www.disney.com/ movies Pocahontas 8.7 meg trailor, took forever to download. Movies Warner Brothers http http://batmanforever.com/ Batman Forever Movie Education Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Interhttp http://www.lib.umich.edu/chhome.html Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Inter Here you'll find Web links arranged mainly in educational categories, such as the humanities, social sciences, and science. Internet CUI W3 Catalog http http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog CUI W3 Catalog The CUI W3 is a useful searchable interface to several manually maintained Internet catalogs. They come courtesy of the UniversiInternet EINet Galaxy http http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html EINet Galaxy EINet Galaxy is one of the most exhaustive directories of Internet resources. It's fully searchable, too. Internet The Global Network Navigator (GNN) http http://gnn.com The Global Network Navigator (GNN) O'Reilly and Associates provides access to the Whole Internet Catalog, an on-line marketplace and several special-interest newslInternet The Harvest Information Discovery and Achttp http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/ The Harvest Information Discovery and Ac At this search site, you can build brokers that assist in conducting high-powered searches for Internet info. It's a very ambitiEducation Infomine http http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govpub/ Infomine This home page from the University of California, Riverside, provides a good collection of links to federal government sites. Internet InfoSeek http http://www.infoseek.com InfoSeek InfoSeek is a subscription search tool ($9.95 per month) that yields highly accurate results to plain English queries. The fee iInternet InterNIC Directory & Database Services http http://ds.internic.net/ InterNIC Directory & Database Services This directory contains huge searchable databases of Internet resources, provided by AT&T, General Atomics, and Network SolutionInternet JumpStation http http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/js JumpStation JumpStation uses robots to go out and compile Web indexes by subject, title, and document header. Be warned: The search results Education List of American Universities http http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS?american-universities.html List of American Universities This home page is nothing more than a list of links to more than 150 college and university home universities.html pages. CheckInternet Lycos http http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu" Lycos Lycos is Carnegie-Mellon's well-known Internet search tool. It's massive and sometimes painfully overburdened, even though severInternet Mother-of-all-BBS http http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/bb/summary.html Mother-of-all-BBS Here's another subject-oriented index of Web pages. This one solicits information summary.html about new sites from users. Internet Netsurfer Digest http http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html Netsurfer Digest The Digest is a free weekly magazine focusing on Web news. You have to subscribe, and when you do, you request delivery either aInternet Nexor Public Services http http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/welcome.html Nexor Public Services Here's another popular search tool, with powerful directories that perform keyword searches across the Web. Internet Open Market's Commercial Sites Index http http://www.directory.net Open Market's Commercial Sites Index Here's a useful list of more than 2,500 links to commercial, government, and nonprofit home pages. Internet Special Internet Connections http http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html Special Internet Connections Scott Yanoff maintains this huge list of links, which is organized into 40 main categories. Education University of North Carolina Heliocentrihttp http://sunsite.unc.edu/heliocentric.html University of North Carolina Heliocentri Take a look at this interesting home page, notable mainly for its circular menu, which places the Chapel Hill campus at the centEducation Virtual Town http http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/virt-town/welcome.html Virtual Town This Web index is presented as a colorful aerial view of a town. Click on the place you want to go. Note that it's currently undEducation WebCrawler http http://webcrawler.cs.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html WebCrawler The WebCrawler contains 350,000 Web documents indexed for keyword searches. 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Internet The WWW Virtual Library http http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html The WWW Virtual Library Another good place to start exploring if you have a particular topic in mind, the Virtual Library includes topical and geographiEducation Yahoo http http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/ Yahoo Yahoo is a massive, essential index of Web pages organized into categories. It also includes a search tool. Watch out: It's popuGovernment Central Intelligence Agency http http://www.ic.gov/ Central Intelligence Agency Peek behind the veil at the company and find some interesting information about trouble spots all around the world. Government Environmental Protection Agency http http://www.epa.gov/ Environmental Protection Agency At this site you'll find out everything you need to know about the environment, and unlike many other government home pages, thiGovernment Federal Bureau of Investigation http http://naic.nasa.gov/fbi Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI provides the ten-most-wanted list and other G-man necessities. You can also read the latest about serial bomber UNABOM aGovernment FedWorld Information Network http http://www.fedworld.gov FedWorld Information Network The National Technical Information Service provides this site for you to look up and order information. It also offers links to Education Library of Congress http http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html Library of Congress This is an essential stop on your Web tour. 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Games Games Domain http http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/ Games Domain The Games Domain is a one-stop location for information about and links to computer games as GamesDomain well as on-line InterneEntertainment HotWired http http://www.hotwired.com HotWired Wired magazine's on-line equivalent is a great Web implementation that gives a taste of what to expect from on-line magazines inEntertainment Hype ElectraZine http http://www.phantom.com/~giant/hype.html Hype ElectraZine This is currently one of the coolest e-zines on-line, with some dazzling graphics, terrifically entertaining content, and links Education Interesting Places for Kids http http://www.crc.ricoh.com/people/steve/kids.html Interesting Places for Kids If you have school-age kids, take advantage of this list of links to hundreds of fun places to explore. 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There's information here on everything from ProShare to the P6. Computers Lotus Development Corp. http http://www.lotus.com Lotus Development Corp. This is a test site for the InterNotes Web Server, which connects Lotus Notes to the Web.Cutting-edge technology is on display. Computers Microsoft Corp. http http://www.microsoft.com Microsoft Corp. Here you'll find everything you wanted to know about Microsoft and its products, including the latest on Windows 95 and even somComputers NCSA http http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/NCSAHome.html NCSA Stop off at the site where the Mosaic browser was born. This is a good page for late-breaking Web news. Computers NEC Corp. http http://www.nec.com NEC Corp. NEC's site contains product information in both English and Japanese. Computers Netcom On-Line Communication Services http http://www.netcom.com Netcom On-Line Communication Services The makers of the NetCruiser browser use this "Home Port" to gather lots of diverse Web links. Computers Netscape Communications Corp. http http://www.mcom.com Netscape Communications Corp. Netscape is the home of Netscape Navigator, the most popular Web browser. It's a fun site, crowded with interesting links. Computers Novell Inc. http http://www.novell.com Novell Inc. This well-designed home page takes you to information about the company's products and services. Computers Oracle Corp. http http://www.oracle.com Oracle Corp. Drive down Oracle's information highway to get product information, white papers, and information about the company and its prodComputers Performance Systems International Inc. http http://www.psi.net Performance Systems International Inc. PSI is the largest provider of Internet services. This home page explains what PSI does and how. Computers Silicon Graphics Inc. http http://www.sgi.com Silicon Graphics Inc. You'd expect cool graphics here, and you get them in spades. The screens take forever to download, but a text-only version of thComputers Spry Inc. http http://www.spry.com Spry Inc. Learn more about Internet-in-a-Box and Mosaic-in-a-Box, two of Spry's popular Internet-access products. Computers Sun Microsystems Inc. http http://www.sun.com Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun provides the usual product information, but the page also has links to SunSites, Sun-sponsored Web servers at several univerComputers Sybase Inc. http http://www.sybase.com Sybase Inc. Learn all about Sybase and experience what it's like to connect to Sybase SQL Server viathe Web. Computers Taligent Inc. http http://www.taligent.com Taligent Inc. This page provides a good example of a company with complex products making information about them available in a fun and accessComputers Ziff-Davis Publishing http http://www.ziff.com Ziff-Davis Publishing Here's one-click access to PC Magazine and eight other computer publications. 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Legal Trade Law http http://ananse.irv.uit.no/law/nav/law_ref.html Trade Law There's still some construction going on here, but already there are great international links for trade information, and you caGovernment U.S. Patent and Trademark Office http http://www.uspto.gov/ U.S. Patent and Trademark Office You can't search patents on-line yet, but this intellectual property site has plenty of information about copyrights and patents