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Table of Contents
Getting connected via...
Apple-Internet (eWorld)
- Apple-Internet:
How to use Apple Computers to link into the 'Net via eWorld.
DOS
- SlipIt! How to
install & use SlitIt!, Crosspoint (XP), and YARN.
OS/2 Warp
Windows 3.x/'95
- Free Agent:
Forte is pleased to announce version 0.55 of our Free Agent
newsreader. This is a beta upissue release; it adds no major
functionality but includes a number of minor improvements and bug
fixes, most notably in navigation, binary decoding, and email sending.
- Netmanage:
How to install & use Netmanage's Internet Chameleon and Chameleon NFS
suite of programs.
- Trumpet:
How to install & use Trumpet's Winsock 2.0b software.
- CWS Apps:
The Consummate Winsock Apps List for Windows 3.x and Windows'95.
(Includes pointer to
The Unofficial Windows'95
archive.)
- Stardust: more information on
Winsock v1.x & 2.x than you ever wanted to know.
- Windows'95:
The TCP/IP Setup FAQ.
On the MBONE tonite...
- DECUS live
Those with access to MBone technology will be able to view live
presentations from speakers including Internet pioneers Tim Berners-Lee
and Marc Andreessen; Enrico Pesatori, vice president and general manager
of Digital Equipment Corporation's Computer Systems Division; and
networking and security expert, executive vice president of Network-1,
Dr. Bill Hancock.
Transmissions are expected to be multicast Monday, May 8 at 8:30 A.M.;
and Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 9 - 11, at 8:00 A.M. Eastern
Time.
- Computer Club from CeBIT'95 (Audio & Video):
GMD and WDR broadcast live television show on the Internet.
- Seminar (Audio & Video):
Kenny Paterson on the Discrete Fourier Transform and Linear Complexity See.
- The JASON project (Audio & Video):
Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the R.M.S. Titanic and founder of the JASON
Project, talks about the purpose of the Jason Project.
- IMS: Internet Town Hall
(Audio)
- IMS: U.S. House
(Audio)
- IMS: U.S. Senate
(Audio)
- IMS: World Radio Network
(Audio) 24 hours a day
- NASA Select (Audio & Video):
The Space Shuttle Mission Astro-2/STS-67;
24 hours a day
- METEOSAT images (JPEG):
24 hours a day
WebWork by Experts
Simply the best!
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VH-1 derland / [vee] [age] [wonderland]
VH-1 ist da! Am dem 4.Mai um 22:00 Uhr drückte David Bowie den Startknopf.
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Bead & Breakfast Inns they even exist in the USA!
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NASA Headquarter's Website of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration public affairs division.
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Tables-Of-Contents, Inc.:
The Latest Covers and TABLES-OF-CONTENTS for the 167 TOP Magazines for
Computers, Sports, Science, Electronic & Computer Games, and Music &
Entertainment. (Updated Every Monday)
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Comic Relief Red Noses in Cyberspace:
Welcome to the Comic Relief world wide web server, Red Noses in
Cyberspace.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus:
All the sounds you really need to know...
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Personal Ads:
This is a sanctuary, a gathering space, a sundrenched meadow soaked with sounds and smells
of springtime, forever youth, giddy and often unbridled expectation... such is the promised land of
the public.com personals. Here hope, and we daresay love, reaffirm themselves as essential
elements of the human condition. Before you proceed, a little help with our interface might be
useful.
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Fußball Bundesliga: Statistik Saison 1994/95; und das ganze
nocheinmal an der Uni in Dortmund.
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VolcalTec:
Free Phone Calls Over The Internet!
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Link Everything Online (LEO) in München:
Der beste Überblick im deutschsprachigen Raum.
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What's Cool:
The coolest links to the coolest places from the cool creators of
Netscape (cool!).
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Lateshow:
David Letterman's Late Show is online.
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FINS:
The Fish Information Service.
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Internet: The Cyberian Connection:
Das Video zum Netz von Purple Training Ltd, UK.
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Star TREK:
Neues zum Raumschiff Enterprise und
seinen Nachfolgern.
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PizzaNet:
Mafiatorten zum Selberbasteln.
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Subway Navigator:
enthält eine Liste von Verweisen auf Fahrpläne weltweit.
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Deutsche Welle:
Rundfunk und Fernsehen im Internet.
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Best of the Web '94:
Award winners, honors, and nominees.
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Virtual Tourist:
Take a walk around the world.
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City.Net:
The most comprehensive international guide to communities around the world. City.Net provides easy and timely access to
information on travel, entertainment, and local business, plus government and
community services for all regions of the world. (Sequel to the Virtual Tourist).
Electronic News, Magazines and Media Outlets
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Die Welt:
jetzt auch als elektronische Version im Web.
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digiTAZ: die tageszeitung:
jetzt auch als elektronische Version im Web.
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Today Communications Worldwide:
Every news bit you can think of, and matters today, here it is...!
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Online Intelligence (OLIN) project:
Within the various departments on the page, you will find links to some
familiar US/UN resources such as the State/Defense Depts, World Bank, and
so forth. Resources in the regional bureaus, however may be less familiar
and are quite varied.
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Newslink:
179 newspapers,
164 broadcast networks and affiliates,
131 magazines, journals and publishers,
156 sites of special journalistic interest.
- NewsPage: the first online news
service built to give you easy access to the information you need. With more
than 25,000 pages refreshed daily, NewsPage is one of the deepest, most
comprehensive sites on the Web. Take advantage of our new service during its
free trial period,by registering now. To use NewsPage, simply select an
industry and drill your way through categories and topics to today's news, hot
off the virtual presses. Feel free to bookmark your favorite places, and come
any time.
- MAG3: das Magazin mit der
Titelleiste. MAG3 ist das erste deutsche Magazin, das nur im WWW existiert.
- Infobahn: INFOBAHN, a bimonthly,
internationally-distributed magazine for users of the Internet, will debut in
June 1995. INFOBAHN will examine the Net from a cultural and intellectual
point of view, focusing on policy issues, business, lifestyles, technology,
and the arts.
- Stellar
Business: The International Edition of the Stellar Business Magazine.
- National Computer Tectonics: The
computer magazine for small and home business computer users National Computer
Tectonics magazine is now available on the World Wide Web, featuring over 400
pages of news and reviews. With in depth articles and reviews of software,
hardware, and books, NCT is a "must read" information source for small and
home business computer users as well as anyone interested in the latest
information about new computer products.
- Playboy Magazine:
Alles was (alten) Männern Spaß macht.
- Der SPIEGEL:
Deutschlands Nachrichtenmagazin #1 jetzt auch im Internet.
- Time Magazine:
USA #1 news magazine online.
- Pathfinder:
Time Warner also joins the World-Wide Web community.
- InDOnet:
The University of Dortmund (UniDO) student's 'net version of the InDOpendent
news magazine.
- FutureNet:
The Future magazine from Future publishing.
FreeWare-oriented Organizations & Projects
- PGP:
The pretty good privacy encoder by Phil Zimmerman.
- MuPAD:
Die Alternative zu Maple und Mathematica aus Paderborn.
- Kermit:
The C Kermit project of Frank Da Cruz at Columbia University, New York, NY.
- LPF:
Everything on the League for Programming Freedom.
- GNU:
Everything on the Free Software Foundation's GNU project.
- Cygnus:
The commecial GNU-only supporters.
- FreeBSD:
Everything on Free BSD.
Education, Research & Development
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GMD:
Die Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, in Sankt Augustin bei
Bonn. (The German National Research Center for Computer Science.)
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ZUDIS:
Das zentrale Umweltdaten-Informationssystem an der Universität Karlsruhe.
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The World-Wide Earthquake Locator: was developed in Edinburgh very much as an
illustration of what is possible using the World-Wide Web and the
internet. It relates to work we have done building an earthquake analysis
system using data dynamically obtained over the internet.
The system uses data available from the USGS National Earthquake Information
Center within hours of an earthquake having taken place. The data is mapped
using the Xerox PARC Map Viewer.
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The Face Of Venus: An Interactive Atlas Database And Document:
The Face of Venus (FOV) is an interactive document, database and
atlas of surface features of the planet Venus.
- RAND:
In 1991, RAND (a policy research institute based in Santa Monica, CA)
established a research program known as the Institute on Education and
Training (IET).
- 100 Jahre Röntgen:
Eine Ausstellung an der Uni Würzburg.
- ESP:
The European School Project's website.
- Kid's Web:
A World Wide Web digital library for schoolchildren.
One of the problems with using the Web is that downloading information
can be very slow, since currently the Information Superhighway more
closely resembles a dirt road. One of our goals is to use Web caching
technology to store the documents on Kid's Web on a centralized server
at NPAC. This will allow the information on Kid's Web to be accessed much
more rapidly by students in these schools.
- WISE:
WISE Information Board on R&D Activities in the European Union.
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Karl Sims' ``Evolved Virtual Creatures'': (9MB MPEG movie)
From Gero von Boehms feature on Artificial Life, entitled ``Faust III'',
ARD, 6. Oct 1994.
- Universität Dortmund:
Computer Sciences Department at Dortmund University (Germany).
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):
The First Society in Computing.
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center:
Very nice, really.
- MIT Weather service:
Have a look at the US weather.
- The Daily Planet:
by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois.
- Globewide Network
Academy:
A non-profit corporation, affiliated with the Usenet University project.
Political Organizations
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BMBF: das Deutsche Bundesministerium Bildung und Forschung.
- ECHO:
The European Community's World-Wide Web Server.
- GATT:
The version of GATT on the UM-St. Louis "The Library" gopher is a mirror
of copies existing on gophers maintained by the Department of Commerce,
and the USDA.
- EUROPOLE: This
site presents our association and its purposes, and a large and freqently
updated list of URL about european subjects. It is translated in English,
French and German. You are administrator of a WWW site related to European
questions, please add a link to our page from your hotlist.
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GREENPEACE: the Webserver of the Amsterdam section.
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The Internet Roundtable Society:, sponsored by Amnesty International.
- The U.S. House of Representatives:
With the start of the 104th Congress, the House leadership
approved release of the official U.S. House of Representatives
World Wide Web through House Information Systems.
It will be the most comprehensive source of House legislative
data found electronically from the House of Representatives.
- The U.S. Whitehouse:
in Washington, D.C. Meet Bill & Co.
- WHO:
The World Health Organization's server.
- World Bank:
The World Bank's server.
Student's projects
- Rotaract:
Service Club für Jugendliche im Alter von 18-32 Jahren.
- Stocks:
Experimental Stock Market Data Server at MIT.
- Goethe Investment:
Studentischer Investmentclub an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
u.a. Frankfurter Börsekurse (DAX), etc.
- One Europe:
ÆGEE is a European students' association that organizes congresses concerning a
big variety of topics and so-called Summer Universities, i. e. language and other
courses, thus building bridges accross Europe. It is not dependent on politcal
parties, religions etc.
Internet Commerce
Digital Money
- DigiCash:
The electronic anonymous cash project.
- FinanceNet:
Established by Vice President Gore's Office of the National Performance Review
with Operations Provided by the National Science Foundation.
Home Shopping Malls
- VirtualMall:
A collection of items including: Education; health; environment;
culture; politics; music; books; sports and recreation; hobbies
and crafts; humor; virtual reality; medical and nourishment.
by the Edwards Research Institute.
- MarketNet:
is UK's answer to CommerceNet.
MarketNet is a UK Based electronic Marketplace. Marketnet has
the following onboard and live today:
LAWNET: Online will writing service.
FLOWERNET: Online UK florist.
CHOCNET: Online confectionary.
ARTNET: Online galleries.
CRAFTNET: Online crafts.
MarketNet has an agreement with Cheviot Capital Ltd to offer
Investment Services. MarketNet also has agreed with Secure Trust Bank
to offer Banking Services through BankNet.
- Shopping 2000:
NEW YORK-- ContentWare announces the creation of the largest audio and
graphically enriched electronic mall as Internet shopping content
surpasses commercial online services offerings.
Multimedia content from JCPENNY, Spiegel, Sara Lee Direct, FTD Direct,
Artistic Greetings, Marshall Field's, San Francisco Music Box, Sunnyland
Farms, Parsons Technology, Ross-Simons, NordicTrack,
800.Flowers/800.Gifthouse, Northstyle, Venamy Orchids, Tower Records,
Early Winters, REI and Artrock Gallery are now available on a World Wide
Web server for viewing through the Mosaic browser.
- CommerceNet:
Home shopping in California, information providers, et cetera.
- Sofcom:
Home shopping in Australia, information providers, non-profits,
festivals and tourism.
Record Companys on Internet
- Amercian Recordings:
- Breakfast Records:
- Geffen Records:
Peter Gabriel, Hole, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses, etc.
- Grand Royal Music Kitchen:
- Mammonth Records:
- N-Fusion Records:
- Sin Drome Records:
- Sony Music Group:
- State 51:
- TyGlo Records:
Hair Today Gone Tomorrrow
- Virgin Records:
There are band areas, news and info about artists on Virgin, Hut and Hi
Rise labels. Special artist areas are devoted to Massive Attack, The
Verve, Whale and McAlmont.
- Warner Bros.:
Madonna, Prince, etc.
- IUMA:
the Internet Underground Music Archive by label.
Support Centers
- 3Com:
Networks that go the distance.
- Apple Computer:
Apple Computer's WEB site and customer support center.
- Ascend:
Ascend Communications, Inc. produces a broad range of digital wide area
network access products that enhance and extend corporate networks for
applications such as remote LAN access, Internet access, telecommuting,
videoconferencing, imaging and integrated voice, data and video access.
- IBM:
International Business Machine Corp.'s WEB site.
- CIO:
Cisco Information Online.
- Dataquest:
Dataquest information services online.
- Intel:
"Inside" Intel Corporation's Website.
- Microsoft:
The guys that brought you Windows & edlin.
- Morning Star Technologies:
Morning Star Technologies, the leading manufacturer of budget connectivity
products such as MST PPP and MST Express router provides information about
their products.
- NeXT:
The Website of NeXT Computer, Inc.
- Novell:
Novell's European support center for Univel products.
- O'Reilly:
WebSite Central; for WIndows NT & Windows '95.
- Parsytec:
Parsytec Computer GmbH ist der größte (und erfolgreichste) europäische
Anbieter von Parallelrechner in Industrie und Forschung. Weit über
1000 Systeme werden weltweit zur Lösung rechenintensiver Aufgaben
eingesetzt. So stehen Rechner mit einer Leistung von über 15GFlop
u.a. in Heidelberg und Paderborn, aber auch in den USA und Japan
kommen Parsytec Systeme zum Einsatz.
- Quarterdeck:
The maker's of Quemm & QMosaic online.
- SNI:
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme.
- SONY:
Sony Deutschland.
- Sietec:
Systemtechnik GmbH & Co OHG.
- Sun Microsystems:
A masterpiece in the Web.
- Telekom:
An experimental site of Deutsche Telekom.
- Deutsche Telekom AG:
The makers of DATEX-J online.
- Wolfram Research:
The makers of Mathematica onn the Web.
- Pangaea:
Business contacts world-wide.
- Reebok:
Schuhe (und die zugehörige Philosophie) im Cyberspace.
Consumer Organizations
- Procter & Gamble
Die Procter & Gamble Verbraucherberatung praesentiert ihren neuen
Service im WWW, bei dem neben der Vorstellung der umfangreichen
Produktpalette Verbraucherfragen beantwortet werden.
- HRRC:
In October 1981, within weeks of a court's declaring sales of VCRs illegal,
the Home Recording Rights Coalition began fighting to protect consumers'
rights to use home recording products. Fourteen years later, the issues are
cable TV and the "information superhighway," and HRRC has a site on the
World Wide Web. Keep up with the fight to protect consumers' rights --
visit the HRRC home page.
Job Searching
- Jobserve, Ltd. (UK): Every day, computer
contract recruitment agencies from all over the UK fax us their latest
requirements. We enter the details into a database, generate a neatly
formatted list and send it out, overnight, to anyone who wants it. We call it
JobServe and we distribute it by electronic mail.
- BAMTA (USA):
Bay Area Multimedia Technology Alliance (BAMTA) job bank is as a part of
the Web Form technology development project. BAMTA provides a Web space for
posting job openings which are multimedia and Web technology related.
- Intellimatch (USA):
If you're looking for a new job or just want to test the waters to see how
marketable you are, the IntelliMatch on-line service gives you the
opportunity. Intellimatch uses advanced client-server technology to maintain a
database of available people that employers access on-line to find individuals
that best match their needs.
Index of Commercial Sites
- Commercial Sites Index:
A comprehensive listing of companies with a presence on the World Wide Web.
- Internet Business Center:
Information specifically related to business use of the Internet.
- Virtual
Inc.: The company that has it all! A collection of commercial Web servers.
- Virtual Office, Inc.: Helps your business
use technology: we teach you how to use the Internet and other online
services, to improve your marketing, mobile computing, research, and customer
service. We work with you to develop a strong Internet presence fo r your
company, and guide your online development so that it respects the Internet
community and contributes to it.
- The
Internet Mall: Shopping on the Information Highway. A monthly list of
commercial services available via Internet.
- The WWW Yellow Pages
Art, Culture, & Fun
-
Die Kölner Oper
(Opera ain't over until the fat lady sung -George Bush)
-
VH-1 derland / [vee] [age] [wonderland]
VH-1 ist da! Am dem 4.Mai um 22:00 Uhr drückte David Bowie den Startknopf.
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Goethe Institut:
Die Deutschen Kulturexporteure ab jetzt im WWW.
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Early Motion Picture (1897-1916):
from the Libray of Congress, USA.
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Pentium Jokes:
The jokes that made Intel laugh...?
- MTV's Oddities:
Sound bites, slick graphics scanned straight from painted cels,
downloadable cartoons and promos created-for-the-site are some of the goodies
you can find there. For the next few weeks, expect lots of stuff about "The
Head," which is the first installment of "Oddities," created by NYU
film/animation grad Eric Fogel. As well, you can expect Beavis &
Butt-head, Aeon Flux and others to drop by.
A highly graphical site (if you want it to be), MTV Oddities promises to be a
hot location.
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The UNIX Hater's Handbook:
Includes a free barf bag!
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Northpole:
Santa's Home base; Santa's 2nd Home
base:; and
Santa's 3rd Home base.
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Rolling Stones:
All the stuff from one of the greates rock band ever.
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Frank Zappa:
All the stuff from one of the most creative musicians ever.
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IUMA:
The Internet Underground Music Archive.
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EXPO - WWW Exhibit Organization:
Enter to the Worlds most exciting exposition.
- Musée virtuel:
Le siècle des lumières dans la peinture des musées de France
- Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers:
une tradition d'avance, en Paris, France.
- ArtServe:
Art History at the Australian National University.
- Honolulu Community:
College Movies (MPEG).
Environmental Services
- The WWW Virtual
Library: Law: International & Environmental Law
- National
Parks: 1993 United Nations List of National Parks and Protected Areas
-
Threatned Animals: 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
- The National Climatic Data Center
(NCDC) The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is responsible for data
management activities in support of scientific and technical programs
involving remotely sensed and in situ retrospective meteorological data and
climatological information. NCDC performs all functions related to data
management (acquisition, archiving, inventorying, and quality assessments),
data synthesis (climate description, monitoring), modeling, and prediction),
and data and information dissemination and publication.
- OZONE DEPLETION AND
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: The British Columbia Atmosphere Caucus
(BCAC) provides information on a variety of topics related to ozone depletion,
including current action by the Canadian federal and provincial governments,
sunscreens and cancer, and ultraviolet radiation.
Networking Organizations & Access Providers
- CIX:
The Commercial Internet eXchange in USA.
- CompuServe:
Biggest BBS in the world.
- DeNIC:
The DeNIC is the German counterpart of the InterNIC.
- EInet:
The Galaxy is a guide to worldwide information and services and is provided as
a public service by EINet and Galaxy guest editors. The information is
organized by topic, and can be searched. You can also add your own
information to Galaxy. For more help in moving about the Galaxy, click on the
word ``Help'' in the bar at the top of this page.
- EUnet:
The mother of all EUnet sites across Europe an adjacent countries;
all in all 38, for now.
- InterNIC:
The InterNIC is a collaborative project of three organizations which
work together to offer the Internet community a full scope of network
information services.
- MERIT:
The NSFNet coordinators.
- Pipeline:
Internet for the rest of us.
- RIPE:
Network Coordination Centre is the organization to coordinate IP
networking in Europe.
- UUnet:
UUnet technologies; owners of AlterNet, and creators of the Microsoft
Network (MSN).
- The Worl-Wide Web Consortium: promotes
the Web by producing specifications and reference software. W3C is funded by
industrial members but its products are freely available to all. The
Consortium is run by MIT with INRIA acting as European host, in
collaboration with CERN where the web
originated.
- The Web Society:
The Web Society, an international non-profit organisation, has been
founded according to Austrian law and initially has offices in Graz,
Austria and Charlottesville, USA.
The current Society executive council consists of four persons representing
major non-profit organisations involved in activieties relating to the "Web"
(which we define in the broad sense of information systems on the Internet):
CERN and INRIA for WWW, Univ.of Minnesota for Gopher, and Graz University
of Technology for Hyper-G.
Web Indexes & Archives
Internet Queries (how to find something...)
- WAIS:
Search the Wide Area Information Service's directory of servers.
- WWW Yellow Pages:
Die gelben Seiten im World-Wide Web.
- WWW Search Engines:
The World-Wide Web's search engines at a glance.
- YAHOO:
The best of the non-commercial World-Wide Web's search engines.