http://www.knosso.com/Knosshotlist.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Welcome to Knossopolis' Annotated Hotlist. We're trying to provide you with a
list of sites that is both comprehensive and understandable. So, what this page
ISN'T is a long list of blue links.
If you have something you think is worthy of this page, or if you find a broken
link or other problem, send me mail at jmax@wimsey.com
Important Site of the Month...
The EFF and ACLU's challenge to the US Telecom Bill.
Here's the breakdown of this page. You can click on these links to zoom down the page to the
section you want, or you can just scroll away...
Indexes, Catalogues, and Starting Points
- Still the best search engine I've found: Lycos, the Catalogue of the Internet.
Currently indexing over 10 million URLs.
- A Canadian search engine, OpenText offers unparalleled search control.
- This has been around forever, and it keeps getting better: Yahoo! An amazingly useful
hierarchical catalogue. Searchable too.
- Another comprehensive subject listing is TradeWave's
Galaxy searchable catalogue.
- There is no central index for the Web, but one of the closest things would probably be the W3C's
WWW Virtual Library.
- The U.S. Library of Congress now has all its services available from
a central WWW page.
- UC Irvine's PEG: Peripatetic, Eclectic GOPHER.
WWW Tools and Information
- What the heck is the WWW, anyway? Take a look at the
The World Wide Web Consortium homepage.
- John December's incredibly comprehensive set of links to everything you ever wanted to know about
the Internet, the software to use it, and the resources available on it:
Internet Web Text
- The U. of Illinois' set of tutorials and developers' documentation on HTTPd, CGI, HTML, and what-have-you
is on the NCSA Hoohoo server.
- Looking for an HTML guide? The original, and still one of the best ones out there, is
A Beginner's Guide to HTML, from the NCSA.
- By far the best WWW style guide I've seen is the WWW Style Manual
from the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media.
- RealAudio:
Medium quality continuous-stream audio, over a 14400 modem! The net eats radio. Best new technology since HTTP.
Macintosh Resources
- The ULTIMATE Macintosh, a site with pointers to every conceivable Mac resource.
- Go right to the source: Apple Computer is building an extensive Internet service.
Two of their more interesting sites are the
Mac OS & Apple System Software Technologies server, and the
Apple-Internet Mailing Lists Home Page.
- Bare Bones Software
finally has a home page! The makers of
BBEdit,
arguably the best text editor in the universe, are now online, and you
can check out all their excellent offerings, including the best value
in computing, freeware BBEdit Lite. Couple this with Lindsay Davies'
excellent
HTML Tools
plug-ins and you've got an amazing package.
- Browse the popular Info-Mac software archives via the Web with the new
INFO-MAC HyperArchive. You can go through the files either
categorically or chronologically, and read the file abstracts as you go.
- Finally, this really useful site allows you to do keyword searches on the popular
UMich Mac Archive FTP site. The results of you search
offer a couple of mirror sites to download from, too.
Magazines and Journals
- Knossopolis' own NWHQ is a magazine of art and literature featuring works
from all corners of the Net. Now in its THIRD edition.
- basilisk: a quarterly journal of film, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, and perception.
- Vancouver magazine brings us Vancouver Village, a content-rich general interest magazine.
- A really cleanly produced literary journal, Kudzu blends a simple and elegant visual design with
a great variety of excellent writings.
- One of the best journals on the WWW is John December's
Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine, which
covers news and trends over the whole range of CMC issues, and especially the Internet.
- A great resource for writings on online publishing issues is the
Journal of Electronic Publishing. Topics covered include electronic archiving, intellectual property, economics, technical constraints, and more.
- Bringing the culinary world to cyberspace: eGG -- a high-quality food and cooking magazine.
- The Journal of Postmodern Culture features essays on all aspects
of the postmodern, often offering an insightful look at net.culture.
Happy Surfing
Spiritual
- I have found the ultimate resource collection for pagan and occult materials, and it is
Anders' Magick Page: pointers to collections of texts, file archives,
newsgroups, and other related WWW pages.
- For the Gaelic at heart, The Dalriada gopher server is a wonderful collection of
Celtic folklore and heritage.
- Though it might look like a commercial site, the
Godiva Online Home Page is also a great source of
recipes, tidbits, and minutae about the Food of the Gods.
- You may not think of this as spiritual, but that's because you haven't browsed through it yet: The
Principia Cybernetica Web moves toward the "computer-supported collaborative
development of evolutionary-systemic philosophy."
- A really excellent website: the Anglicans Online homepage.
- The King James Bible, searchable and fully anchored, down to the subchapter level.
Issues and Ideas
- There's no debating it anymore...global warming is a reality. Take a look at the
Climate Crisis Homepage:
Greenpeace's take on the global warming/ozone depletion issue. Test your knowledge in the interactive
climate change quiz.
- Students for Environmental and Ecological Development.
SEEDWeb for short. Dig deep...there's a lot of good stuff on these pages.
- John Perry Barlow's essential essay The Economy of Ideas.
- EFF and Cypherpunks co-founder John Gilmore's home page has a ton of
Net-politics links.
- The Cyphernomicon: best FAQ you'll ever read.
- Hal Finney on Cryptography
- Where all the cool net.culture documents live, of course, at the WELLGopher.
- From the people who registered "women.com" comes Women's Wire, which looks like a magazine, but never
really announces itself as such. On the web, who can tell? Great content anyway.
- An idea with origins in this corner of the world has found its
way online. The LETSystems Homepage
offers a more community-minded alternative to the whole virtual money issue..
- The Blacksburg Electronic Village Blacksburg and Virginia Tech are
stretching the "community network" idea to its limit.
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