Exploring the Internet

Whether you are interested in art, cookery, ancient manuscripts or dinosaurs, accessing library catalogues, weather forecasts, software archives or phone books you will be able to find something for you on the Internet.

This section has been set up to give you a starting point for exploration but once you set off you will be able to follow any paths which interest you. If you do come across something which you want to return to, don't forget to add it to your bookmark list so that you can find it again easily!

Please note that the links in this section are not maintained by the University of York, so we may not be able to help if something fails.

• Finding out about the Internet
• World Wide Web Servers
• Resources available on the Internet
• Internet Tools and Search Mechanisms
• Miscellaneous Resources

Finding out about the Internet

• Internet for Everyone - a tutorial for you to work through at your own pace from Newcastle
• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet - an introduction to many aspects of the Internet from EFF
• Welcome to the Global Village - a flavour of what is out there from the BBC

World Wide Web Servers

• Web servers in the UK
• The UK and Ireland - an active map
• Universities on the Web - a world-wide list
• Web servers throughout the World - listed alphabetically by continent country and state
• The Virtual Tourist - a world map with details of what is on the Web in each country
• The Virtual Tourist II - a world map with details about each country and what you can do if you go there

Resources available on the Internet

• York Subject Tree - maintained by the University of York Libraries
• Internet Training Resources - compiled by Neil Enns
• Information Sources - compiled by John December
• Internet Services - compiled by Scott Yanoff
• The Awesome List - compiled by John Makulowich
• The Whole Internet Catalog - from the book by Ed Krol
• Britannica Online - an information service of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
• Dictionaries and other Reference Works - from Carnegie Mellon
• BUBL - UK-based information service
• Mailbase - UK-based mailing lists
• Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conference - international mailing lists
• TileNet - alphabetical listings of mailing lists by subject or name or country
• Usenet News service
• Usenet News FAQs

Internet Tools and Search Mechanisms

• Alta Vista - a search facility from Digital
• WebCrawler Index - a Web search facility from Washington
• World Wide Web Worm - a Web database by Oliver McBryan
• Harvest a searchable collection of WWW Home Pages
• Lycos - a searchable database of Internet resources
• Liszt - keyword searching to locate mailing lists
• ALIWEB (Archie-like Indexing for the Web) - keyword searching on the Web from Nexor
• The Internet Search Engines - an annotated list from the BBC
• EINet Galaxy - a searchable index of information and services
• The Internet Yellow Pages - a searchable directory from the BBC
• Electronic Yellow Pages - The BT version, useful as a subject search engine.
• Netfind - locates Email addresses
• Archie Plex - locates files at anonymous ftp sites
• HENSA - the UK's higher education software archive

Miscellaneous Resources

• The Guardian - The Guardian newspaper online (keyword searching)
• The Times Higher Education Supplement
• EXPO - a selection of exhibitions available on the Web
• Exploratorium - an interactive museum
• The WebMuseum
• Time Out Net - city guides plus cultural and sporting events for London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris and many more
• The Internet Movie Database Browser
• Weather World
• Recipes
• The UK Government's Web Server