Selected Sites

Scarecrow's ASCII Art Archive

features graphics formed from the text characters of a keyboard, perfect for sprucing up your e-mail messages.

Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR)

participates in standards and policy associations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Coalition for Networked Information, with the goal of increasing consensus among developers and exploring appropriate uses of networked information. CNIDR also actively promotes the use of networked information discovery and retrieval tools at many national and international conferences to inform and educate implementors and end users.

UIUC Computing Wisdom Workshop

or What is this information superhighway thing anyway? is an introductory overview of resources available on the Internet.

Dear Emily PostNews

Emily, foremost authority on proper net behaviour, gives her advice on how to act on the net.

Email 101

is designed to give you that same sense of freedom and competence with the Internet that you have with an automatic teller machine or the telephone.

Four11 Online User Directory

is a white pages directory for Internet users.

Global Network News

brings you news from and about the Internet, featuring stories about the Internet and technology in the information age.

HyperNews

is a cross between the hypermedia of WWW and Usenet News. The basic idea is to allow readers to respond to any articles or responses they read in the HyperNews web. The articles support moderated organization of information, while the responses support unmoderated discussion about the information.

Internaut

is an online magazine for users of the Internet, provided by Internaut Books.

InterNIC

is a collaborative project of three organizations which work together to offer the Internet community a full scope of network information services. These services include providing information about accessing and using the Internet, assistance in locating resources on the network, and registering network components for Internet connectivity. See also

Internet Conference Calendar

lists upcoming conferences, symposia, courses and workshops related to the Internet or to internetworking technologies.

Internet Goodies

a list of software (freeware and shareware), documentations and electronic texts.

Internet Hunt

is a set of 10 questions that can be answered using only the resources of the Net (Bitnet, Internet, Usenet, etc.)

Internet Index

inspired by "Harper's Index", compiled by Win Treese offers statistics on the use of the Internet

Internet Society

is the non-governmental International Organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications.

Internet Tools Summary

of Internet tools for network information retrieval (NIR) and computer-mediated communication (CMC) by John December (decemj@rpi.edu)

Internet Town Hall

offers a number of services, including the Internet University, excerpts of talks and tutorials from throughout the Internet.

Internet Training Resources

is a collection of resources that are useful to Internet trainers, as well as just about anyone elsewho is on the Net.

The Joys and Sorrows of Listservs

an article from the Virtual Mirror

Listserv HomePage

offers an upda-to-dateindex to listservs by topic or alphabetically

Listserv Users Guide

Everything you wanted to know, compiled and produced by the EARN Association

Inter-Links's Searchable Index

of e-mail discussion groups from a database maintained by Dartmouth College of almost 6,000 mailing lists. The database is updated weekly. It may also be searched by a service from midnet

Diane Kovacs Electronic Conference List is organized by subject and is also searchable.

MBONE

stands for the Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP. It facilitates distributed applications to achieve time-critical "real-time" communication over wide area IP networks through a lightweight, highly threaded model of communication. See also the MBONE FAQ

MUD Info

is a list of links to many useful sources of MUD information. There is a particular emphasis on MUSHes, although there is plenty of general information as well.

Amberyl's Almost-Complete List of MUSHes

list of MUSHes, together with addresses, commentary, links to home pages, and, if available, MudWHO queries

WaxWeb

is the hypermedia version of David Blair's feature-length independent film, "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00, 1991). It combines one of the largest hypermedia narrative databases on the Internet with an authoring interface which allows users to collaboratively add to the story.

Matrix Information & Directory Services

offers information, graphs, and maps on network usage.

News Groups

For starters, see the hypertext version of USENET Frequently Asked Questions or consult the Bible of Usenet.

Online Service Industry Weekly Updates Page

is a weekly summary of events in the consumer online services industry including links to WWW servers available for Compuserve, Delphi, Prodigy, etc.

Providers of Commercial Internet Access (POCIA)

is a hyper-text listing of companies and organizations providing Internet access.

Quality and Standards of Internet Information

collects in a single and easily accessible site all currently available principles, practical suggestions, and pointers to materials relevant to creating high quality Internet information resources

The Unofficial Internet Book List

The most extensive bibliography of books about the Internet

Wandex

Wandex is a WWW index generated by the WWW Wanderer and the net.Index prototype (an autonomous content analysis-based search engine). To date, Wandex has indexed over 29,000 web documents from more than 12,000 sites and more than 6,000 homepages.