#TITLE Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication #AUTHOR December Communications, Inc. (john@december.com) #DATE 27 Sep 1997 #COPYRIGHT 1992-1997 December Communications, Inc. You may use this for any educational, personal, or non-profit purpose. For-profit distribution requires permission. #DISCLAIMER Provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # PURPOSE: to list information describing the Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies, applications, culture, discussion forums, and bibliographies. Areas of interest include the technical, rhetorical, social, cognitive, and psychological aspects of networked communication and information. # AUDIENCE: those getting started in understanding the Internet and CMC; for those experienced, it collects sources of information. # ASSUMPTION: you have access to and know how to use the World Wide Web, finger, ftp, gopher, telnet, email, or Usenet newsgroups. # NOTES: # 1. Respect access privileges. (See Net Etiquette Guide, below.) # 2. This information changes quite a bit; additions/comments welcome. # 3. Use keyword searching tools to find a file if it is not at the site given here. # 4. The easiest way to use this information is the HTML version through a Web browser: open the URL http://www.december.com/cmc/info/ # 5. See other formats useful for other purposes below, under "ABOUT this information / Formats." #------------------------------------------------------------------------- #UPDATES #EMAIL "John December: contact about updates, questions, comments, corrections" %ADR john@december.com %CHECKED 11-Jul-94 #------------------------------------------------------------------------ #SECTION ABOUT this information #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # This is a directory of information sources about online communication. It has been known worldwide as The December List since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about the Internet and computer-mediated communication. A popular resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the Internet, it is updated continuously. You can use this list for your reference. # This section lists information files available about this list. #SUB-SECTION Notes # This list is a comprehensive collection of information sources about the Internet and computer-mediated communication. # You can follow the links below to find out more about it and how to use it. #HTTP "README: About the Computer-Mediated Communication information sources list, purpose, audience" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/about-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Add: gives you a form to search to add items this list" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/add-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Challenges/Web Info: Challenges for Web Information Providers, by John December; an article describing the development of the Internet-cmc information and issues for Web information providers" %HOST sunsite.unc.edu %FILE cmc/mag/1994/oct/webip.html %CHECKED 01-Oct-94 #HTTP "Excellent: this is a list of all the excellent entries from the list" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/excellent.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Fair use: gives you guidelines on how I ask you to use this information" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/fairuse-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "History: tells about the history and development of this list" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/history-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Index: for faster navigation, choose and bookmark this link for quick entry points to the most popular parts of this list" %HOST www.december.com %DIR cmc/info/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "New: this is a list of all the new entries" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/new.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Printing: describes how to print a version of this list for your own use" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/print-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Publication Info: gives you a quick summary of the publication information about this list; pass this information along to someone who may be interested in what this list offers" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/info.txt %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Search: gives you a form to search for items this list" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/search-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Symbols: describes symbols that you will find in the hypertext version of this list" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/symbols-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Updated: this is a list of all the updated entries" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/updated.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Using: describes purpose, notes, how to use the segmented hypertext format of this information" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/use-icmc.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SECTION Formats # These are the other formats for this information. #HTTP "Database: the database from which I generate this information, warning--this is a LARGE file" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/internet-cmc.dat #HTTP "HTML 1 BIG (!) page: HTML version of this information on one big page" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/internet-cmc.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "HTML segmented: HTML version of this information in a web of pages divided by section, sub-section, and sub-sub-section" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/index.html #------------------------------------------------------------------------ #SECTION INTERNET #======================================================================== # This section lists information about the Internet and how to use it. You'll find subsections which focus on using the Internet, such as navigating and searching, and also important reference collections and training information for advanced and new users. #SUB-SECTION Introduction #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # If you are a new user of the Internet, or are providing instruction for new users, these resources will help show users the potential of the Internet and to provide them with introductory information. #SUB-SUB-SECTION Motivation #FTP "Gold in Networks!:a description of gold nuggets in the network, by J. Martin" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/fyi/fyi10.txt %CHECKED 02-Oct-93 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Overviews #HTTP "GlobalCenter Tour: A tour of the Internet from Global Village Communications" %HOST www.globalvillage.com %FILE gcweb/tour.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #FTP "Hitchikers Guide: describes the Internet (circa September 1989), by Ed Krol" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/rfc/rfc1118.txt %CHECKED 11-Oct-93 #FTP "What is the Internet?: by Krol and Hoffman" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/fyi/fyi20.txt %CHECKED 11-Oct-93 #HTTP "Xerox Video: An Overview of the Internet and World-Wide Web, by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center" %HOST pubweb.parc.xerox.com %FILE hypertext/wwwvideo/wwwvideo.html %CHECKED 02-Aug-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Facts #HTTP "Internet Index: The Internet Index, a list of interesting facts about the Internet [Inspired by `Harper's Index'], by Win Treese " %HOST www.openmarket.com %FILE intindex/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "New User's Questions: answers questions commonly asked by new users, by Malkin and Marine" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/fyi/fyi4.txt %CHECKED 11-Oct-93 #SUB-SUB-SECTION History #HTTP "Archive.org: an organization to archive the Internet's contents such as the World Wide Web and Usenet to provide historians, researchers, scholars, and others access to this vast collection of data, and ensuring the long-term storage of the information." %HOST www.archive.org %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Internet birthday: happy 25th, Internet" %HOST www.amdahl.com %FILE internet/events/inet25.html %CHECKED 1-Sep-94 #HTTP "Internet History/ISOC: Internet Society's collection of Internet history" %HOST www.isoc.org %DIR internet-history %CHECKED 1-Sep-1997 #HTTP "Internet Timeline: events in the history of the Internet by Robert H'obbes' Zakon" %HOST info.isoc.org %FILE guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Netizen Anthology: The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net--an anthology, Ronda Hauben, Michael Hauben" %HOST www.columbia.edu %FILE ~hauben/project_book.html %CHECKED 02-Feb-95 #SUB-SECTION Collections #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # The Internet has grown from the collaborative efforts of people over several decades; the documents for sharing information and passing along and discussing standards are located within Network Information Centers (NICs). NICs are the repositories for several kinds of documents that play a role in describing what the Internet is and how it works. #SUB-SUB-SECTION NICs = Network Information Centers #HTTP "Alldomains.com: domain name information and registration, includes links to regional and country Network Information Centers" %HOST www.alldomains.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 %STAR #HTTP "InterNIC: The InterNIC offers two distinct services run by separate organizations. These are, AT and T provides Directory and Database Services; Network Solutions, Inc. provides Registration Services" %HOST www.internic.net %CHECKED 06-May-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Series # These are documents that play an important role in Internet communication--they establish, propose, or discuss technical features or important issues. Frequently, they document important technological developments; other series provide good information for users to find out about the Internet and its resources. #FTP "BCP: Best Current Practices, a sub-series of RFCs about topics which relate to the Internet" %HOST nic.merit.edu %DIR documents/bcp/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "IESG: the meeting minutes of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)." %HOST nic.merit.edu %DIR documents/iesg/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "FYI: For Your Information-sub-series of RFCs about topics which relate to the Internet; good sources of information for beginner or training information" %HOST nic.merit.edu %DIR documents/fyi/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Internet Docs: Internet Documentation (RFC's, FYI's, etc.) from InterNIC" %HOST ds.internic.net %FILE ds/dspg0intdoc.html %CHECKED 06-May-94 #FTP "Internet Drafts: draft documents to be submitted ultimately to the Internet Activities Board to be as RFCs" %HOST nic.merit.edu %DIR documents/internet-drafts/ %CHECKED 05-Mar-94 #HTTP "Internet Drafts Index: a list of Internet drafts with a short synopsis of each; provided by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)" %HOST www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us %FILE 1id-abstracts.html %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #FTP "RFC: Request for Comments about topics which relate to the Internet" %HOST nic.merit.edu %DIR documents/rfc/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "RFC repositories: repositories where RFCs are located" %HOST isi.edu %FILE in-notes/rfc-retrieval.txt #HTTP "RFC Index: listing of Internet Request For Comments (RFC) files with a searchable index" %HOST ds.internic.net %FILE ds/dspg1intdoc.html #EMAIL "RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues." %ADR rfc-info@isi.edu %BODY help: ways_to_get_rfcs #FTP "STD: Internet Standards, sub-series of notes within the RFC series which document Internet standards" %HOST nic.merit.edu %DIR documents/std/ #SUB-SECTION Training #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # If you are working in Internet training, there's a wide variety of resources out there that you can tap into for lesson plans and resources. # #SUB-SUB-SECTION Collections #HTTP "CBL: Computer-Based Learning Unit, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom" %HOST cbl.leeds.ac.uk %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 #HTTP "IETF/TERENA: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Training Materials Catalogue; a reviewed collection of materials for network training" %HOST www.trainmat.ietf.org %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "IT Connections: Instructional Technology Connections from the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver; a resource index designed for Students and practitioners of Instructional Technology. The resource links into the major domains of Educational Technology, providing an unusual focus on theory, philosophy and research." %HOST www.cudenver.edu %FILE ~mryder/itcon.html %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "ITTI: Information Technology Training Initiative, a United Kingdom-wide initiative to provide training materials about or using Information Technology" %HOST info.mcc.ac.uk %FILE CGU/ITTI/ITTI.html %CHECKED 30-Mar-94 #HTTP "Media Literacy: Online project of Center for Advanced Technology in Education, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, to make available to teachers, students, parents, and producers, a comprehensive collection of resources related to the influence of media in the lives of children, youth, and adults." %HOST interact.uoregon.edu %FILE MediaLit/HomePage %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Netskills: a United Kingdom-wide effort to collect electronic training and educational information" %HOST www.netskills.ac.uk %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "NOCALL: Northern California Association of Law Libraries (NOCALL) and the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) to encourage use of the Internet and provide training assistance to our members" %HOST lawlib.wuacc.edu %FILE nocall/home.html %CHECKED 07-Dec-95 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Resources #HTTP "T3: Training the Internet Trainer-Toward a Systematic Approach, by John Makulowich, The Writers Alliance, Inc., USA, Prepared for delivery at INET'96 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society 28 June 1996" %HOST www.cais.com %FILE makulow/t3.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Exploring #HTTP "Sherlock: The Internet Consulting Detective; mysteries of information gathering on the Internet solved" %HOST www.intermediacy.com %DIR sherlock/ %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Courses #HTTP "BKC2SKOL: A New Class on the Net For Librarians with little or no Net Experience" %HOST web.csd.sc.edu %FILE bck2skol/fall/fall.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "CMC Courses: a directory of courses in CMC" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/study/courses.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "CMC teaching social issues: Challenges, Ideas, and Resources, by Tom Jewett and Rob Kling" %HOST www.engr.csulb.edu %FILE ~jewett/teach/teach.html %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Compass in Cyberspace: Internet Training from John S. Makulowich" %HOST www.clark.net %FILE pub/journalism/brochure.html %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #HTTP "Courses/info tech: courses related to social implications of information technology, list by Meng Weng Wong" %HOST www.seas.upenn.edu %FILE ~mengwong/netsurf/otherclasses.html %CHECKED 02-Dec-94 #HTTP "Internet Resource: Internet Resource Discovery, Organization, and Design, by Lou Rosenfeld and Dr. Joe Janes, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan" %HOST http2.sils.umich.edu %FILE ~lou/60694.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "Intro/Internet: one of several prototype classes and texts sponsored through the Globewide Network Academy" %HOST uu-gna.mit.edu %PORT 8001 %FILE uu-gna/text/internet/index.html %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 #HTTP "Netsurf course: by Meng Weng Wong, covers social implications of information technologies" %HOST www.seas.upenn.edu %DIR ~mengwong/netsurf/ %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "Sociology of Cyberspace: the contemporary revolution in human interaction via computers. Using postmodern and media theories, we will discuss the social construction of the virtual world and new virtual experience of cyberspace." %HOST www.interlabs.bradley.edu %DIR cyber_soc/spring_1996/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Tutorials for specific applications #EMAIL "Competencies: Competencies for Electronic Information Services, by John Corbin" %ADR listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu %BODY GET CORBIN PRV4N6 %CHECKED 16-Jan-94 #EMAIL "Discussion help: The art of getting help--guidelines for seeking help in discussion groups" %ADR rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu %SUBJECT archive send courtesy %CHECKED 2-Mar-94 #HTTP "NIR/CMC Tools/December: a list summarizing Internet tools and computer-mediated communication forums; includes pointers to guides or information about each tool, by John December" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/ %CHECKED 14-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Unix Help: Nova University's Unixhelp for users" %HOST www.nova.edu %FILE Inter-Links/UNIXhelp/TOP_.html %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #SUB-SECTION Navigating #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # If you are trying to find things online or to browse online information spaces, you'll find resources to help you locate, retrieve, and encounter information. # #SUB-SUB-SECTION Tools #HTTP "Browser watch: information on Internet Browsers (Web client software); this site includes a directory of current browsers, news and rumors about browsers and plugins and statistics and information on browser use" %HOST www.browserwatch.com %CHECKED 16-Feb-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Internet Tools/EARN HTML: European Academic Research Network Association Guide to Network Resources Tools in HTML" %HOST www.earn.net %FILE gnrt/notice.html %CHECKED 19-Sep-94 #HTTP "Internet Tools/December HTML: HTML (segmented) version of a list summarizing Internet tools and computer-mediated communication forums, by John December" %HOST www.december.com %DIR net/tools/ %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Guides #HTTP "De Presno Guide: The Online World by Odd de Presno" %HOST login.eunet.no %FILE ~presno/index.html %CHECKED 01-Oct-94 #HTTP "EFF Guide: EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)" %HOST www.eff.org %FILE papers/eegtti/eegttitop.html %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #FTP "Email 101: describes how to use email as well as other Internet features, by John Goodwin" %HOST uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu %FILE pub/etext/gutenberg/etext93/email025.txt %CHECKED 08-Dec-95 #EMAIL "Email/access: Accessing The Internet By E-Mail, by `Doctor Bob' Rankin" %ADR mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu %BODY send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "Entering/WWW: Kevin Hughes's guide to the web" %HOST www.eit.com %DIR web/www.guide/ %CHECKED 25-Jun-94 #HTTP "Imaginary Landscape: A Guide to Getting Started on the Internet; this is a well organized walk-through of the basics of network communication and information use; the amount of information is not overwhelming, but more links are provided so that users can get more information" %HOST www.imagescape.com %DIR helpweb %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Internet Web Text: an index to the Internet's resources; links to orientation, guides, reference materials, browsing and exploring tools, subject and word-oriented searching tools, and information about connecting with people, by John December" %HOST www.december.com %DIR web/text/ %CHECKED 11-Feb-94 #HTTP "Learn the Net: a comprehensive and easy to use Internet resource guide" %HOST www.learnthenet.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "Zen/Art of Internet: Zen and the Art of the Internet (1st edition, January 1992), by Brendan Kehoe; the first book about the Internet" %HOST ftp.csn.org %DIR pub/net/zen/ #HTTP "Zen: Zen and the Art of the Internet (1st edition), by Brendan Kehoe, in HTML" %HOST sundance.cso.uiuc.edu %FILE Publications/Other/Zen/zen-1.0_toc.html %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Collections #HTTP "Gopher Jewels: Internet Cyberspace related gophers" %HOST galaxy.einet.net %FILE GJ/internet.html %CHECKED 15-Dec-94 #HTTP "Internet-Yahoo: pointers to the subject classification Computers-Internet" %HOST www.yahoo.com %DIR Computers/Internet/ %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "Naval Research Lab: NRL Network Research Navigator, strong on technical aspects of networking" %HOST netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Specialized guides or collections of general interest #HOST "Dern's Info: Daniel Dern's Internet Info, News and Views" %HOST www.dern.com %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "Savetz Stuff: Kevin Savetz's Page o' Stuff, Internet-related resources and lists by Kevin Savetz" %HOST www.northcoast.com %FILE savetz/savetz.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Navigators #TELNET "Hytelnet: assists users in reaching Internet libraries, Free-nets, CWISs, BBSs, and other information sites by telnet" %HOST access.usask.ca %LOGIN hytelnet %CHECKED 2-Nov-93 #HTTP "Hytelnet web" %HOST library.usask.ca %DIR hytelnet/ %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Inter-Links: Internet resources, information, links, from Nova Southeastern University, in Ft. Lauderdale Florida" %HOST www.nova.edu %FILE Inter-Links/start.html %CHECKED 23-Aug-95 #HTTP "Netlink: connects you with a wide variety of services, from Washington and Lee University" %HOST netlink.wlu.edu %PORT 1020 %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 #SUB-SECTION Searching #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # This section gives you resources to help you find specific information online. #SUB-SUB-SECTION New or Noteworthy # Sites which provide lists of new information sites on the Internet play an important role in getting the word out about resources. # Other sites pass judgements on other sites--originating from "cool sites," these sites recognize other sites for a variety of reasons, not all of which make sense. # -- Collections #HTTP "Cool Central: the site that rates the sites that rate the sites; I rate this site highly" %HOST www.coolcentral.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 # -- Notable individual sites with "what's new" information. #HTTP "Net Happenings archive: archive of a moderated mailing list that announces conferences, publications, newsletters, network tools updates, and network resources; this page includes a submittal form" %HOST www.mid.net %DIR NET/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Netsurfer Digest: a e-zine covering what is happing in Internet technology and Web sites" %HOST www.netsurf.com %DIR nsd/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Scout Report: a weekly publication of Net Scout Services to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet" %HOST rs.internic.net %DIR scout/report/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "What's New/Too: A listing of new resources on the Web" %HOST newtoo.manifest.com %FILE WhatsNewToo/search.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Yahoo New: What's New on Yahoo Hierarchical Hotlist" %HOST www.yahoo.com %DIR new/ %CHECKED 13-May-95 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Resource Lists # The practice of making lists is an old one on the Internet. This section provides you with a selection of these kinds of lists; you'll find each one provides a different way to look at the Internet and what it offers; these are not strict categorizations of all the possible subjects on the Internet (see the Subject section for that) but are eclectic selections of what is significant for a variety of audiences or to the list's editor. #HTTP "XXX-MOVED-FIX Awesome List: a list of useful resources, by John Makulowich" %HOST www.awesomelist.com %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "CMC resources: resources related to the study of Computer-Mediated Communication, from the CMC Studies Center" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/study/center.html %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "Hotsheet: a no-frills quick-access page to a variety of resources" %HOST www.tstimpreso.com %DIR hotsheet/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Hot100: a list of the 100 most popular web sites, as measured by a methodology that considers hits aggregated from a variety of sources including surveys, logs and traffic samples" %HOST www.100hot.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Top Tens: from Internet Training and Consulting Services, resource lists which are picks of the Net and Web in Top-level resources, art, commerce, fun, Internet training, K-12 education, library, Internet books and journals" %HOST www.itcs.com %DIR topten/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Yanoff List: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject" %HOST www.spectracom.com %DIR islist/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Subjects # Searching by subject is one of the main ways that you might try to locate information on the Internet. Subject libraries are among the oldest kinds of repositories for information on the Internet. Not all follow a strict scheme for breaking down subjects; most also provide some sort of search facility for their own database. # ------ Lists of Subject Trees #HTTP "December Top 5 Subjects: the top five Web subject resources available, from December Communications" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/subject.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Yahoo WWW Directories: This is Yahoo's subcategory on WWW directories; includes links to subject-oriented directories on the Web " %HOST www.yahoo.com %DIR Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Directories/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 # ------ Subject Trees #HTTP "A2Z: descriptions of most popularly linked sites in the Lycos database arranged by subjects" %HOST a2z.lycos.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Argus Clearinghouse: The site formerly known as The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides at the School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan; new site now the Argus Clearinghouse, offering a large selection of guides to Internet resources in a variety of categories" %HOST www.clearinghouse.net %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Cyberstacks: a collection of Web and Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme, organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description; resources incorporated are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services, all listed resources are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature" %HOST www.public.iastate.edu %DIR ~CYBERSTACKS/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Galaxy: a service of EINet, a collection of information, searchable via index or by topic trees" %HOST www.einet.net %FILE galaxy.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Gopher Jewels: a collection of subject-oriented gophers" %HOST galaxy.einet.net %FILE GJ/index.html %CHECKED 22-Jan-94 #HTTP "INFOMINE: a tree of annotated and indexed Internet resources on biology, agriculture, medicine, government, maps, physical sicnes, engineering, computing, math, social sicne, humanities, visual and performing arts, instructional resources, and Internet enabling tools, from the University Library, University of California, Riverside" %HOST lib-www.ucr.edu %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "InterNIC Dir of Dirs: InterNIC's Directory of Directories, subject-oriented listing of registered Internet resources and services" %HOST ds.internic.net %FILE ds/dsdirofdirs.html %CHECKED 15-Dec-94 #HTTP "IWT Narrative: Internet Web Text's narrative about subject-oriented searching" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/text/nar-subject.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Magellan McKinley Directory: includes star ratings for resources" %HOST www.mckinley.com %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "Point Communications: a guide to Web resources with ratings" %HOST www.pointcom.com %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Starting Point: a subject-breakdown of the Net" %HOST www.stpt.com %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "Study Carrels: Subject and Discipline-Specific Internet Resources, from North Carolina State University Library" %HOST dewey.lib.ncsu.edu %FILE disciplines/index.html %CHECKED 31-Mar-95 #HTTP "Top of the Web: a selected list of the five best resource sites in a variety of subject categories, including science, humanities, news, business, lookup tools, marketing, money, computers, software, art, humanities, and others" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 %STAR #FTP "USENET Periodic Postings: list of Usenet periodic postings" %HOST rtfm.mit.edu %DIR pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/ %CHECKED 21-Oct-93 #FTP "USENET repository: collection of FAQ's and files from Usenet newsgroups" %HOST rtfm.mit.edu %DIR pub/usenet/ %CHECKED 16-Oct-93 #HTTP "USENET news.answers: a hypertext presentation of the answer lists posted in the news.answers newsgroup" %HOST www.cis.ohio-state.edu %DIR hypertext/faq/usenet/ %CHECKED 30-Jul-95 #HTTP "Xplore: the motto is less is more; this is a selected subject tree of twenty categories; makes a nice exploration of an eclectic mix of some of the more interesting sites on the web" %HOST www.xplore.com %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Yahoo: Yet Another Hierarchically Odiferous Oracle, an extendible collection of subjects" %HOST www.yahoo.com %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Yanoff: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject" %HOST www.uwm.edu %FILE Mirror/inet.services.html %CHECKED 12-Jul-94 #HTTP "WebCrawler Select: selected sites in a range of subject areas" %HOST www.webcrawler.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "WWW VL: World Wide Web Virtual Library, a large hypertext collection of information organized by subject" %HOST www.w3.org %DIR vl/ %STAR %CHECKED 05-Jun-1996 #HTTP "WWW VL/LOC: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library viewed as US Library of Congress Classification" %HOST www.w3.org %FILE vl/LibraryOfCongress.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-95 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Keyword # Keyword searching is a very important strategy for finding a particular piece of information online. These resources provide a variety of ways to search the information spaces of the Internet and the Web. # ------ Collections of Lists #HTTP "All-in-one: a search page which combines forms-based search tools from a wide variety of subjects, classified by category" %HOST %FILE %CHECKED 26-Jan-95 %STAR #HTTP "December Top 5 Keywords: the top five Web keyword searching resources available, from December Communications" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/keyword.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 %STAR # ------ Keyword Searching Resources #HTTP "Accufind: searches infobases, news, books, and the Internet" %HOST nln.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "AIRSII: Arachnae Information Retreival System II; " %HOST www.arachnae.com %FILE UofT.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "ALIWEB: Archie-Like Indexing for the Web, by Martijn Koster" %HOST web.nexor.co.uk %FILE aliweb/doc/aliweb.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Alta Vista: Search the Web or Usenet for keywords. Includes advanced query form." %HOST www.altavista.digital.com %STAR %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Apollo: search for services, retailers and classifieds" %HOST apollo.co.uk %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Archieplex: Archie via Web--access archie servers (search ftp sites) via the web" %HOST web.nexor.co.uk %FILE archie.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Botspot: History of the Net always included Bots and they have been successfully utilized with human computer interaction starting with Eliza in 1966" %HOST www.botspot.com %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "CUSI: configurable unified search interface; a forms-based interface into many indices, engines, and Web Spider databases (forerunner is SUSI), by Martijn Koster" %HOST web.nexor.co.uk %FILE public/cusi/doc/list.html %CHECKED 31-Mar-95 #HTTP "Cyber411: an integrated 'parallel' search engine" %HOST www.cyber411.com %DIR search/ %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "Dejanews: search Usenet news articles" %HOST www.dejanews.com %FILE forms/dnquery.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Discussion groups: search a list of discussion groups, Bitnet and Internet interest groups (Dartmouth list)" %HOST a www.nova.edu %FILE Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Excite: allows you to search the Web or Usent by keyword or concept" %HOST www.excite.com %CHECKED 01-Dec-95 #HTTP "External info: collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW" %HOST www_is.cs.utwente.nl %PORT 8080 %FILE cgi-bin/local/nph-susi1.pl %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Gopher Jewels Search: Search the Gopher Jewels (a collection of subject-oriented gophers)" %HOST galaxy.einet.net %FILE gopher/gopher.html %CHECKED 22-Jan-94 #HTTP "HotBot: Wired's entry into the keyword search business; 'cool' graphics; klunky interface; no filtering make this HotBot pretty cool " %HOST www.hotbot.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Hytelnet Web search: search all Hytelnet resource entries, via a web form, from Galaxy" %HOST galaxy.einet.net %FILE hytelnet/HYTELNET.html %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #HTTP "Infoseek: a keyword searching service ($) over WWW pages, Usenet, computer magazines, newspaper newsires, press releases, company profiles, moview reviews, technical support databases" %HOST www.infoseek.com %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #HTTP "Internet Sleuth: collected keyword search services" %HOST www.isleuth.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Navigate.net: keyword search of the Web, includes options for title, description, keywords, and URL" %HOST www.navigate.net %CHECKED 16-Feb-1996 #HTTP "NlightN: a database of databases, news, and Internet" %HOST www.nlightn.com %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "Open Text Index: search the web for a word or phrase" %HOST opentext.uunet.ca %PORT 8080 %FILE omw.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Reference.com: provides keyword search of Usenet news" %HOST www.reference.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "SavvySearch: Parallel Internet Query Engine" %HOST www.cs.colostate.edu %FILE ~dreiling/smartform.html %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "Uncover: index to thousands of periodicals" %HOST www.carl.org %FILE uncover/unchome.html %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "Web Catalog/CUI: is a collection of URL references built from a number of hand-crafted HTML lists, from Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve" %HOST cuiwww.unige.ch %FILE w3catalog %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "Web publishers: keyword search of Web-related resources and discussion" %HOST www.verity.com %FILE vlibsearch.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Web Search Engines: a meta-index of search engines on the Web, with a forms interface, from Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve" %HOST cuiwww.unige.ch %FILE meta-index.html %CHECKED 11-Mar-94 #HTTP "Web Spiders info: search the web for information about resources, collecting information into a database which can be queried; e.g., Web Crawler, Web Nomad, Web Worm, RBSE database, Lycos (Araneida, Lycosidae, Lycosa), Harvest Brokers; entry from Internet Tools Summary" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/nir-tools-spiders.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Web Spiders: Wanderers, Spiders and Robots; includes list of known robots/spiders, guidelines, standard for robot exclusion, by Martijn Koster" %HOST info.webcrawler.com %FILE mak/projects/robots/robots.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Spaces # Another way of breaking up the information spaces of the Internet is by protocol. Here, you'll find lists of servers of a particular protocol type. #FTP "FTP Sites list: list of Internet sites accepting anonymous ftp, maintained by Perry Rovers" %HOST rtfm.mit.edu %DIR pub/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/ %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 #HTTP "FTP Sites Web: Web interface to Perry Rover's FTP site monster list" %HOST www.info.net %FILE Public/ftp-list.html %CHECKED 18-Feb-95 #FTP "Gopher Sites: list of all gophers (long)" %HOST liberty.uc.wlu.edu %FILE pub/lawlib/all.gophers.links %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "Hytelnet/WWW: access to Hytelnet by Peter Scott" %HOST library.usask.ca %DIR hytelnet/ %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "WWW Servers/list: Wandex's list of WWW sites" %HOST www.netgen.com %DIR cgi/wandex %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "WWW Servers/geo: a long list of registered WWW servers listed geographically by continent and country" %HOST www.w3.org %FILE hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "WWW Sites(CityLink): state and city web sites" %HOST www.neosoft.com %DIR citylink/ %CHECKED 26-Jan-95 #HTTP "WWW Sites(Virtual Tourist): a geographic map to aid in locating Web sites and other resources" %HOST www.vtourist.com %FILE webmap %CHECKED 16-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Web Sites(City Net): explore and browse resources by geography (continent, region, country, city)" %HOST www.city.net %CHECKED 15-Dec-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION People # You can find people on the Net through directories of white pages (which now include Internet-accessible telephone databases) and yellow pages (which commonly list businesses based on subject, topic, or product categories). These resources should help you find nearly anyone who has either an email address or a telephone. #HTTP "Ahoy: integrated tool for finding personal home pages, using OKRA, WhoWhere?, and Internet Address Finder; institutional database from Yahoo!" %HOST ahoy.cs.washington.edu %PORT 6060 %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "555-1212: look up area codes, country codes, email addresses, phone numbers and web sites by area code" %HOST www.555-1212.com %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "ATT 800: American Telephone and Telegraph Toll Free Directory" %HOST www.tollfree.att.net %DIR dir800/ %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings" %HOST www.bigbook.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "BigFoot: search for people by name in a dabase of email addresses" %HOST www.bigfoot.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States" %HOST www.bigyellow.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "ClassMates: find high school alumni and friends; upgraded membership requires a fee" %HOST www.classmates.com %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #GOPHER "Directory services: a collection of white pages servers to look up people" %HOST sipb.mit.edu %FILE 1B%3aInternet%20whois%20servers %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Four11: Directory Services, a free and easy-to-use directory of online users and their e-mail addresses, from Four11 Directory Services (SLED)" %HOST www.four11.com %CHECKED 15-Dec-94 #HTTP "Global Yellow Pages: phone directories from around the world" %HOST www.globalyp.com %FILE world.htm %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Global X.500: gateway to directory services provided by many organizations" %HOST ds.internic.net %FILE ds/dspgx500.html #HTTP "GTE Superpages: interactive yellow pages from GTE" %HOST yp.gte.net %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Home Pages/directories: a collection of personal home pages lists and directories" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/culture-people-lists.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "International Directories: a collection of white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web for many countries in the world" %HOST www.infobel.be %FILE infobel/infobelworld.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "IAF: Internet Address Finder, a comprehensive e-mail white pages on the Internet" %HOST www.iaf.net %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "InfoSpace: a directory of businesses, phones, yellow, blue, and white pages for US, Canda, and other countries; integration with mapping service" %HOST www.infospace.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #TELNET "Knowbot: provides a uniform user interface to heterogeneous remote information services (Internic Point of contacts, MCImail, x500 databases, finger, nwhois, etc.)" %HOST info.cnri.reston.va.us %PORT 185 %CHECKED 11-Oct-93 #HTTP "Lookup!: searching for email based on a database" %HOST www.lookup.com %FILE search.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Lycos People Find: you can look up a person to find their address and phone number" %HOST www.lycos.com %FILE pplfndr.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Metroscope: metropolitan area Web sites" %HOST www.metroscope.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Netfind: a simple Internet `white pages' user directory" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/nir-utilities-netfind.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Netpages: a phone-book style directory for the Internet, from Aldea Communications, Inc." %HOST www.aldea.com %FILE wwwindex.html %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "OKRA: a directory of people on the Net; search by name, keyword, organization, or keyword; you can register your entry" %HOST okra.ucr.edu %DIR okra/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "PeopleLink: notifies you when people you know are online and lets you communicate with them instantly; like real-time email or your own private chat room" %HOST www.peoplelink.com %NEW #HTTP "SearchAmerica: searches databases for residential and business data; includes directory assistances and searching by name, address, or phone number; requires registration" %HOST www.searchamerica.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #GOPHER "Searching for people: a collection of resources to help you locate a specific person on the net" %HOST yaleinfo.yale.edu %PORT 7700 %FILE 11/Internet-People %CHECKED 22-Sep-94 #HTTP "Switchboard: A database of names of individuals and businesses, with phone numbers and postal addresses; users can add their electronic mail address or a URL to their listing; very extensive (over 90 million entries) and nationwide; excellent for finding people who have telephones (those old-fashioned devices with keypads on them that people used to talk through to communicate with each other)" %HOST www.switchboard.com %STAR %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US West Yellow Pages" %HOST yp.uswest.com %CHECKED 8-Feb-1997 #HTTP "US West White Pages" %HOST usw.four11.com %CHECKED 8-Feb-1997 #HTTP "Usenet: find people based on their Usenet posts" %HOST usenet-addresses.mit.edu %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "WhoWhere?: a comprehensive service for locating people and organizations on the Net; this is a vast collection--it will give you a lot of hits on a name; this is the directory to use for finding people who have an email account or a telephone" %HOST www.whowhere.com %STAR %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "Zip2: search for businesses by category, business name, city, by map area, or by distance from any location" %HOST www.zip2.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #SUB-SECTION Directories #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # -- These are directories of Internet-based information, services, and other resources; see also the general subject listings and keyword search resources. # -- List of Directories #HTTP "Lookup Top: the most popular quick reference resources: white and yellow pages, a dictionary, maps, and weather forecasts" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/lookup.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR # -- Selected specific directories #HTTP "American Universities" %HOST www.clas.ufl.edu %FILE CLAS/american-universities.html %CHECKED 06-May-94 #HTTP "BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings" %HOST www.bigbook.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States" %HOST www.bigyellow.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes" %HOST watserv1.uwaterloo.ca %FILE ~credmond/univ.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Chambers of Commerce" %HOST www.chamber-of-commerce.com %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Community Colleges" %HOST www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu %DIR cc/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Community Nets: Community Networks via Free-Net(r) and Web Sites" %HOST freenet.victoria.bc.ca %FILE freenets.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Electronic Conferences: Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, by Diane K. Kovacs" %HOST www.n2h2.com %DIR KOVACS/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Electronic Journals/ARL: Association of Research Libraries Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters" %HOST arl.cni.org %DIR scomm/edir/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "EZines List: summary of electronic zines by John Labovitz" %HOST www.meer.net %DIR ~johnl/e-zine-list/ %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "Ezines Site: zine.net, a guide to independent publishing" %HOST www.zine.net %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #EMAIL "Finding Lists: how to find LISTSERV lists" %ADR listserv@vm1.nodak.edu %BODY get NEW-LIST wouters %CHECKED 28-Aug-93 #HTTP "Internet Consultants: CommerceNet's directory of Internet consultants (products and services)" %HOST www.commerce.net %PORT 8000 %FILE directories/consultants/consultants.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "Interest Groups List: The Lists of Lists, a listing of special interest group mailing lists available on the Interne" %HOST sri.com %FILE netinfo/interest-groups.txt %CHECKED 19-Feb-94 #HTTP "Japanese: key information sources on Japan currently available over the Internet" %HOST fuji.stanford.edu %DIR XGUIDE/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "Library Access Script: a script to login to online card catalogs" %HOST sonoma.edu %FILE pub/libs.tar #HTTP "Liszt: directory of e-mail discussion groups" %HOST www.liszt.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "Net Orgs: Outposts on the Electronic Frontier, International, Groups Supporting the Online Community" %HOST rtfm.mit.edu %FILE pub/usenet/news.answers/net-community/orgs-list %CHECKED 19-Feb-94 #HTTP "Nonprofits: Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet, by Ellen Spertus" %HOST www.ai.mit.edu %FILE people/ellens/non.html %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "PAML: Publicly Available Mailing Lists, a list of mailing lists available primarily through the Internet and the UUCP network, by Stephanie da Silva" %HOST www.neosoft.com %FILE internet/paml %CHECKED 04-Nov-94 #HTTP "Patents: patent searching by class/subclass, by Gregory Aharonian" %HOST sunsite.unc.edu %DIR patents/intropat.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "People: lists a variety of services to lookup or locate people or organizations" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/internet-searching-people.html %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Private Schools" %HOST www.petersons.com %FILE features/viewbook.html %UDPATED #HTTP "Publisher's Catalogs" %HOST www.lights.com %DIR publisher/ %UDPATED #HTTP "Reference-IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users" %HOST www.ipl.org %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Toll-free" %HOST www.tollfree.dir.att.net %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Top of the Web: a selected list of the five best resource sites in a variety of subject categories, including science, humanities, news, business, lookup tools, marketing, money, computers, software, art, humanities, and others" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 %STAR #HTTP "UNCAT: The electronic catalog of uncataloged titles (businesses, nonprofit groups, trade associations, museums and self-published authors), from Sapphire Press" %HOST www.sapphire.com %DIR UNCAT/ %CHECKED 01-Sep-94 #HTTP "US Universities and Community Colleges" %HOST www.utexas.edu %DIR world/univ/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Web Servers: geographical directory of WWW Information Services" %HOST www.vtourist.com %FILE webmap %CHECKED 22-Jan-94 #HTTP "World primary schools: You can link to K-12 servers by state, country, or special category." %HOST web66.coled.umn.edu %FILE schools.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "World Universities: connect to an alphabetic listing or a country or region listing. The entries consist of the University name with a link to the Web site." %HOST www.mit.edu %PORT 8001 %FILE people/cdemello/univ.html #SUB-SECTION Services #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # There are a variety of services that you can take advantage of online; some are free; some offer you ways to communicate with other people in special ways (such as Internet-FAX gateways) or services to help you find specific information. #EMAIL "Anonymous post" %ADR anonymus+ping@tygra.michigan.com %BODY help %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #EMAIL "Anonymous post" %ADR help@anon.penet.fi %BODY help %CHECKED 16-Aug-93 %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #EMAIL "Anonymous remail" %ADR remail@tamsun.tamu.edu %SUBJECT remail help %CHECKED 17-Jan-94 #EMAIL "BITFTP: obtain files via anonymous ftp on Bitnet" %ADR Bitftp@PUCC.Princeton.edu %BODY help %CHECKED 13-Dec-93 #TELNET "Correct Time/NBS: tells National Bureau of Standards correct time" %HOST india.colorado.edu %PORT 13 #TELNET "Domain Name Lookup: translate domain names to numeric IP address" %HOST 130.59.1.40 %LOGIN lookup %CHECKED 06-May-94 #EMAIL "Email FTP: get files at anonymous ftp sites via email." %ADR ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com %BODY help %CHECKED 1-Nov-93 #EMAIL "Email Gopher: use a gopher via email" %ADR gophermail@ncc.go.jp %BODY help %CHECKED 2-Nov-93 #EMAIL "Email Gopher: use a gopher via email" %ADR gophermail@calvin.edu %BODY help %CHECKED 05-Feb-94 #EMAIL "Email WWW: obtain a web file (e.g., http) via email (body: www URL); URL = Uniform resource locator" %ADR listproc@www0.cern.ch %BODY help %CHECKED 20-Aug-94 #EMAIL "Email Usenet: post to newsgroup via email" %ADR hierarchy-group-name@cs.utexas.edu %SUBJECT Your Subject %BODY Your Contents %CHECKED 1-Nov-93 #EMAIL "FAXNET:FAX's via email ($)" %ADR info@awa.com %BODY help #FTP "FAX FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet?, by Kevin Savetz" %HOST rtfm.mit.edu %FILE pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/fax-faq %CHECKED 15-Apr-94-RECHECK #HTTP "HTML Validation: a service to help you check the syntax of your HTML documents" %HOST www.webtechs.com %DIR html-val-svc/ %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #EMAIL "IP address resolver: given a site name, obtain its numerical IP address" %ADR resolve@widener.edu %BODY site SITE NAME %CHECKED 25-Jun-94 #EMAIL "Mail name server: gives email information about many email names (e.g. IP address given name)" %ADR dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr %BODY help #HTTP "NeverForget: a free email reminder service" %HOST www.neverforget.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #EMAIL "RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues." %ADR rfc-info@isi.edu %BODY help: ways_to_get_rfcs #------------------------------------------------------------------------- #SECTION APPLICATIONS #========================================================================= # The online world is used in a wide range of ways for information dissemination, communication, and interaction. This section highlights examples of CMC used on the Internet. #SUB-SECTION Commerce #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Business has discovered online communication. While it was only a few years ago that some major corporations had no idea of the online world, today many companies use the Internet for commerce, communication, marketing, and even sales. This section highlights where you can find out about business online and some examples of the use of the Internet for marketing. #SUB-SUB-SECTION Information #HTTP "ACN: The American Community Network (ACN) provides a point of access to information and contacts regarding economic and business development in America's cities, communities and regions" %HOST www.acn-net.com %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Advertising Blacklist: a compendium of advertisers who have misused Net access, compiled by Axel Boldt" %HOST math-www.uni-paderborn.de %FILE ~axel/BL/blacklist.html %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "Advertising Guide: The Internet Advertising Resource Guide, maintained by Hairong Li, Michigan State University; links to a large number of sources of information about Internet advertising, including collections and topics, studies, storefronts, and other information" %HOST www.admedia.org %DIR internet/ %CHECKED 1-Sep-1997 #HTTP "Advertising/marketing law: emphasis on infomercials, home shopping, and direct response tv, includes intellectual property and telemarketing, by Lewis Rose" %HOST www.webcom.com %FILE ~lewrose/home.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "BizWeb: a subject-oriented directory of companies on the Web" %HOST www.bizweb.com %CHECKED 20-Apr-95 #HTTP "Business Top: the top business information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/business.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Canadian Business: Canadian Internet Business Directory" %HOST www.cibd.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Career Mosaic: high-tech companies offering career information" %HOST www.careermosaic.com %DIR cm/ %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #GOPHER "Commercial Services: a list of telnet connections to many commercial information services, from The World" %HOST gopher.std.com %PORT 70 %FILE 11/Commercial %CHECKED 15-Apr-94 #HTTP "Computer+Communications: Computer and Communication Company Sites on the Web, by James E. (Jed) Donnelley" %HOST www.cmpcmm.com %DIR cc/ %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "Cyberatlas: a collection of information about Internet statistics and demographics; includes detailed analysis of demographic surveys; for example, looking at A. C. Neilsen's work on Internet demographics; includes quick facts such as registered domains; in general, fairly thorough and easy to use; well worth a stop to see what the current trends are in Internet technology use" %HOST www.cyberatlas.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 %STAR #HTTP "EOTW: Entrepeneurs on the Web, useful business information and services for entrepreneurs" %HOST www.eotw.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "ESS: Internet Entrepreneurs Support Service (IESS) is a group of associated individuals who promote the business use of the Internet in an ethical manner: how to start and conduct business on the Internet, a forum for getting individuals together (via the Internet and otherwise)" %HOST www.entrepreneurs.net %FILE iess/iess.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "FECRS: Fairfax Electronic Commerce Resource Center; Electronic Commerce (EC), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Continous Acquisition Lifecycle Support (CALS) , Enterprise Integration (EI) and Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR)" %HOST www.ecrc.gmu.edu %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "GovBot: database of US Government Web sites to support business" %HOST www.business.gov %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Hermes: research project on the commercial uses of the World Wide Web" %HOST www-personal.umich.edu %FILE ~sgupta/hermes.htm %CHECKED 02-Feb-95 #HTTP "Ho, Thomas: favorite Electronic Commerce WWW resources, includes information sources, links to articles, economic development, service/presence providers" %HOST e-comm.iworld.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Hoover's Online: directory of business information" %HOST www.hoovers.com %UPDATE #HTTP "InterQuote: continuously updating stock market information service" %HOST www.interquote.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Inet Marketing: archives of the Internet Marketing mailing list" %HOST galaxy.einet.net %DIR hypermail/inet-marketing/ %CHECKED 20-Apr-95 #HTTP "IOMA: Institute Of Management and Administration, Information Services for Professionals" %HOST starbase.ingress.com %DIR ioma/ %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Marketing Top: the top marketing information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/marketing.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Marketing/CMEs: Marketing in Computer-Mediated Environments Home Page, from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA" %HOST www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "Money Top: the top money information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/marketing.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Net value: the Web Strategy Forum, includes Interesting Business Sites on the Web, by Bob O'Keefe at the School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute" %HOST www.owi.com %DIR netvalue/ %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Publications: Print Publications Related to Business Use of the Internet, from Tenagra" %HOST arganet.tenagra.com %FILE Tenagra/books.html %CHECKED 11-Nov-94 #HTTP "Ventana 500: the most useful online business resources from Ventana Media " %HOST www.vmedia.com %FILE vvc/onlcomp/business/index.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Marketplaces # ----- Lists of Marketplaces #HTTP "Shop D Net: a list of virtual marketplaces, from Blake and Associates, Internet Marketing Consultants" %HOST www.neosoft.com %FILE citylink/blake/malls.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 # ----- Selected Instances of Marketplaces #HTTP "CommerceNet: Internet-based infrastructure for electronic commerce, created and operated by a consortium of major Silicon Valley users, providers and developers under Smart Valley, Inc." %HOST logic.stanford.edu %FILE cit/commercenet.html %CHECKED 03-Jul-94 #HTTP "Digital's Emall: Digital Equipment Corporation's Electronic Shopping Mall" %HOST www.service.digital.com %FILE html/emall.html %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "eMall: WWW shopping and information" %HOST eMall.com %CHECKED 1-Oct-94 #HTTP "IBC: Internet Business Connection, An electronic shopping mall and a service for companies that would like to promote their products or services on the Internet" %HOST www.intbc.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Internet Shopping Network: products from hundreds of vendors, along with query interface" %HOST www.internet.net %CHECKED 03-Jul-94 #HTTP "Sofcom: home shopping, information providers, non-profits" %HOST www.sofcom.com.au %CHECKED 18-Nov-94 #SUB-SECTION Communication #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # The online world is all about communication, so it is not surprising that examples of the Internet as used for communication abound. This section highlights how computer-mediated communication on the Internet is being used in a range of context--from individual and small group interaction to mass and societal uses. I list groups studying these contexts for communication as well as examples and software. #SUB-SUB-SECTION Individual #HTTP "CMC-Interpersonal: list of interpersonal tools for CMC (mail, talk)" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/cmc-interpersonal.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Home Pages: a collection of personal home pages lists" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/info/culture-people-lists.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Group #HTTP "CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)" %HOST it.njit.edu %FILE njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html %CHECKED 02-Mar-94 #HTTP "CERC: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University; research, development, and demonstration of information technologies that enable collaboration" %HOST www.cerc.wvu.edu %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "Collaboration: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability, entry from W3C site" %HOST www.w3.org %FILE hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and graduate students at the University of Michigan; fields represented range from computer science through business to psychology; research and graduate training focus on understanding new ways that work can be organized by exploiting computer-mediation by focusing on the interplay of technology and human factors" %HOST www.crew.umich.edu %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "CWCW/Groupware: a comprehensive index of CSCW and Groupware resources on the web, including papers, products, research centers, and information on types of groupware, such as videoconferencing, workflow, and shared writing and drawing." %HOST www.crew.umich.edu %FILE ~brinck/cscw.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "CSCW Group: Research Group on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory" %HOST orgwis.gmd.de %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "CSCW Lab: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory at the Fraunhofer-Institut fur Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany" %HOST www.igd.fhg.de %DIR cscw-lab/ %CHECKED 22-Sep-94 #HTTP "CSCW pages: The unOfficial Yellow Pages of CSCW" %HOST www.tft.tele.no %DIR cscw/ %CHECKED 18-Mar-95 #HTTP "Collaborative Comm: Collaborative Networked Communication--MUDs as Systems Tools, by Remy Evard" %HOST www.ccs.neu.edu %FILE USER/remy/documents/cncmast.html %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "Collaborative Design: Architecture and CAAD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich" %HOST www.arch.ethz.ch %FILE ~dave/cmc-collab.html %CHECKED 18-Mar-95 #HTTP "CRTR-U of CO: Collaboration Technology Research Group (group user interfaces, distributed editors, workflow systems, cooperativee grown information systems), University of Colorado" %HOST www.cs.colorado.edu %FILE homes/carlosm/public_html/ctrg.html %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "Collaboration: Workshop on Wide-Area Collaboration and Cooperative Computing" %HOST www.ai.mit.edu %FILE projects/iiip/colab/workshop.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "Collaboration info: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability" %HOST www.w3.org %FILE hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #FTP "Computer Network Conf: A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing, by D. Reed" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/rfc/rfc1324.txt %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #HTTP "Groupware/teaching: Publications on Use of Computer Groupware in Teaching" %HOST vm.tamu.edu %FILE ~vaph/klemm/whoami.html %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Groupware Yellow Pages: information resources, from Consensus" %HOST www.consensus.com %CHECKED 29-Oct-94 #HTTP "Key Centre: collaborative design in computing, University of Sydney, Australia" %HOST www.arch.su.edu.au %DIR kcdc/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Mediation: the first dispute resolution firm to actually provide methods which are safe, private and cost effective by the use of Internet" %HOST www.janzengroup.com %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "Moderator's Page: resources for moderators of online discussion groups" %HOST cac.psu.edu %FILE ~mauri/moderators.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #FTP "MOO Papers: Pavel Curtis' collection of MU* papers" %HOST ftp.parc.xerox.com %DIR pub/MOO/papers/ %CHECKED 02-Jul-94 #HTTP "MONET: Meeting on the Network multimedia conferencing system at CERC, West Virginia University" %HOST www.cerc.wvu.edu %FILE dice/monet/monet.html %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "MUD info: Multiple User Dialogue/Dimension/Dungeon FAQs, Lists, Information, Collections, Servers, Archives, Newsgroups, by Lydia Leong" %HOST www.cis.upenn.edu %FILE ~lwl/mudinfo.html %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #HTTP "MUD papers/Cherny: gender and discourse related MUD papers, by Lynn Cherny" %HOST bhasha.stanford.edu %FILE ~cherny/papers.html %CHECKED 18-Nov-94 #HTTP "Mondes virtuels: a listing of information about online virtual spaces" %HOST www.uqam.ca %FILE ~gingras/tour/moondes.html %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #GOPHER "NCW: National Center for the Workplace (NCW) Gopher" %HOST uclink.berkeley.edu %PORT 3030 %FILE 1 %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 #HTTP "Project H: an ongoing computer-mediated collaboration, on a Comserve-sponsored hotline, of more than a hundred international researchers" %HOST www.arch.su.edu.au %FILE PROJECTH/index.html %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development" %HOST www.eit.com %FILE projects/share/share/share-home.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "Tools: a list of Internet tools for group communication" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/cmc-group.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Web Conferencing: by David Woolley" %HOST freenet.msp.mn.us %FILE people/drwool/webconf.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Organizational #HTTP "Client/Server: Client/Server Coffeehouse, discussion about client-server systems in organizations" %HOST www.onr.com %FILE clients.html %CHECKED 18-Mar-95 #HTTP "CORPS: Computing, Organizations, Policy, and Society, study of computerization in organizations, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine" %HOST www.ics.uci.edu %DIR CORPS/ %CHECKED 20-Aug-94 #FTP "CWIS Paper: Campus-Wide Info Systems by Judy Hallman" %HOST sunsite.unc.edu %FILE pub/docs/about-the-net/cwis/hallman.txt %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #HTTP "IOS: Interorganizational Systems (IOS) WorldNet" %HOST www-iwi.unisg.ch %FILE iswnet/index.html %CHECKED 02-Feb-95 #HTTP "OMT: Organization and Management Theory Division the Academy of Management, to foster communication and to serve as an information resource to Organization scholars worldwide" %HOST juliet.stfx.ca %FILE people/fac/dlemke/omt.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Mass # ----- Lists #HTTP "Campus Newspapers: Campus Newspapers on the Internet, by Jonathan Bell" %HOST beacon-www.asa.utk.edu %FILE resources/papers.html %CHECKED 18-Mar-95 #HTTP "Daily business: Daily sources of business and economic news" %HOST www.helsinki.fi %FILE ~lsaarine/news.html %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "Editor and Publisher: Media information sources" %HOST www.mediainfo.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Journalism/Comm schools: World Wide Web sites of interest to those in the fields of journalism and mass communications" %HOST www.jou.ufl.edu %FILE commres/jouwww.htm %CHECKED 21-Aug-94 #HTTP "Journalism: Journalism entry from WWW Virtual Library, by John S. Makulowich" %HOST www.trainer.com %DIR pub/journalism/ %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "Movies and TV: Nova's Movies and TV information" %HOST www.nova.edu %FILE Inter-Links/movies.html %CHECKED 23-Aug-95 #HTTP "News Top: the top general news sources of the Web, described and reviewed" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/news.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #FTP "SPJ: Society of Professional Journalists" %HOST ftp.netcom.com %FILE pub/spj/html/spj.html %CHECKED 18-Sep-94 #HTTP "TV Networks: Television network information" %HOST www.tvnet.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Tools: a list of Internet tools for mass communication" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/cmc-mass.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 # ----- Application Areas #HTTP "Amateur Radio: the World of Internet Amateur (Ham) Radio" %HOST www.acs.ncsu.edu %DIR HamRadio/ %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #HTTP "Cable TV: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc." %HOST www.cablelabs.com %CHECKED 27-Aug-94 #HTTP "Intelsat: the leading provider of satellite telecommunications services" %HOST www.intelsat.int %PORT 8080 %CHECKED 20-Jan-95 #HTTP "Live TV: demonstration consists of live video and audio using the vsdemo VuSystem application that uses a live television source on the VuNet" %HOST tns-www.lcs.mit.edu %FILE cgi-bin/vs/vsdemo %CHECKED 11-Mar-94 #HTTP "Persuasion: Concepts, perspectives, idea generation device, resource links, and assignments, for students and others interested in the future of advertising, public relations, and commercial persuasive communication in the context of the new electronic media" %HOST jamy.apr.ua.edu %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "Satellite: The Satellite TV Page" %HOST itre.uncecs.edu %FILE misc/sat.html %CHECKED 21-Jan-94 # ----- Outlets/List #HTTP "Electronic Newstand: magazines, magazines, magazines--electronic and the dead tree variety" %HOST www.enews.com %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Newslink: news resource with direct links to more than 1,000 online newspaper, magazine and broadcasting sites." %HOST www.newslink.org %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 %STAR #HTTP "Newspage: thousands of categorized news stories" %HOST www.newspage.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Broadcasters: entry from WWW VL" %HOST www.comlab.ox.ac.uk %FILE archive/publishers/broadcast.html %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "MegaMedia: a list of electronic media on the Web--film, video, radio, television, cinema and new-media sites" %HOST www.rtvf.nwu.edu %FILE links/links.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Radio Stations" %HOST www.brsradio.com %DIR stations/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Radio Tower: a directory of live audio broadcasters over the Internet" %HOST www.radiotower.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "TV Stations" %HOST tvnet.com %FILE tv/us/stations5.html # ----- Selected outlets and more information #HTTP "BBC Networking Club" %HOST www.bbcnc.org.uk %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "C-SPAN: Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network" %HOST www.c-span.org %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "CBC Radio" %HOST radioworks.cbc.ca %CHECKED 18-Mar-95 #HTTP "CBS" %HOST www.cbs.com %CHECKED 02-Feb-95 #HTTP "ClariNet: complete electronic newspaper delivered via Net" %HOST www.clarinet.com %CHECKED 05-Feb-94 #HTTP "ITR: Internet Talk Radio" %HOST www.ncsa.uiuc.edu %FILE radio/radio.html %CHECKED 25-Feb-94 #HTTP "PBS: United States Public Broadcasting Service" %HOST www.pbs.org %CHECKED 20-Jul-94 #HTTP "NBC" %HOST www.nbc.com %CHECKED 11-Jul-96 #HTTP "VOA: Voice of America (USA)" %HOST www.voa.gov %CHECKED 05-Feb-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Societal #HTTP "Cyberpunk: texts for understanding technology and culture, from the English Server" %HOST english-server.hss.cmu.edu %FILE Cyber.html %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "Friends + Partners: USA and Russia information and communication" %HOST www.friends-partners.org %DIR friends/ %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Net Revisited: The Network Nation Revisited, a bachelor's thesis examining Hiltz and Turoff's predictions for CMC on societal change, by David Belson" %HOST www.stevens-tech.edu %FILE ~dbelson/thesis/thesis.html #SUB-SUB-SECTION Surveillance and remote control #HTTP "Anthony's List: Internet-accessible machines for vending, temperature sensors, tele-operated machinery, equipment status, cameras/video, and others, by Anthony Anderberg" %HOST www.dsu.edu %FILE ~anderbea/machines.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 %STAR #HTTP "bsy's List: Internet Accessible (non-Coke) Machines, connections to many surveillance and remote sensing examples" %HOST www-cse.ucsd.edu %FILE users/bsy/iam.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Remote Sensing: entry from the WWW VL" %HOST www.vtt.fi %DIR aut/ava/rs/virtual/ %CHECKED 20-Aug-95 #HTTP "Web Voyeur: look at stuff through the Web" %HOST rainier.net %DIR ~larry/web-voyeur/ %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Scientific # Since the Web was invented by scientists, it is no surprise that scientific communication is common online. In this section, I list a few major examples of sites that are putting the Internet to use for scientific communication. #HTTP "AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science" %HOST www.aaas.org %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information--worldwide scientific, technical and medical information" %HOST www.cisti.nrc.ca %FILE cisti/cisti.html %CHECKED 11-Nov-94 #HTTP "CAS: The Chicago Academy of Sciences" %HOST www.mcs.com %FILE ~cas/home.html %CHECKED 25-Nov-94 #HTTP "CS Tech Reports: Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites" %HOST www.rdt.monash.edu.au %FILE tr/siteslist.html %CHECKED 20-Jul-94 #HTTP "DoD IAC: Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) Hub Page" %HOST www.dtic.dla.mil %DIR iac/ %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "EI: Engineering Information, Inc., a community of engineers sharing research, knowledge, and data" %HOST www.ei.org %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "EnviroWeb: environmental information source on the Internet" %HOST www.envirolink.org %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "NAS: National Academy of Sciences" %HOST www.nas.edu %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library; an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and educational use" %HOST www.ncstrl.org %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "NSF-USA: The National Science Foundation (NSF), United States" %HOST www.nsf.gov %CHECKED 25-Nov-94 #HTTP "OSTI-USA: The US Office of Scientific and Technical Communication" %HOST apollo.osti.gov %FILE html/osti/ostipg.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "Science Top: the top science information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/science.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "SETN: The Science and Engineering Television Network, Inc., a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television" %HOST www.service.com %FILE stv/setncall.html %CHECKED 01-Sep-94 #SUB-SECTION Education #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Educators are using online actively to extend the context of their teaching and students' learning. I've selected resources for this section which connect you to major online information sources about education. # ----- Reviewed Sites #HTTP "Education Top: the resources for educators; empahsis on primary education, but some higher-education resources; described and reviewed" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/edu.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR # ----- Major Collections # These are major collections of information about the support of education online which are distinguished by their depth, breadth, or authority. #HTTP "AskERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, US federally-funded collection of education-related resources; AskERIC includes a question and answer service, a virtual library, and a research and development team; the collections are well-organized and frequently updated" %HOST ericir.syr.edu %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Blue Web'n: a library of Internet-based instructional information; you can quickly search this database by audience type, application type, content area, and other search terms; you'll find activities, lessons, references, tools, and projects listed for a variety of educational audiences part of the Pacific Bell initiative, Education First, and of Pacific Bell's umbrella program to benefit education, Knowledge Network" %HOST www.kn.pacbell.com %DIR wired/bluewebn/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "CAUSE: association for managing and using information technology in higher education; this site includes a discussion of current issues, information about conferences, professional development, publications, information services, and collaborative alliances with other organizations; the focus is on the future of higher education in the information age; this site is well-organized and has breadth and depth" %HOST cause-www.colorado.edu %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "CNIDR/K-12 education: educational sites hosted at the Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, includes ARTSEDGE (National Arts and Education Information Network, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), EdWeb (Online K-12 Education Resource Guide, Corporation for Public Broadcasting), Global SchoolHouse Project (Collaborative Internet Classroom Project, National Science Foundation), Janice's K-12 Cyberspace Outpost (K-12 Educational Uses of the Internet, J3N3), Presidential Awardees Internet Pilot (Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, National Science Foundation), and K-12 Opportunities and Resources (On-line mailing lists for K-12 projects)" %HOST k12.cnidr.org %STAR %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "CEARCH: The Cisco Educational Archives (CEARCH) Virtual Schoolhouse; this is a collection of links of interest to the K-12 educator; it includes a comprehensive list of schools and universities on the Internet, educational links by subject, links to libararies and books sites, museums, exhibits, networking resources, technical information about the Internet, and teaching resources; this is a project of Cisco Systems, Inc., the leading global supplier of internetworking hardware (routers, switches, servers, software) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) Office of Information Technology's SunSITE, an educational service of Sun Microsystems, Inc." %HOST sunsite.unc.edu %FILE cisco/schoolhouse.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "GSN: Global SchoolNet Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the instructional applications of telecommunication; includes registry of best curriculumn projects, tutorials, articles about using the Internet in the classroom, news and discussion, and events and contests; includes a link to the collaborative project with Microsoft to create a comprehensive site for education resources on the Internet" %HOST www.gsn.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-RELnet: U.S. National Educational Laboratories network, a network of regional educational laboratories and educational research and development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Department, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI); this page links to contact information and information servers of the labs" %HOST www.nwrel.org %FILE national/regional-labs.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Web66: resources and information to facilitate the introduction of Web technology into K-12 schools; the project helps educators learn how to establish Internet services and distribute and use resources on the Web; provides specific examples of how the Web is used in a classroom at the Hillside Elementary School in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA, the pilot school for the Web66 project; the Mustang project helps teachers prepare and evaluate projects using Internet resources in their classroom" %HOST web66.coled.umn.edu %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 # ----- Specialized Education Sites #HTTP "AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education" %HOST www.aace.org %CHECKED 8-Feb-1997 #HTTP "Adventure Learning: A directory of sites that involve students in explorations; this page, provided by adventureonline.com, a resource center for activities of this type, provides links to a variety of adventure projects--for example, the JASON project to explore the undersea world, MayaQuest to explore Central America's treasures and GOALS, another site for Global Online Adventure Learning" %HOST www.adventureonline.com %FILE other.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "aeRes: Australian Educational Resources, Australia's largest and most comprehensive Internet site for Australian educational information. Topics include primary, secondary, tertiary and technical fields of study" %HOST www.gu.edu.au %DIR aeres/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Canada's SchoolNet: an educational initiative for learning through electronic networking in Canada, supported by government agencies (provincial, territorial, and federal), industry, and educational institutions; site includes online resources, staff, and information about projects; site includes a range of information on this national initiative" %HOST schoolnet.carleton.ca %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "CASO Directory: Cape Software Directory, The Internet University - College Courses by Computer (companion site to the book), comprehensive listing of online college courses available (700+ courses); profiles of over thirty accredited online course providers; dynamic links to more than 2,000 Internet study resource sites" %HOST www.caso.com %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #HTTP "CEE: Center for Excellence in Education, to help our best students and teachers keep the United States competitive in science and technology, and to nurture international understanding among potential leaders of many countries" %HOST rsi.cee.org %CHECKED 19-Aug-94 #HTTP "CEFPI: The Council of Educational Facility Planners, International, an information agency that supports its members' professional efforts in creating world class educational facilities; site features a wide variety of educational facility planning information including the latest technology/Internet issues; thisis the place to learn about issues such as issues of lighting, gross area needed per student, and strategic planning for educational facilities" %HOST www.cefpi.com %FILE cefpi %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Chronicle of Higher Education: Academe this Week, offers guide to contents of The Chronicle of Higher Education and all Positions Available ads, calendar of events, deadlines for grants, papers, fellowships, put out every Tuesday at noon EST" %HOST chronicle.merit.edu %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "COL: Commonwealth of Learning, distance education techniques and associated communications technologies; an organization established by fifty-three member countries to improve access to and the quality of education using distance learning and communications technologies; web site includes administrative and organizational information as well as information on programs, publications, videos, and news" %HOST www.col.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "CTC: Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway, resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12" %HOST www.tc.cornell.edu %FILE Edu/MathSciGateway/index.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 #HTTP "DeweyWeb: facilitating communication between students from all over the world; emphasis is on helping students both gain and produce information by contributing their own findings and ideas; sponsored by the University of Michigan and Interactive Communications and Simulations (ICS), a program of exciting and innovative educational telecommunications exercise" %HOST ics.soe.umich.edu %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "DLD: Distance Learning Directory, an extensive listing of distance learning/distance education information and resources, including links to other directories, compiled by the Howard University Continuing Education Program" %HOST www.con-ed.howard.edu %FILE WebPages/dll/Dist-Lrn/dld.htm %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "EDUCOM: addresses critical issues surrounding the role of information technology in higher education; includes links to EDUCOM information conferences, seminars, news, initiatives, programs, projects, and cooperative efforts" %HOST www.educom.edu %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "ENC: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, instructional materials for K-12 math and science" %HOST www.enc.org %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "ESI: Educational Software Institute, a commercial site offering a large collection of K-12 educational software from hundreds of software publishers; you can search the online catalog to find software and order online" %HOST www.edsoft.com %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "FinAid: The financial aid information page, information about student financial aid, from Mark Kantrowitz, author of the The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students" %HOST www.finaid.org %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "GNA: Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with Usenet University; goal is to create an fully accredited online university" %HOST uu-nna.mit.edu %PORT 8001 %FILE uu-gna/index.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "HUB: articles, curriculum, newsletters, projects, reports, and software for mathematics and science education, operated by TERC, Technical Education Research Center, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and accessibility of education; site links to projects (e.g., Testbed for Telecollaboration) and network resources produced by TERC (e.g., Planning Guide for Network Science)" %HOST hub.terc.edu %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "IAT: Institute for Academic technology, a site devoted to interactive technologies in education; includes programs and training information and resources to facilitate the use of affordable technologies in higher education; located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" %HOST www.iat.unc.edu %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "iCDL: International Centre for Distance Learning, in the United Kingdom on the campus of the Open University, disseminating distance education information worldwide" %HOST acs-info.open.ac.uk %FILE info/other/ICDL/ICDL-Facts.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "IKE: IBM Kiosk for Education, a collection of resources about IBM products and service to support education; a higher education information service managed by the University of Washington in partnership with IBM" %HOST ike.engr.washington.edu %FILE ike.html %CHECKED 02-Mar-94 #HTTP "ILT: Institute for Learning Technologies, part of the Columbia University (New York, USA) Virtual Information Initiative; resources and information about education" %HOST www.ilt.tc.columbia.edu %CHECKED 06-May-94 #HTTP "inSITE: Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, exploring ways in which the Internet can be used both to benefit teacher education programs at colleges and universities around the world and to support K-12 staff development technology initiatives" %HOST teach.virginia.edu %DIR insite %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Jones Ed Co: Jones Education Company" %HOST www.jec.edu %CHECKED 08-Feb-1997 %CHECKED 1-Sep-1997 #HTTP "Kidlink: a grassroots project aimed at getting as many children in the age group 10-15 involved in a global dialogs" %HOST www.kidlink.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "K-5 Cybertrail: developed by public broadcaster WMHT of New York state's Capital Region as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting K-12 Internet Testbed Project, an online tutorial for elementary educators who are new to the Internet" %HOST www.wmht.org %DIR trail/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "K-12 LiveText: developed by the Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, to provide K-12 related resources to educators, students and others; this site contains school resources such as planning guides, technology planning and policy; readings in technology and pedagogy as well as telecommunications and reform policy; a page of student publications and student work; and a page for curricula in a variety of subject areas; this site serves as a broad index to other sites and is part of the Institute for Learning Technologies web at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA" %HOST www.ilt.columbia.edu %FILE k12/livetext/index.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "K-12 Busy Teacher: a directory of resources for teachers divided by subject area; an extremely extensive database of well-annoted links of resources for a variety of subjects, such as archaeology, art, astronomy...sciences, social studies; put together by Carolyn Cole" %HOST www.ceismc.gatech.edu %DIR BusyT/ %CHECKED 08-Jul-1996 #HTTP "K-12 Registry: International WWW Schools Registry, a list of schools with Web sites worldwide, from Web66 project, College of Education, University of Minnesota" %HOST web66.coled.umn.edu %FILE schools.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "LRDC: Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh--thinking, knowing, and understanding in and beyond school" %HOST www.lrdc.pitt.edu %CHECKED 02-Jul-94 #HTTP "Maricopa CLI: Center for Learning and Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona, USA, includes extensive directory for teaching and learning, using technology; a national model for motivating, infusing, and promoting innovation and change in the community college environment" %HOST www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 #HTTP "OISE: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, a graduate school of education affiliated with the University of Toronto, offering graduate degrees and research and development in education" %HOST www.oise.on.ca %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "Peterson's: Educational Center for education and lifelong learning" %HOST www.petersons.com %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Plugged In: a non-profit group dedicated to bringing the educational opportunities created by new technologies to children and families from low-income communities, located in East Palo Alto, California" %HOST www.pluggedin.org %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 #HTTP "School.Net: educational information and links to schools, Internet help for teachers, students, parents" %HOST k12.school.net %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Singapore-MOE: Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore" %HOST www.moe.ac.sg %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "SLN: Science Learning Network, a site to support inquiry science, involving students in hands-on explorations; site links to a variety of science museums, each of which support a variety of online exhibits and exercises for students; students and educators can take part in making connections and exchanging project information and ideas; funded by Unisys and the U.S. National Science foundation" %HOST www.sln.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Syllabus: resources for educators on how technology can be incorporated into instruction. It contains news, case studies, product reviews and announcements, and feature articles on technology written by educators and experts in educational technology" %HOST www.syllabus.com %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "Teachers helping Teachers: helps with basic teaching tips, ideas, methodologies, and a forum for experienced teachers to share expertise and tips; tips are practical and detailed; prepared by Dr. Scott Mandel" %HOST www.pacificnet.net %DIR ~mandel/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "TERC: Technical Education Research Center, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and accessibility of education" %HOST www.hub.terc.edu %FILE gn/hub/owner/terc.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "UK-DEE: United Kingdom Department for Education and Employment" %HOST www.open.gov.uk %FILE dfee/dfeehome.htm %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "UK-NCET: National Council for Educational Technology Information Service (UK)" %HOST datasun.ncet.org.uk %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #HTTP "UK-TLTP: United Kingdom Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, makes teaching and learning more productive and efficient by using modern technology" %HOST www.icbl.hw.ac.uk %DIR tltp/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-DLA: United States Distance Learning Association, a non-profit association to promote the use of distance learning for education and training; includes membership and administrative information about the USDLA as well as links to other sources of information about distance and life long learning" %HOST www.usdla.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-ED: United States Department of Education; includes information about the department itself and how to make the most of its resources as well as information about guides, funding, and other valuable educational sites" %HOST www.ed.gov %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #FTP "USENET University: an online a society of people interested in learning, teaching or tutoring" %HOST nic.funet.fi %FILE pub/doc/uu/FAQ %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #HTTP "US-DoD: United States Department of Defense Education Gateway, information on education efforts sponsored by the US DoD including such projects as the DoD science, mathematics, and engineering education enhancement efforts" %HOST www.acq.osd.mil %DIR ddre/edugate/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-NEA: United States National Education Association; advancing the cause of public education at all levels; web site includes tips and materials for parents and teachers" %HOST www.nea.org %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "US-NSNT: United States National School Network Testbed, exploring ways to use technology for enriching the school curriculum" %HOST copernicus.bbn.com %DIR testbed2/ %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-PBS Learning: Learning Services from the Public Broadcasting Service, a United States-funded television network; web includes how to use PBS programs as part of learning as well as projects and activities for students and teachers" %HOST www.pbs.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-PTA: The United States Parent-Teachers Organization, a volunteer organization for the benefit of children's education, health and safety; includes resources, archives, and discussions of issues, initiatives, and activities as well as links to web pages to local and state PTA chapters" %HOST www.pta.org %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US-WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an agency for resource sharing among 15 US western states" %HOST www.wiche.edu %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "VOU: Virtual Online University, an online liberal arts university online, using a virtual environment called a VEE, Virtual Education Environment" %HOST www.athena.edu %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "Yahooligans!: this is a Web guide for kids produced by Yahoo, Inc., contains content geared toward 8 to 14 year old children" %HOST www.yahooligans.com %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "World Lecture Hall: WWW for instructional use, a collection of course materials, from the University of Texas at Austin" %HOST www.utexas.edu %FILE world/instruction/index.html %CHECKED 03-Jul-94 %STAR # ----- Documents and Reports #HTTP "Multimedia in Education: consequences of using multimedia in education (current trends, exploring future chances), from the Research institute for psychology and media" %HOST www.uni-sb.de %FILE sonstige/mefis/em01.htm %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #FTP "Schools-Internet: Answers to Commonly Asked Primary and Secondary School Internet User Questions; this is a good introductory discussion of the use of the Internet in an educational setting, including school Internet connections, security, ethics, collaboration, and other resources; this document doesn't tell you everything you have to know, but it is a good starting point" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/fyi/fyi22.txt %CHECKED 19-Feb-94 #FTP "High school-Internet: Assessing the effect on high school teachers of direct and unrestricted access to the Internet--a case study of an east central Florida high school, by Michael Anthony Gallo" %HOST sci-ed.fit.edu %DIR pub/Internet/study/ %CHECKED 13-Dec-93 #HTTP "Pedagogical CMC: Online Report on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-mediated Communication, by Morten Flate Paulsen, Assistant Professor, The NKI Department of Distance Education, a framework of pedagogical CMC techniques and experiences reported in about 100 articles" %HOST www.hs.nki.no %FILE ~morten/cmcped.htm %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 # ----- Indexes #HTTP "Education-WWW VL: an extensive listing of world-wide web virtual library education sites; reasonably annotated, but not very selective and the organization lacks categorization (it is alphabetical); useful for searching on particular items of interest to educators" %HOST www.csu.edu.au %FILE education/all.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Education-Yahoo: Education section from Yahoo, contains a very wide selection of links--watch for the Yahoo sunglasses icon to separate the wheat from the chaff (sometimes) to find the most compelling sites; this index is good for overall look of what is out there with regard to Internet-based educational information" %HOST www.yahoo.com %DIR Education/ %CHECKED 24-Feb-95 #HTTP "Educational Technology--WWW VL: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library--Educational Technology, a listing of a wide variety of resources for educational technology, includes links to topics, announcements, educational virtual reality, courseware, software, and institutions and people" %HOST tecfa.unige.ch %FILE info-edu-comp.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "Education Technology-Communication: a long, unannotated list of the names of computer/communications organizations and resource centers, from the American Communication Association" %HOST www.uark.edu %FILE depts/comminfo/www/commed.html %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "WebCrawler education: WebCrawler select section on education, a list of some interesting resources for education; includes a selection of feature articles" %HOST www.webcrawler.com %FILE select/ed.new.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #SUB-SECTION Entertainment #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # The Web reflects the very human tendency to find a way to relax, be distracted, or to just have fun. I've selected a few of the major entertainment resources on the Web for this section. #HTTP "Entertainment Top: the top entertain information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/entertain.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Compass: navigate through many of the entertainment sites on the World Wide Web" %HOST www.surrface.com %DIR compass/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "ENN: Entertainment Network News, a large collection of entertainment news" %HOST www.slip.net %FILE ~scmetro/enn.htm %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SECTION Government #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # World governments are very eager to use online communication to improve their economies, educate their citizens, and disseminate government information. In this section, I've collected a range of information sources about how government is using online communication in their national policies and plans as well as examples of information delivered to citizens online. #SUB-SUB-SECTION Initiatives for information infrastructures # These government-sponsored initiatives and organizations to implement or support national or state information infrastructures. #HTTP "Canada: Industry Canada Ministry, Communications Development Directorate" %HOST info.ic.gc.ca %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Europe: European Council report on specific measures to be taken by the European Community and the Members States for information infrastructures" %HOST www.earn.net %FILE EC/bangemann.html %CHECKED 11-Jul-94 #HTTP "Europe/Info Market: I'M (Info Market)- Europe Home Page, information about Europe and the European electronic information market" %HOST www.echo.lu %CHECKED 01-Sep-94 #HTTP "Japan-MITI: Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, program for advanced information infrastructure" %HOST www.miti.go.jp %FILE index-e.html %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "Singapore-IT200: Information from the National Computing Board (NCB) of Singapore's Digital Media Centre" %HOST www.ncb.gov.sg %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #HTTP "USA-HPCC: the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications" %HOST www.hpcc.gov %CHECKED 1-Nov-93 #HTTP "USA-IITF: United States Information Infrastructure Task Force" %HOST iitf.doc.gov %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "USA-IISP: United States Information Infrastructure Standards Panel; facilitate development of standards critical to the National and Global Information Infrastructure (NII and GII)" %HOST www.ansi.org %DIR iisp/ %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "USA-NII DIIG: The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is a resource to facilitate the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII)" %HOST farnsworth.mit.edu %FILE diig.html %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "USA-NII Related: Related Efforts in the National Information Infrastructure" %HOST www.acl.lanl.gov %FILE sunrise/RelatedInfo/OtherProjects.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "USA-NII-XIWT: USA's National Information Infrastructure Cross-Industry Working Team, a coalition of industry to define requirements for a national information infrastructure" %HOST www.cnri.reston.va.us %PORT 3000 %FILE XIWT/public.html %CHECKED 18-Sep-94 #HTTP "USA-North Carolina: North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH)" %HOST www.ncih.net %CHECKED 18-Mar-95 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Information supplied by governments # Government-sponsored or government-related information, particularly dealing with CMC issues. # ------ Major Collections #HTTP "Government Top: the top government information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/gov.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Govt Docs: Government Documents Center, Government Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan" %HOST www.lib.umich.edu %FILE libhome/Documents.center/govweb.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "U.S. Govt: Information Sources list maintained by the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)" %HOST www.nttc.edu %FILE gov_res.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 # ------ Countries #HTTP "Canada: Open Government -- information about Canadian Federal government" %HOST canada.gc.ca %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "EU: European Union's EUROPA site, information about European Union's goals and policies" %HOST europa.eu.int %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Government-Galaxy: page from EINet's Galaxy showing a large collection of government information" %HOST www.einet.net %FILE galaxy/Government.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "GILS: Government Information Locator Service" %HOST info.er.usgs.gov %DIR gils/ %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Japan PM: Japan Prime Minister's official residence Web server" %HOST www.kantei.go.jp %CHECKED 02-Feb-95 #HTTP "UK CCTA: United Kingdom Government Centre for Information Systems" %HOST www.open.gov.uk %CHECKED 18-Nov-94 #HTTP "US Fedix: Federal Information Exchange, Inc., access to a wide variety of government data" %HOST www.fie.com %CHECKED 02-Aug-94 #HTTP "US Fedworld: a gateway to US. Government information operated by the Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS)" %HOST www.fedworld.gov %CHECKED 29-Oct-94 #HTTP "US GPO: United States Government Printing Office" %HOST www.access.gpo.gov %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "US NPR: United States National Performance Review" %HOST www.npr.gov %CHECKED 29-Oct-94 #HTTP "US Patents and Trademarks: includes Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure issues" %HOST www.uspto.gov %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 #HTTP "US House: United States House of Representatives" %HOST www.house.gov %CHECKED 19-Jan-95 #HTTP "US Senate: United States Senate" %HOST www.senate.gov %CHECKED 19-Apr-1996 #HTTP "US Thomas: United States Legislative Information" %HOST thomas.loc.gov %CHECKED 19-Jan-95 #HTTP "US White House: United States Executive Branch" %HOST www.whitehouse.gov %CHECKED 29-Oct-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Policy # These pointers relate to public policy issues or government-citizen interaction, or legal issues. #HTTP "CapWeb: Political issues, campaigns, publications, and a guide to the United States Congress (CapWeb)" %HOST www.capweb.net %CHECKED 08-Feb-1997 #HTTP "Democracy.Net: dedicated to exploring ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet" %HOST www.democracy.net %CHECKED 1-Sep-1997 #HTTP "Computer Tech Legal Net: Computer Technology Legal information resources" %HOST www.com %FILE mmm/mmmhome.html %CHECKED 13-May-95 #HTTP "Cryto: Encryption policy resource page; information and activisim to lobby for encryption policies" %HOST www.crypto.com %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Discovery Institute: a public policy think tank; has forum in Internet law and policy" %HOST www.discovery.org %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Govt Policy" %HOST www.nla.gov.au %FILE lis/govnii.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 #HTTP "ILPF: Internet Law and Policy Forum, addressing legal and policy issues of the Internet" %HOST www.ilpf.org %CHECKED 8-Feb-1997 #HTTP "ICTSP: The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Institute for Computer and Telecommunications Systems Policy" %HOST www.seas.gwu.edu %FILE seas/instctsp/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #EMAIL "Information Policy: Information Policy for Electronic Information Resources, by Mary Lou Goodyear" %ADR listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu %BODY GET GOODYEAR PRV4N6 %CHECKED 16-Jan-94 #HTTP "INTA: International Trademark Association" %HOST www.inta.org %DIR inta/ %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "International Trade: network resources for legal research and education" %HOST ananse.irv.uit.no %FILE trade_law/misc/objective.html %CHECKED 25-Nov-94 #HTTP "The Information Economy: a collection of documents that have to do with the economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property, and related issues, by Hal Varian" %HOST www.sims.berkeley.edu %DIR resources/infoecon/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 %STAR #FTP "Internet Policy: What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network?, by G. Cook" %HOST nic.merit.edu %FILE documents/rfc/rfc1527.txt %CHECKED 1-Dec-93 #HTTP "IP Policy OnRamp: a service by the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Information Technology (IT) Policy and Leadership, USA; information about information technology policy" %HOST www.itpolicy.gsa.gov %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "MIT-RPCP: MIT's Research Program on Communications Policy" %HOST farnsworth.mit.edu %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 #HTTP "Patent Law: frequently asked questions and answers on patent law" %HOST www.patents.com %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "PICS: Platform for Internet Content Selection: a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access" %HOST www.w3.org %DIR hypertext/WWW/PICS/ %CHECKED 15-Feb-1996 #HTTP "PPP: Political Participation Project, a research project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab designed to explore how interactive media can be used to facilitate political participation; web includes collection of political sources, a bibliography, directory of grassroots organizations, and publications" %HOST www.ai.mit.edu %FILE people/msb/ppp/home.html %CHECKED 01-Aug-1996 #HTTP "Telecom policy" %HOST www.ba.com %FILE sites.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-95 #HTTP "Voters Telecom Watch: monitoring important bills and alerting the public at crucial times in the life of a bill" %HOST www.vtw.org %UDPATED #GOPHER "Warren Gopher: a collection of electronic newsletters distributed by Jim Warren on the subjects of political action and government access through the use of computer communications" %HOST gopher.path.net %PORT 8102 %FILE 1 %CHECKED 28-Apr-94 #HTTP "WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), includes Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force" %HOST www.wipo.int %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #SUB-SECTION Information #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Information dissemination is one of the major functions of online communication. In this section, I've collected links to a variety of projects, research groups and resource lists which are devoted to information dissemination and retrieval over networks. #SUB-SUB-SECTION Dissemination and Retrieval #HTTP "ACM/SIGIR: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval" %HOST info.sigir.acm.org %DIR sigir/ %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "Agents, Intelligent: a collection of information about software information agents" %HOST retriever.cs.umbc.edu %DIR agents/ %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #HTTP "Addressing: Uniform Resource Identifiers/Locators/Names (URI, URL, URN)" %HOST www.w3.org %FILE hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "ArD: database of published articles in the field of information systems" %HOST www.zib-berlin.de %DIR People/mueller/GNA/ISG/Services/ArD/ %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "CAIT-WUSTL: Center for the Application of Information Technology, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis" %HOST www.cait.wustl.edu %FILE cait/intro.html %CHECKED 25-Nov-94 #EMAIL "Cataloging Internet Res: explores how to catalog electronic information, by Priscilla Caplan" %ADR listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu %BODY get caplan prv4n2 %CHECKED 11-Oct-93 #HTTP "CATRIONA: CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications" %HOST www.bubl.bath.ac.uk %FILE BUBL/catriona.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #FTP "CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access Technology, natural-language interface" %HOST debra.dgbt.doc.ca %DIR pub/chat/ %CHECKED 11-Feb-94 #HTTP "CIT: Center for Information Technology, a laboratory operated by Stanford University, the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form" %HOST logic.stanford.edu %FILE cit/cit.html %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #HTTP "CIIR-UMass: Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst" %HOST ciir.cs.umass.edu %CHECKED 05-Mar-94 #HTTP "CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments" %HOST www.cni.org %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands" %HOST www.cwi.nl %FILE default.html %CHECKED 04-Jul-94 #HTTP "CNIDR Web Page: Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page" %HOST cnidr.org %FILE welcome.html %CHECKED 13-Dec-93 #HTTP "Data Research: databases and information, some free (don't abuse free services)" %HOST www.dra.com %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #HTTP "DIMUND: Document Understanding Information and Resources" %HOST dimund.cfar.umd.edu %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "Doc Center: Document Center, a hard copy document delivery service for government and industry specifications and standards" %HOST doccenter.com %FILE doccenter/home.html %CHECKED 16-Nov-93 #HTTP "IDU: Information Design Unit" %HOSt www.idu.co.uk %FILE idu/index.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Info Provider: discussion of WWW and other servers from an information provider standpoint" %HOST www.w3.org %FILE hypertext/WWW/Provider/Overview.html %CHECKED 1-Apr-94 #HTTP "IIP: Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory" %HOST www.ai.mit.edu %FILE projects/iiip/home-page.html %CHECKED 31-Mar-95 #HTTP "IRLP: Internet Resource Location Project" %HOST www.cs.colorado.edu %FILE home/gc/cs/genbbb_wwww.html %CHECKED 1-Apr-94 #HTTP "IRIS-Brown: Brown University's Institute for Information Research and Scholarship" %HOST www.iris.brown.edu %DIR iris %CHECKED 31-Mar-94 #HTTP "IRTF: Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery (IRTF-RD)" %HOST rd.cs.colorado.edu %FILE ~schwartz/IRTF.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "IS Meta List: Information Systems Meta-List, sponsored by the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT)" %HOST www.cait.wustl.edu %FILE cait/infosys.html %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "ISI-USC: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI)" %HOST www.isi.edu %CHECKED 15-Mar-94 #HTTP "ISRI-UNLV: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas" %HOST www.isri.unlv.edu %CHECKED 05-Mar-94 #HTTP "ISS: Information Sharing System, A tool that enables transparent, model-based access to distributed, heterogeneou s databases. Developed by CERC, West Virginia University." %HOST www.cerc.wvu.edu %FILE dice/iss/index.html %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "ISWorld Net: information systems web, sponsored by the Edwin L. Cox School Management at Southern Methodist University" %HOST www.isworld.org %FILE isworld/isworldtext.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 %STAR #FTP "Library Special: Library special collections on the Internet" %HOST vm1.nodak.edu %FILE nnews/nnews.1993-10 %CHECKED 1-Nov-93 #HTTP "Lycos: a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW, using a finite memory model of the web to guide intelligent, directed searches for specific information needs" %HOST www.lycos.com %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #FTP "OCLC Research: Assessing Information on the Internet: Toward Providing Library Services for CMC" %HOST ftp.rsch.oclc.org %DIR pub/internet_resources_project/report/ %CHECKED 11-Feb-94 #HTTP "PCP: Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP)--the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy" %HOST pespmc1.vub.ac.be %FILE RELATED.html %CHECKED 25-Feb-94 #HTTP "Publishing: Advanced Publishing in the Web, by Terje Norderhaug" %HOST www.ifi.uio.no %FILE ~terjen/WWWauthoring/abstract.html %CHECKED 09-Apr-94 #HTTP "Quality: Quality and Standards of the Internet Information Resources" %HOST coombs.anu.edu.au %FILE SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "ResInfo: working toward a basic operational framework necessary to implement a globally distributed information system" %HOST www.hmc.edu %FILE ~jared/professional/resinfo/resinfo.html %CHECKED 12-Aug-94 #HTTP "SIFTER-UAB: Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Studies of Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources (SIFTER) Research Group" %HOST twinbrook.cis.uab.edu %PORT 70 %FILE AdPage.80 %CHECKED 25-Nov-94 #HTTP "SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language" %HOST www.sgmlopen.org %CHECKED 15-Dec-94 #HTTP "UWI: UnderWorld Industries, nodes that wish to share information with other UWI nodes" %HOST kzsu.stanford.edu %FILE uwi.html %CHECKED 06-Oct-95 #HTTP "Z39.50: Network Information Dissemination Standards" %HOST lcweb.loc.gov %DIR z3950/agency/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Library #HTTP "ALA: American Library Association" %HOST www.ala.org %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "ARL: Association of Research Libraries Web server" %HOST arl.cni.org %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "CARL: access to UnCover and other indexes" %HOST www.carl.org %FILE carl.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-95 #HTTP "Dialog: a service of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc." %HOST www.dialog.com %CHECKED 26-Jan-95 #FTP "Internet libraries: various Internet material for librarians" %HOST nic.funet.fi %DIR pub/doc/library/ #HTTP "IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users" %HOST www.ipl.org %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #TELNET "LaUNCpad: access various infomration services, from the University of North Carolina" %HOST launchpad.unc.edu %LOGIN launch #HTTP "LRL: Library Resources List, a variety of Internet resources for the library community, including reference resources, new net sites and search engines, government resources, library sites, and issues about libraries and national information infrastructure, compiled by Bob Bocher, Technology Consultant WI Dept. of Public Instruction, Division for Libraries." %HOST www.state.wi.us %FILE agencies/dpi/www/lib_res.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 %STAR #HTTP "Lib webs: Library Information Servers via WWW, by Thomas Dowling" %HOST sunsite.berkeley.edu %DIR Libweb/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "LEXIS-NEXIS: Legal and news information" %HOST www.lexis-nexis.com %CHECKED 26-Jan-1996 #HTTP "OCLC: Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit computer library service and research organization" %HOST www.oclc.org %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "Public Libraries: St. Joseph County (Indiana, USA) list of public libraries with Internet services" %HOST sjcpl.lib.in.us %FILE homepage/PublicLibraries/PublicLibraryServers.html %CHECKED 15-Dec-94 #HTTP "RLG: Research Libraries Group, Inc., a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning; includes access to Eureka (search system), RLIN (library support system), and Zephyr (Z39.50 services), database, citation files, Ariel document delivery" %HOST www-rlg.stanford.edu %FILE welcome.html %CHECKED 19-Aug-94 #HTTP "SLA: Special Libraries Association" %HOST www.sla.org %CHECKED 8-Feb-1997 #HTTP "US LOC: United States Library of Congress" %HOST www.loc.gov %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SECTION Multiple #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # There are many examples of online communication being used for multiple purposes. I've selected some collections which relate case studies of the excellent use of online communication. # #GOPHER "101 stories: Reprinted from 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education; The Joe Wyatt Challenge, Edited by Judith Boettcher. A Project of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT)" %HOST ivory.educom.edu %FILE 11/stories.101 %CHECKED 08-Sep-94 #GOPHER "FARNET stories: Federation of American Research Networks (FARNet) descriptions of 51 Reasons for a National Information Infrastructure (NII)" %HOST gopher.cni.org %FILE 11/cniftp/miscdocs/farnet %CHECKED 28-Jul-94 #HTTP "Success stories: Internet Reference Success Stories, collected by Karen G. Schneider" %HOST www.intac.com %FILE ~kgs/success/successcover.html %CHECKED 31-Mar-95 #SUB-SECTION Scholarship #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Scholars use online communication as a powerful way to keep in contact with each other, collaborate, and share information. In this section, I list major sites that are focused on scholarship, particularly scholarship conducted in online contexts. # #HTTP "CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship" %HOST cios.org %CHECKED 08-Feb-1997 #HTTP "CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, a project of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and EDUCOM to promote the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity" %HOST www.cni.org %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "IATH: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, an effort to bring Jefferson's educational ideas of exchange across disciplines and integrated living and learning" %HOST jefferson.village.virginia.edu %CHECKED 19-Feb-94 #HTTP "Scholarly Communications Project: of University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a project to pioneer electronic communication of scholarly materials" %HOST borg.lib.vt.edu %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #FTP "Scholarly Communication Reports: Quarterly Technical Reports" %HOST borg.lib.vt.edu %FILE pub/vpiej-l/reports %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #HTTP "Scholarly Electronic Forums: information on professional and academic discussion groups" %HOST www.oise.on.ca %FILE ~arojo/forums.html %CHECKED 01-Sep-95 #HTTP "Scholarly Societies: University of Waterloo Library maintains links to gophers and other servers of scholarly societies" %HOST www.lib.uwaterloo.ca %FILE society/overview.html %CHECKED 26-Jan-94 #FTP "Scholarly Comm paper/Kahin: Scholarly Communication in the Network Environment Issues of Principle, Policy, and Practice, by Brian Kahin" %HOST ftp.cni.org %FILE CNI/projects/Harvard.scp/kahin.txt %CHECKED 15-Mar-94 #FTP "Scholarly Comm/Libraries: Published by The Association of Research Libraries for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation" %HOST ftp.cni.org %DIR ARL/mellon/ %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #HTTP "Scholarly Communication study: University Libraries and Scholarly Communication, A Study Prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard H. Ekman, November 1992" %HOST www.lib.virginia.edu %FILE mellon/mellon.html %CHECKED 15-Apr-94 #FTP "Scholarly Publishing models: Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals A Background Paper and Review of the Issues" %HOST sunsite.unc.edu %FILE pub/docs/about-the-net/trln-copyright-paper %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #------------------------------------------------------------------------- #SECTION TECHNOLOGY #========================================================================= # The Internet represents one of the most complex technological constructions ever created. As a network of networks, it involves the interplay of many computing, data communications, and software technologies. These resources are starting points for learning more about these technologies. #SUB-SECTION Computing #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Computer science information is well-represented online. In this section, I list major sources of information for computing, computer science, high performance computing, and software information sources. # #HTTP "ACM: Association for Computing Machinery" %HOST www.acm.org %CHECKED 11-Feb-94 %STAR #HTTP "Computer Top: the top computer information resources on the Web" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/computer.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "CPU Center: central processing unit (CPU) information, includes press announcements, papers, machine information, by Tom Burd" %HOST infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu %DIR CIC/ %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "CS-MetaCenter: National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering" %HOST www.ncsa.uiuc.edu %FILE General/MetaCenter/MetaCenterHome.html %CHECKED 21-Nov-93 #HTTP "HPCC-NSE: High Performance Computing and Communication (USA) National Coordinating office, National Software Exchange" %HOST www.netlib.org %FILE nse/home.html %CHECKED 14-Oct-94 #HTTP "HPC-Southampton: University of Southampton High Performance Computing Centre" %HOST cs1.soton.ac.uk %CHECKED 22-Apr-94 #HTTP "HPCWire: The High-Performance Computing news and information service, covering workstations through supercomputers" %HOST hpcwire.ans.net %FILE HPCwire.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" %HOST www.ieee.org %CHECKED 02-Feb-95 #HTTP "Ohio Supercomputer: a state-funded computing resource, provides high-performance computing to scientists and engineers at Ohio colleges, universities, and companies" %HOST www.osc.edu %FILE welcome.html %CHECKED 15-Apr-94 #HTTP "NCSA-USA: National (USA) Center for Supercomputing Applications" %HOST www.ncsa.uiuc.edu %FILE General/NCSAHome.html %CHECKED 30-Mar-94 #HTTP "NMCCSE-USA: United States National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering" %HOST www.ncsa.uiuc.edu %FILE General/MetaCenter/MetaCenterHome.html %CHECKED 30-Mar-95 #HTTP "NPAC-Syracuse: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Home Page, at Syracuse University, New York" %HOST minerva.npac.syr.edu %FILE home.html #HTTP "Pitt SCC: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center" %HOST pscinfo.psc.edu %CHECKED 30-Mar-94 #HTTP "RICIS-Houston: Research Institute for Computing and Information Systems" %HOST rbse.jsc.nasa.gov %CHECKED 25-Feb-94 #HTTP "SDSC: San Diego Supercomputer Center" %HOST gopher.sdsc.edu %FILE Home.html %CHECKED 30-Mar-94 #HTTP "SEI-CMU: Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University" %HOST www.sei.cmu.edu %CHECKED 08-Sep-94 #HTTP "Software Top: the top archives of shareware and freeware on the Web" %HOST www.december.com %FILE web/top/software.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 %STAR #HTTP "WWW-VL Computing: the WWW Virtual Library entry for computing" %HOST src.doc.ic.ac.uk %FILE bySubject/Computing/Overview.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #SUB-SECTION Criticism #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #HTTP "Tech. Determinism: A resource page on technological determinism, by Dr. Daniel Chandler" %HOST www.aber.ac.uk %FILE ~dgc/tecdet.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Tech. Determism/CMCM: a special issue of Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine examining attitudes about the potenency of technology" %HOST www.december.com %FILE cmc/mag/1996/feb/toc.html %CHECKED 24-Feb-1996 #SUB-SECTION Developing #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #HTTP "NIMT-Ireland: National Institute for Management Technology, Ireland" %HOST www.nimt.rtc-cork.ie %FILE nimt.htm %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #HTTP "NIST-USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA" %HOST www.nist.gov %CHECKED 17-Nov-93 #HTTP "NSF-USA: National Science Foundation, USA" %HOST www.nsf.gov %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "NTTC-USA: National Technology Transfer Center, USA" %HOST iridium.nttc.edu %FILE nttc.html %CHECKED 11-Mar-94 #SUB-SECTION Human Interaction #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # These resources deal with the area of human-computer interaction (HCI). #HTTP "ACM/SIGCHI: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computers and Human Interaction" %HOST www.acm.org %DIR sigchi/ %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "HCIBIB: The HCI Bilbiography Project, references to literature on human-computer interaction, including hypertext/hypermedia" %HOST www.tu-graz.ac.at %FILE CHCIbib %CHECKED 07-Sep-94 #HTTP "HCI Index/deGraaff: Human-Computer Interaction Index" %HOST is.twi.tudelft.nl %DIR hci/ %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "HCI Launching Pad: Human-Computer Interaction resources and pointers, by Keith Instone" %HOST www.cs.bgsu.edu %DIR HCI/ %CHECKED 21-Jan-94 #HTTP "HCI Resources: information related to Human-Computer Interaction" %HOST www.ida.liu.se %DIR labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "HCS: Center for Human-Computer studies, at Uppsala University, Sweden" %HOST www.cmd.uu.se %CHECKED 25-Feb-94 #HTTP "HITL: Human Interface Technology Laboratory, the University of Washington, includes information on the Virtual Worlds Society and the Virtual Worlds Consortium" %HOST www.hitl.washington.edu %CHECKED 31-Mar-95 #HTTP "Ubicomp: Ubiquitous Computing--computing and communications available everywhere to help people communicate and get information, information from Mark Weiser of XEROX PARC" %HOST www.ubiq.com %FILE hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html %CHECKED 31-Mar-95 #SUB-SECTION Multimedia #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # The Web is used to deliver information in a wide range of data formats. The resources in this section cover the technical, research, and academic issues of multimedia. # #SUB-SUB-SECTION Audio # ------ Major Collections #HTTP "Audio WWW VL: Entry from WWW Virtual Library for Audio" %HOST www.comlab.ox.ac.uk %FILE archive/audio.html %CHECKED 23-Jun-95 %STAR # ------ Organizations and other information #HTTP "CERL: The CERL Sound Group (U of IL)" %HOST datura.cerl.uiuc.edu %CHECKED 17-Jan-94 #HTTP "Clips: Sites with audio clips" %HOST www.eecs.nwu.edu %FILE ~jmyers/other-sounds.html %CHECKED 15-Apr-94 #HTTP "CMC-Interpersonal-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between people, like Internet phones" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/cmc-interpersonal-audio.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "CMC-Group-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet between a group of people; audio conferencing" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/cmc-group-audio.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "CMC-Mass-audio: tools used on the Internet for distributing real-time sound over the Internet" %HOST www.december.com %FILE net/tools/cmc-mass-audio.html %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Internet Multicasting WWW: Home page for the Internet Multicasting Service " %HOST www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil %FILE radio/radio.html %CHECKED 1-Dec-93 #HTTP "IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive" %HOST www.iuma.com %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface" %HOST www.eeb.ele.tue.nl %FILE midi/index.html %CHECKED 05-Mar-94 #FTP "Multicast Backbone: live audio and video multicast virtual network on top of Internet" %HOST venera.isi.edu %FILE mbone/faq.txt %CHECKED 17-Oct-93 #HTTP "Music Resources: a collection of information about musicians, groups, compusers, performance, research, genres, and journals and magazines about music; extensive collection of links organized into categories" %HOST www.music.indiana.edu %DIR music_resources/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Mbone FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE)" %HOST www.mediadesign.co.at %FILE newmedia/more/mbone-faq.html %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Graphics #HTTP "ACM/SIGGRAPH: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics" %HOST www.siggraph.org %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "CGU-Manchester: The Computer Graphics Unit - Research at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom" %HOST info.mcc.ac.uk %FILE CGU/CGU-research.html %CHECKED 21-Jan-94 #HTTP "GVU-GA Tech: Georgia Institute of Technology's Graphics, Visualization, + Usability Center" %HOST www.cc.gatech.edu %FILE gvu/gvutop.html %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "Scientific Visualization: Annotated Scientific Visualization URL Bibliography" %HOST www.nas.nasa.gov %FILE RNR/Visualization/annotatedURLs.html %CHECKED 22-Jan-94 #HTTP "Thant's: animation index, descriptions of computer-generated animations" %HOST mambo.ucsc.edu %FILE psl/thant/thant.html %CHECKED 08-Jul-94 #SUB-SUB-SECTION Multi # ------ Major Collections #HTTP "ACM/SIGMM: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Multimedia Systems" %HOST www.acm.org %DIR sigmm/ %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Digital Reality: produced by Gemini Consulting's Communications, Computers, Consumer Electronics and Content (C4) Practice. It is designed as a resource and community for people interested in C4 industries and how digitization, connectivity and globalization are changing the way businesses work. " %HOST digital.gemconsult.com %CHECKED 8-Feb-1997 #HTTP "Mulimedia Collection: The Vancouver (Candada) Film School's collection of links to technologies about film, multimedia, animation, and editing" %HOST www.multimedia.edu %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Multimedia Index: Multimedia Information Sources, by Simon Gibbs; an extensive, carefully selected list of multimedia information sources; frequently updated and organized by category; covers links on just about everything having to do with multimedia" %HOST viswiz.gmd.de %DIR MultimediaInfo/ %CHECKED 20-Jan-95 # ------ Organizations and other information #HTTP "CDM-NYU: New York University (NYU) Center for Digital Multimedia, a New York State Center for Advanced Technology, sponsored by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation" %HOST found.cs.nyu.edu %CHECKED 18-Sep-94 #HTTP "ICME-RPI: The International Center for Multimedia in Education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York" %HOST ciue.rpi.edu %DIR icme/ %CHECKED 2-Dec-1996 #HTTP "IMA: International Multimedia Association" %HOST www.ima.org %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "Macromedia: multimedia information and design" %HOST www.macromedia.com %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "MCRL-Ottawa: Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa" %HOST www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca %CHECKED 31-Jul-1996 #HTTP "Media Lab-MIT: MIT Media Lab Home Page" %HOST www.media.mit.edu %CHECKED 24-Jun-95 #HTTP "MICE: Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers" %HOST www.cs.ucl.ac.uk %FILE mice/ %CHECKED 20-Jan-95 #HTTP "Multimedia formats: Multimedia file formats on the Internet, by Allison Zhang" %HOST www.lib.rochester.edu %FILE multimed/contents.htm %CHECKED 1-Sep-1997 #HTTP "Multimedia Lab BU: Multimedia Laboratory at Boston University" %HOST hulk.bu.edu %CHECKED 05-Oct-1996 #HTTP "Multimediator: guide to multimedia associations, books, magazines, Internet resources, and employment. Multimediator also features original articles about the art and business of multimedia and the Canadian Developers Directory, the Internet's most extensive list of Canadian companies developing interactive multimedia content" %HOST www.ideaguy.com %CHECKED 20-Oct-95 #HTTP "Rob's Multimedia Lab: a collection of archives and informaiton about graphics, sound, and movies on the Net" %HOST www.acm.uiuc.edu %PORT 80 %FILE rml %CHECKED 25-Mar-94 %STAR #SUB-SUB-SECTION Hypermedia #HTTP "ACM/SIGLINK: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Hypert