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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.

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.

• Motivation
  • Gold in Networks!: a description of gold nuggets in the network, by J. Martin (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi10.txt)
• Overviews
  • GlobalCenter Tour: A tour of the Internet from Global Village Communications (http://www.globalvillage.com/gcweb/tour.html)
  • Hitchikers Guide: describes the Internet (circa September 1989), by Ed Krol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1118.txt)
  • What is the Internet?: by Krol and Hoffman (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi20.txt)
  • Xerox Video: An Overview of the Internet and World-Wide Web, by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/hypertext/wwwvideo/wwwvideo.html)
• Facts
  • Internet Index: The Internet Index, a list of interesting facts about the Internet [Inspired by `Harper's Index'], by Win Treese (http://www.openmarket.com/intindex/)
  • New User's Questions: answers questions commonly asked by new users, by Malkin and Marine (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi4.txt)
• History
  • 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. (http://www.archive.org)
  • Internet birthday: happy 25th, Internet (http://www.amdahl.com/internet/events/inet25.html)
  • Internet History/ISOC: Internet Society's collection of Internet history (http://www.isoc.org/internet-history)
  • Internet Timeline: events in the history of the Internet by Robert H'obbes' Zakon (http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html)
  • Netizen Anthology: The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net--an anthology, Ronda Hauben, Michael Hauben (http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html)

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.

• NICs = Network Information Centers
  • Alldomains.com: domain name information and registration, includes links to regional and country Network Information Centers (http://www.alldomains.com)
  • 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 (http://www.internic.net)
• 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.

  • BCP: Best Current Practices, a sub-series of RFCs about topics which relate to the Internet (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/bcp/)
  • IESG: the meeting minutes of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/iesg/)
  • FYI: For Your Information-sub-series of RFCs about topics which relate to the Internet; good sources of information for beginner or training information (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/)
  • Internet Docs: Internet Documentation (RFC's, FYI's, etc.) from InterNIC (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html)
  • Internet Drafts: draft documents to be submitted ultimately to the Internet Activities Board to be as RFCs (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/internet-drafts/)
  • Internet Drafts Index: a list of Internet drafts with a short synopsis of each; provided by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) (http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/1id-abstracts.html)
  • RFC: Request for Comments about topics which relate to the Internet (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/)
  • RFC repositories: repositories where RFCs are located (ftp://isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-retrieval.txt)
  • RFC Index: listing of Internet Request For Comments (RFC) files with a searchable index (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg1intdoc.html)
  • RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues.: mail rfc-info@isi.edu Body: "help: ways_to_get_rfcs"
  • STD: Internet Standards, sub-series of notes within the RFC series which document Internet standards (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/std/)

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.

• Collections
  • CBL: Computer-Based Learning Unit, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom (http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk)
  • IETF/TERENA: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Training Materials Catalogue; a reviewed collection of materials for network training (http://www.trainmat.ietf.org)
  • 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. (http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html)
  • ITTI: Information Technology Training Initiative, a United Kingdom-wide initiative to provide training materials about or using Information Technology (http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/ITTI/ITTI.html)
  • 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. (http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/HomePage)
  • Netskills: a United Kingdom-wide effort to collect electronic training and educational information (http://www.netskills.ac.uk)
  • 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 (http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/nocall/home.html)
• Resources
  • 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 (http://www.cais.com/makulow/t3.html)
• Exploring
  • Sherlock: The Internet Consulting Detective; mysteries of information gathering on the Internet solved (http://www.intermediacy.com/sherlock/)
• Courses
  • BKC2SKOL: A New Class on the Net For Librarians with little or no Net Experience (http://web.csd.sc.edu/bck2skol/fall/fall.html)
  • CMC Courses: a directory of courses in CMC (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/courses.html)
  • CMC teaching social issues: Challenges, Ideas, and Resources, by Tom Jewett and Rob Kling (http://www.engr.csulb.edu/~jewett/teach/teach.html)
  • Compass in Cyberspace: Internet Training from John S. Makulowich (http://www.clark.net/pub/journalism/brochure.html)
  • Courses/info tech: courses related to social implications of information technology, list by Meng Weng Wong (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/netsurf/otherclasses.html)
  • Internet Resource: Internet Resource Discovery, Organization, and Design, by Lou Rosenfeld and Dr. Joe Janes, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan (http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/60694.html)
  • Intro/Internet: one of several prototype classes and texts sponsored through the Globewide Network Academy (http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/text/internet/index.html)
  • Netsurf course: by Meng Weng Wong, covers social implications of information technologies (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mengwong/netsurf/)
  • 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. (http://www.interlabs.bradley.edu/cyber_soc/spring_1996/)
• Tutorials for specific applications
  • Competencies: Competencies for Electronic Information Services, by John Corbin: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET CORBIN PRV4N6"
  • Discussion help: The art of getting help--guidelines for seeking help in discussion groups: mail rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: archive send courtesy
  • 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 (http://www.december.com/net/tools/)
  • Unix Help: Nova University's Unixhelp for users (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/UNIXhelp/TOP_.html)

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.

• Tools
  • 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 (http://www.browserwatch.com)
  • Internet Tools/EARN HTML: European Academic Research Network Association Guide to Network Resources Tools in HTML (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/notice.html)
  • Internet Tools/December HTML: HTML (segmented) version of a list summarizing Internet tools and computer-mediated communication forums, by John December (http://www.december.com/net/tools/)
• Guides
  • De Presno Guide: The Online World by Odd de Presno (http://login.eunet.no/~presno/index.html)
  • EFF Guide: EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eegttitop.html)
  • Email 101: describes how to use email as well as other Internet features, by John Goodwin (ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext93/email025.txt)
  • Email/access: Accessing The Internet By E-Mail, by `Doctor Bob' Rankin: mail mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu Body: "send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email"
  • Entering/WWW: Kevin Hughes's guide to the web (http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/)
  • 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 (http://www.imagescape.com/helpweb)
  • 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 (http://www.december.com/web/text/)
  • Learn the Net: a comprehensive and easy to use Internet resource guide (http://www.learnthenet.com)
  • Zen/Art of Internet: Zen and the Art of the Internet (1st edition, January 1992), by Brendan Kehoe; the first book about the Internet (ftp://ftp.csn.org/pub/net/zen/)
  • Zen: Zen and the Art of the Internet (1st edition), by Brendan Kehoe, in HTML (http://sundance.cso.uiuc.edu/Publications/Other/Zen/zen-1.0_toc.html)
• Collections
  • Gopher Jewels: Internet Cyberspace related gophers (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/internet.html)
  • Internet-Yahoo: pointers to the subject classification Computers-Internet (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet/)
  • Naval Research Lab: NRL Network Research Navigator, strong on technical aspects of networking (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil)
• Specialized guides or collections of general interest
  • Savetz Stuff: Kevin Savetz's Page o' Stuff, Internet-related resources and lists by Kevin Savetz (http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/savetz.html)
• Navigators
  • Hytelnet: assists users in reaching Internet libraries, Free-nets, CWISs, BBSs, and other information sites by telnet (telnet://hytelnet@access.usask.ca) Login as : hytelnet
  • Hytelnet web: (http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/)
  • Inter-Links: Internet resources, information, links, from Nova Southeastern University, in Ft. Lauderdale Florida (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/start.html)
  • Netlink: connects you with a wide variety of services, from Washington and Lee University (http://netlink.wlu.edu:1020)

Searching

This section gives you resources to help you find specific information online.

• 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

  • Cool Central: the site that rates the sites that rate the sites; I rate this site highly (http://www.coolcentral.com)

    -- Notable individual sites with "what's new" information.

  • 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 (http://www.mid.net/NET/)
  • Netsurfer Digest: a e-zine covering what is happing in Internet technology and Web sites (http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/)
  • Scout Report: a weekly publication of Net Scout Services to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet (http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/)
  • What's New/Too: A listing of new resources on the Web (http://newtoo.manifest.com/WhatsNewToo/search.html)
  • Yahoo New: What's New on Yahoo Hierarchical Hotlist (http://www.yahoo.com/new/)
• 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.

  • XXX-MOVED-FIX Awesome List: a list of useful resources, by John Makulowich (http://www.awesomelist.com)
  • CMC resources: resources related to the study of Computer-Mediated Communication, from the CMC Studies Center (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html)
  • Hotsheet: a no-frills quick-access page to a variety of resources (http://www.tstimpreso.com/hotsheet/)
  • 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 (http://www.100hot.com)
  • 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 (http://www.itcs.com/topten/)
  • Yanoff List: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject (http://www.spectracom.com/islist/)
• 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

  • December Top 5 Subjects: the top five Web subject resources available, from December Communications (http://www.december.com/web/top/subject.html)
  • Yahoo WWW Directories: This is Yahoo's subcategory on WWW directories; includes links to subject-oriented directories on the Web (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_Web/Directories/)

    ------ Subject Trees

  • A2Z: descriptions of most popularly linked sites in the Lycos database arranged by subjects (http://a2z.lycos.com)
  • 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 (http://www.clearinghouse.net)
  • 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 (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/)
  • Galaxy: a service of EINet, a collection of information, searchable via index or by topic trees (http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html)
  • Gopher Jewels: a collection of subject-oriented gophers (http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html)
  • 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 (http://lib-www.ucr.edu)
  • InterNIC Dir of Dirs: InterNIC's Directory of Directories, subject-oriented listing of registered Internet resources and services (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dsdirofdirs.html)
  • IWT Narrative: Internet Web Text's narrative about subject-oriented searching (http://www.december.com/web/text/nar-subject.html)
  • Magellan McKinley Directory: includes star ratings for resources (http://www.mckinley.com)
  • Point Communications: a guide to Web resources with ratings (http://www.pointcom.com)
  • Starting Point: a subject-breakdown of the Net (http://www.stpt.com)
  • Study Carrels: Subject and Discipline-Specific Internet Resources, from North Carolina State University Library (http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/disciplines/index.html)
  • 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 (http://www.december.com/web/top.html)
  • USENET Periodic Postings: list of Usenet periodic postings (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/)
  • USENET repository: collection of FAQ's and files from Usenet newsgroups (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/)
  • USENET news.answers: a hypertext presentation of the answer lists posted in the news.answers newsgroup (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/)
  • 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 (http://www.xplore.com)
  • Yahoo: Yet Another Hierarchically Odiferous Oracle, an extendible collection of subjects (http://www.yahoo.com)
  • Yanoff: Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections listing of resources by subject (http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html)
  • WebCrawler Select: selected sites in a range of subject areas (http://www.webcrawler.com)
  • WWW VL: World Wide Web Virtual Library, a large hypertext collection of information organized by subject (http://www.w3.org/vl/)
  • WWW VL/LOC: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library viewed as US Library of Congress Classification (http://www.w3.org/vl/LibraryOfCongress.html)
• 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

  • All-in-one: a search page which combines forms-based search tools from a wide variety of subjects, classified by category
  • December Top 5 Keywords: the top five Web keyword searching resources available, from December Communications (http://www.december.com/web/top/keyword.html)

    ------ Keyword Searching Resources

  • Accufind: searches infobases, news, books, and the Internet (http://nln.com)
  • AIRSII: Arachnae Information Retreival System II; (http://www.arachnae.com/UofT.html)
  • ALIWEB: Archie-Like Indexing for the Web, by Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/aliweb/doc/aliweb.html)
  • Alta Vista: Search the Web or Usenet for keywords. Includes advanced query form. (http://www.altavista.digital.com)
  • Apollo: search for services, retailers and classifieds (http://apollo.co.uk)
  • Archieplex: Archie via Web--access archie servers (search ftp sites) via the web (http://web.nexor.co.uk/archie.html)
  • Botspot: History of the Net always included Bots and they have been successfully utilized with human computer interaction starting with Eliza in 1966 (http://www.botspot.com)
  • CUSI: configurable unified search interface; a forms-based interface into many indices, engines, and Web Spider databases (forerunner is SUSI), by Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/cusi/doc/list.html)
  • Cyber411: an integrated 'parallel' search engine (http://www.cyber411.com/search/)
  • Dejanews: search Usenet news articles (http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnquery.html)
  • Discussion groups: search a list of discussion groups, Bitnet and Internet interest groups (Dartmouth list) (http://a/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists)
  • Excite: allows you to search the Web or Usent by keyword or concept (http://www.excite.com)
  • External info: collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW (http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/cgi-bin/local/nph-susi1.pl)
  • Gopher Jewels Search: Search the Gopher Jewels (a collection of subject-oriented gophers) (http://galaxy.einet.net/gopher/gopher.html)
  • HotBot: Wired's entry into the keyword search business; 'cool' graphics; klunky interface; no filtering make this HotBot pretty cool (http://www.hotbot.com)
  • Hytelnet Web search: search all Hytelnet resource entries, via a web form, from Galaxy (http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/HYTELNET.html)
  • Infoseek: a keyword searching service ($) over WWW pages, Usenet, computer magazines, newspaper newsires, press releases, company profiles, moview reviews, technical support databases (http://www.infoseek.com)
  • Internet Sleuth: collected keyword search services (http://www.isleuth.com)
  • Navigate.net: keyword search of the Web, includes options for title, description, keywords, and URL (http://www.navigate.net)
  • NlightN: a database of databases, news, and Internet (http://www.nlightn.com)
  • Open Text Index: search the web for a word or phrase (http://opentext.uunet.ca:8080/omw.html)
  • Reference.com: provides keyword search of Usenet news (http://www.reference.com)
  • SavvySearch: Parallel Internet Query Engine (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html)
  • Uncover: index to thousands of periodicals (http://www.carl.org/uncover/unchome.html)
  • 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 (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog)
  • Web publishers: keyword search of Web-related resources and discussion (http://www.verity.com/vlibsearch.html)
  • 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 (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html)
  • 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 (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-tools-spiders.html)
  • Web Spiders: Wanderers, Spiders and Robots; includes list of known robots/spiders, guidelines, standard for robot exclusion, by Martijn Koster (http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html)
• 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 Sites list: list of Internet sites accepting anonymous ftp, maintained by Perry Rovers (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/)
  • FTP Sites Web: Web interface to Perry Rover's FTP site monster list (http://www.info.net/Public/ftp-list.html)
  • Gopher Sites: list of all gophers (long) (ftp://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/pub/lawlib/all.gophers.links)
  • Hytelnet/WWW: access to Hytelnet by Peter Scott (http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/)
  • WWW Servers/list: Wandex's list of WWW sites (http://www.netgen.com/cgi/wandex)
  • WWW Servers/geo: a long list of registered WWW servers listed geographically by continent and country (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html)
  • WWW Sites(CityLink): state and city web sites (http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/)
  • WWW Sites(Virtual Tourist): a geographic map to aid in locating Web sites and other resources (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap)
  • Web Sites(City Net): explore and browse resources by geography (continent, region, country, city) (http://www.city.net)
• 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.

  • Ahoy: integrated tool for finding personal home pages, using OKRA, WhoWhere?, and Internet Address Finder; institutional database from Yahoo! (http://ahoy.cs.washington.edu:6060)
  • 555-1212: look up area codes, country codes, email addresses, phone numbers and web sites by area code (http://www.555-1212.com)
  • ATT 800: American Telephone and Telegraph Toll Free Directory (http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/)
  • BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings (http://www.bigbook.com)
  • BigFoot: search for people by name in a dabase of email addresses (http://www.bigfoot.com)
  • BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States (http://www.bigyellow.com)
  • ClassMates: find high school alumni and friends; upgraded membership requires a fee (http://www.classmates.com)
  • Directory services: a collection of white pages servers to look up people (gopher://sipb.mit.edu/1B%3aInternet%20whois%20servers)
  • Four11: Directory Services, a free and easy-to-use directory of online users and their e-mail addresses, from Four11 Directory Services (SLED) (http://www.four11.com)
  • Global Yellow Pages: phone directories from around the world (http://www.globalyp.com/world.htm)
  • Global X.500: gateway to directory services provided by many organizations (http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspgx500.html)
  • GTE Superpages: interactive yellow pages from GTE (http://yp.gte.net)
  • Home Pages/directories: a collection of personal home pages lists and directories (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/culture-people-lists.html)
  • International Directories: a collection of white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web for many countries in the world (http://www.infobel.be/infobel/infobelworld.html)
  • IAF: Internet Address Finder, a comprehensive e-mail white pages on the Internet (http://www.iaf.net)
  • InfoSpace: a directory of businesses, phones, yellow, blue, and white pages for US, Canda, and other countries; integration with mapping service (http://www.infospace.com)
  • Knowbot: provides a uniform user interface to heterogeneous remote information services (Internic Point of contacts, MCImail, x500 databases, finger, nwhois, etc.) (telnet://info.cnri.reston.va.us:185)
  • Lookup!: searching for email based on a database (http://www.lookup.com/search.html)
  • Lycos People Find: you can look up a person to find their address and phone number (http://www.lycos.com/pplfndr.html)
  • Metroscope: metropolitan area Web sites (http://www.metroscope.com)
  • Netfind: a simple Internet `white pages' user directory (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-utilities-netfind.html)
  • Netpages: a phone-book style directory for the Internet, from Aldea Communications, Inc. (http://www.aldea.com/wwwindex.html)
  • OKRA: a directory of people on the Net; search by name, keyword, organization, or keyword; you can register your entry (http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/)
  • 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 (http://www.peoplelink.com)
  • SearchAmerica: searches databases for residential and business data; includes directory assistances and searching by name, address, or phone number; requires registration (http://www.searchamerica.com)
  • Searching for people: a collection of resources to help you locate a specific person on the net (gopher://yaleinfo.yale.edu:7700/11/Internet-People)
  • 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) (http://www.switchboard.com)
  • US West Yellow Pages: (http://yp.uswest.com)
  • US West White Pages: (http://usw.four11.com)
  • Usenet: find people based on their Usenet posts (http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu)
  • 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 (http://www.whowhere.com)
  • Zip2: search for businesses by category, business name, city, by map area, or by distance from any location (http://www.zip2.com)

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

• Lookup Top: white and yellow pages, a dictionary, maps, and weather forecasts (http://www.december.com/web/top/lookup.html)

  -- Selected specific directories

• American Universities: (http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html)
• BigBook: directory of businesses, including maps, and user ratings (http://www.bigbook.com)
• BigYellow: online Yellow Pages and shopping directory containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of over 16 million businesses across the United States (http://www.bigyellow.com)
• Canadian Universities/Universites Canadiennes: (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~credmond/univ.html)
• Chambers of Commerce: (http://www.chamber-of-commerce.com)
• Community Colleges: (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/)
• Community Nets: Community Networks via Free-Net(r) and Web Sites (http://freenet.victoria.bc.ca/freenets.html)
• Electronic Conferences: Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, by Diane K. Kovacs (http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS/)
• Electronic Journals/ARL: Association of Research Libraries Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters (http://arl.cni.org/scomm/edir/)
• EZines List: summary of electronic zines by John Labovitz (http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/)
• Ezines Site: zine.net, a guide to independent publishing (http://www.zine.net)
• Finding Lists: how to find LISTSERV lists: mail listserv@vm1.nodak.edu Body: "get NEW-LIST wouters"
• Internet Consultants: CommerceNet's directory of Internet consultants (products and services) (http://www.commerce.net:8000/directories/consultants/consultants.html)
• Interest Groups List: The Lists of Lists, a listing of special interest group mailing lists available on the Interne (ftp://sri.com/netinfo/interest-groups.txt)
• Japanese: key information sources on Japan currently available over the Internet (http://fuji.stanford.edu/XGUIDE/)
• Library Access Script: a script to login to online card catalogs (ftp://sonoma.edu/pub/libs.tar)
• Liszt: directory of e-mail discussion groups (http://www.liszt.com)
• Net Orgs: Outposts on the Electronic Frontier, International, Groups Supporting the Online Community (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/net-community/orgs-list)
• Nonprofits: Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet, by Ellen Spertus (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/non.html)
• PAML: Publicly Available Mailing Lists, a list of mailing lists available primarily through the Internet and the UUCP network, by Stephanie da Silva (http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml)
• Patents: patent searching by class/subclass, by Gregory Aharonian (http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html)
• People: lists a variety of services to lookup or locate people or organizations (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-searching-people.html)
• Private Schools: (http://www.petersons.com/features/viewbook.html)
• Publisher's Catalogs: (http://www.lights.com/publisher/)
• Reference-IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users (http://www.ipl.org)
• Toll-free: (http://www.tollfree.dir.att.net)
• 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 (http://www.december.com/web/top.html)
• UNCAT: The electronic catalog of uncataloged titles (businesses, nonprofit groups, trade associations, museums and self-published authors), from Sapphire Press (http://www.sapphire.com/UNCAT/)
• US Universities and Community Colleges: (http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/)
• Web Servers: geographical directory of WWW Information Services (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap)
• World primary schools: You can link to K-12 servers by state, country, or special category. (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html)
• 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. (http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html)

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.

• Anonymous post: : mail anonymus+ping@tygra.michigan.com Body: "help"
• Anonymous post: : mail help@anon.penet.fi Body: "help"
• Anonymous remail: : mail remail@tamsun.tamu.edu Subject: remail help
• BITFTP: obtain files via anonymous ftp on Bitnet: mail Bitftp@PUCC.Princeton.edu Body: "help"
• Correct Time/NBS: tells National Bureau of Standards correct time (telnet://india.colorado.edu:13)
• Domain Name Lookup: translate domain names to numeric IP address (telnet://lookup@130.59.1.40) Login as : lookup
• Email FTP: get files at anonymous ftp sites via email.: mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Body: "help"
• Email Gopher: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@ncc.go.jp Body: "help"
• Email Gopher: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@calvin.edu Body: "help"
• Email WWW: www URL); URL = Uniform resource locator (body: mail listproc@www0.cern.ch Body: "help"
• Email Usenet: post to newsgroup via email: mail hierarchy-group-name@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Your Subject Body: "Your Contents"
• FAXNET: FAX's via email ($): mail info@awa.com Body: "help"
• FAX FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet?, by Kevin Savetz (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/fax-faq)
• HTML Validation: a service to help you check the syntax of your HTML documents (http://www.webtechs.com/html-val-svc/)
• IP address resolver: given a site name, obtain its numerical IP address: mail resolve@widener.edu Body: "site SITE NAME"
• Mail name server: gives email information about many email names (e.g. IP address given name): mail dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Body: "help"
• NeverForget: a free email reminder service (http://www.neverforget.com)
• RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues.: mail rfc-info@isi.edu Body: "help: ways_to_get_rfcs"