Browsing Info/Tips

Internet Subject Directories

• Yahoo is an Internet Directory/Index maintained by David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford. It currently features over 32,000 entries. In addition to browsing, the Yahoo catalog allows you to search its collection, add new resources, and has its own "What's New" and "Random Link" features.
  http://www.yahoo.com/
• WWW Virtual Library is a list of WWW documents compiled from requests sent to www-request@info.cern.ch and other sites. Exploring the catalog of resources by Library of Congress subject headings (experimental) and geographic area are also options.
  http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/ bySubject/Overview.html
• The Argus Clearinghouse, from the University of Michigan's University Library and School of Information and Library Studies, is a collection of subject-oriented guides to the Internet covering subjects from neuroscience to theater.
  http://www.clearinghous.net/
• Michigan Electronic Library from the MLink Project, a public library focused gopher maintained at the University of Michigan. Access to reference links of all sorts from science to entertainment.
  http://mel.lib.mi.us/

Internet Search Engines

• The Lycos Home Page is a search engine that allows you to search on document titles and content. The index searches document title, headings, links, and keywords it locates in these WWW documents. I find it has more scientific and technical information than other engines
  http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
• Excite Another search engine started by undergraduate students at Stanford University.
  http://www.excite.com
• Alta Vista searches the full text of Web documents. Can do simple or complex searches. Very comprehensive.
  http://www.altavista.digital.com/
• Magellan An online guide and search engine that includes original editioral content, a directory of rated and reviewed Internet sites and a database of yet-to-be-reviewed sites.
  http://www.mckinley.com/
• WebCrawler also allows search by document title and content. Originally part of the WebCrawler project at the University of Washington, it is now owned by America Online.
  http://webcrawler.com/

Internet Guides and Technical Information

• An Introduction to the World Wide Web, an Internet course from the University of Sydney, Australia.
  http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/course/
• World Wide Web FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  http://www.boutell.com/faq/www_faq.html
• Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace, by Kevin Hughes, Enterprise Integration Technologies.
  http://www.eit.com:80/web/www.guide/guide.toc.html
• Free Online Dictionary of Computing, "a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing. Entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net."
  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/

Interesting Reading

• What is the World Wide Web.
• Where did it all start?
• The World Wide Web History Project
• Internet Timeline
• World Wide Web FAQ (FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions)
• The Browser FAQ
• Browser Watch. All you ever wanted to know about browsers
• Internet Etiquette