Retired links to Useful General Information pages
(
Intro). Last updated December 6, 1996:
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The US budget
worth a look.
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NIC
Internet directory, database, registration, and support services.
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Montery Bay Tide Information
text for 1995 only.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
quite useful.
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Experimental Stock Market Data
from MIT - includes performance charts for many stocks.
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World Birthday Web (WBW)
birthday database - anyone can be listed.
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Computer Jargon file Searchable and still being updated
(7/95).
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Usenet URLs
the "Green Eggs" report. Useful automated list - check it
out!
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Best demo pages from Time Inc., pretty good.
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Roget's Thesaurus really, give it a try...
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Japanese/English Dictionary
"Jeffery's."
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International Currency Converter
convert any currency to any other.
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HTML Document Test
page from LLNL. Very useful.
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AT&T 800 Directory on the Internet
Look up 800 numbers by name or number!.
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WWW Information
Lot's of useful URLs and an HTML syntax
checker!.
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Sensitive Map
Tutorial from NCSA.
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Time zone conversion page
no guarantees (e.g. may not deal with daylight savings time)
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Internet Fax service
Seemed to work even in its "Beta" state (7/10/94). Now 2/96
improved but still free...
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WebFaX Retrieval service
fetch a Web page from a FAX telephone.
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The Periodic Table
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Dictionaries various.
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Library of Congress (U.S.)
Lots (!) of material.
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Map Viewer
from Xerox PARC - HOT!
way to look at the world geographically.
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Views of the Solar System
educational tour from Los Alamos.
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Edupage Newsletter
Web page
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List of USENET FAQs
from Ohio State
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ASCII characters
to see how they print and to cut and paste.
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Current Weather Maps/Movies
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NCSA Mosaic
and their
What's New page, Watch out, it's Busy!
- The
World Wide Web "WWW"
from the W3 Consortium.
- HTML
starting point (W3 Consortium)
- Extremely brief HTML
Overview Sante Fe.
- Image Map
Tutorial from
NCSA.
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Guide to the WWW Nice! Long! Worth a look.
Somewhat dated.
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WWW Guide
new from EIT
and Kevin Hughes (same author as above).
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Bay Area Transit Information
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PGP
Pretty Good Privacy home page.
- Useful
MBONE information, the
JIPS Mbone page and the
"mr" gateway, and
MBone Agenda.
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HTML Primer from NCSA
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About HTTP from the W3 Consortium.
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URL primer from NCSA
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University of Stuttgart phone book
- InterNIC Mostly Gopher information
about the Internet.
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Gopher list of phone books
- LLNL "CSO" phone books from
gopher and
forms.
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Ecash for X-Windows Help from digicash
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WWW spiders, robots, etc. from nexor.co.uk
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