If you're starting right now to surf the "World Wide Web" facilities and you need to learn how to build your own HTML WWW document
this is a really useful guide!
CUI W3 Catalog The CUI W3 is a useful searchable interface to several manually maintained Internet catalogs. They come courtesy of the University of Geneva.
EINet Galaxy EINet Galaxy is one of the most exhaustive directories of Internet resources. It's fully searchable, too.
The Global Network Navigator (GNN) O'Reilly and Associates provides access to the Whole Internet Catalog, an on-line marketplace, and several special-interest newsletters
Infomine This homepage from the University of California, Riverside, provides a good collection oflinks to federal government sites.
InfoSeek InfoSeek is a subscription search tool ($9.95 per month) that yields highly accurate results to plain English queries. The fee is quite reasonable in the light of the highlyfocused search results.
Internet Town Hall The TownHall is a service of the Internet Multicasting Service. It's a good jumping-off point to general resources all around the Web.
InterNIC Directory & Database Services This directory contains huge searchable databases of Internet resources, provided by AT&T, General Atomics, and Network Solutions.
JumpStation JumpStation uses "robots" to go out and compile Web indexes by subject, title, and document header. Be warned: The search results vary widely in focus.
List of American Universities This home page is nothing more than a list of links to more than 150 college and university home universities.html pages. Check out your alma mater, or take a look at your prospective institution of higher education.
Lycos Lycos is Carnegie-Mellon's well-known Internet search tool. It's massive and sometimes painfully overburdened, even though several servers are on-line.
Mother-of-all-BBS Here's another subject-oriented index of Web pages. This one solicits information summary.html about new sites from users.
Netsurfer Digest The Digest is a free weekly magazine focusing on Web news. You haveto subscribe, and when you do, you request delivery either as straight text or in a linked format. You'll also get a promotional mailing once a week.
Nexor Public Services Here's another popular search tool, with powerful directories that perform keyword searches across the Web.
Virtual Town This Web index is presented as a colorful aerial view of a town. Click on the place you want to go.Note that it's currently under "heavy construction."
WebCrawler The WebCrawler contains 350,000 Web documents indexed for keyword searches. It's incredibly comprehensive and surprisingly fast.
World Wide Web Worm The Worm is an automated search system that scans the Web at your request and creates a personal searchable catalog.
World Wide Yellow Pages Just what you'd expect: lists of all the businesses on the Web, with daily updates and links to search tools.
WWW Frequently Asked Questions Head here to read basic questions and answers about the Web. It's updated frequently with the latest developments.
The WWW Virtual Library Another good place to start exploring if you have a particular topic in mind, the Virtual Library includes topical and geographical indexes to Web pages.
Yahoo Yahoo is a massive, essential index of Web pages organized into categories. It also includes a search tool. Watch out: It's popular and crowded.
Government
Central Intelligence Agency Peek behind the veil at the company and find some interesting information about trouble spots all around the world.
Environmental Protection Agency At this site you'll find out everything you need to know about the environment, and unlike many other government home pages, this one includes a search tool.
FedWorld Information Network The National Technical Information Service provides this site for you to look up and order information. It also offers links to other government servers and the ability to search abstracts of government reports.
Library of Congress This is an essential stop on your Web tour. Don't miss the incredible on-line exhibitions as well as a country-by-country tour of the world.
National Performance Review Perhaps you'll run into Al Gore at this site, where documents about his efforts to reduce the size of the Federal government are stored.
Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet Thomas presents a wealth of legislative information on-linefrom the last two congressional sessions. The good part is that you can search through it all using keywords.
U.S. Bureau of the Census Here you'll find reams of interesting demographic data, though some of it ishard to access.
U.S. Constitution It's nice to know the document is there when you need it. A good example of a classic document presented in HTML format.
U.S. House of Representatives This site contains schedules of House activity, and gives you access to connected members and additional Capitol Hill info.
U.S. Navy OnLine U.S. Navy OnLine is interesting more because it exists at all and is really well donethan because of its content.
The White House Look around the Executive Mansion, listen to Socks meow, and sign the guest book.
@art This virtual gallery is a University of Illinois sponsored forum for the presentation of art exhibits. You'll get some cutting-edge ideas about art and how to show it best on-line.
The Cisco Educational Archive Here's a good-looking collection of jumps to home pages that will appeal to students in the K12 range.
City Lights Publishers and Booksellers Browse the shelves of San Francisco's funkiest bookstore, the home of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other Beat poets.
City.Net These pages presentguides to several major American cities. The information varies in quality and depth.
Games Domain The Games Domain is a one-stop location for information about and links to computer games as GamesDomain well as on-line Internet role-playing games.
HotWired Wired magazine'son-line equivalent is a great Web implementation that gives a taste of what to expect from on-line magazines in the future. Subscriptions are free, but you must sign up.
Hype ElectraZine This is currently one of the coolest e-zines on-line, with some dazzling graphics, terrifically entertaining content, and links to thenetherworld of the Web.
Interesting Places for Kids If you have school-age kids, take advantage of this list of links to hundreds of fun places to explore.
Internet Movie Database Browser It's not as engaging as the Cinemania CD-ROM, but it's currently the best on-line database of films you can find on the Web.
Internet Underground Music Archive This is where independent bands post songs, photos, and info. It is searchable in several categories.
Lego Here's a good example of a home page that mixes marketing, fun, and fanaticism. It's all the latest Lego news that's fit to download.
Megadeth Arizona This page is much more than a fan club for the heavy-metal band. It's a great-looking, colorful virtual town. Horoscopes are included.
Mercury Center Web The Mercury News site is one of the first on-line versions of a newspaper and it's still the best. Expect to find lots of extra information that doesn't make it into the print version.
The Nine Planets Visit here for a dazzling multimedia tour of our solar system, complete with lots of color photos. The whole thing is very impressive.
Time Magazine Cool graphical menus take you through Time magazine on-lineand to other Time Inc. publications.
Tower Records This site simulates the electronic record catalogs you find in Tower stores, and you can order merchandise, too.
Ultimate Band List There's no better resource for quickly finding informationabout your favorite musicians than this A-to-Z listing. There are links to hundreds of bands in all musical styles.
Ultimate TV List Turn off the TV, turn on the PC, and explore links to home pages for hundreds of TV shows both current and classic.
Underground Net It bills itself as "anarchy at its worst" If you're adventurous, you'll appreciate the bizarre, strange, and cool places this page takes you.
Warner Bros. Records One of the best of many record-company home pages. There is no shortage of musical downloads available from your favorite recording stars.
Web Museum This is one ofthe best current examples of displaying artwork on-line. Great graphics of the Louvre collection are available for those with the patience to download them.
Windham Hill Records The Windham Hill site is as good-looking as the album covers. It includes a full catalog of available titles, and sound clips are yours for the downloading.
World Wide Web of Sports While not ABC's "Wide World of Sports," this is one of the most complete one-stop sports pages, and there are links to take you all over the sports world.
Business/Commerce/Shopping
Branch Mall Branch Information Services provides more browsing than real shopping, but you get the idea of whaton-line shopping is all about.
CommerceNet This page is agreat source of information about how to do business on the Internet, with linksto a wide variety of business-related sites.
Ecash All you needto know about the potential benefits and pitfalls of electronic cash on-line.
Entrepreneurs on the Web Still in its infancy, this site for small businesses is already a good resource for up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
Internet Business Center Here's another great business resource designed for anyone interested in trying to do business on the Internet. You'll also find useful information on Internet users.
The Internet Plaza Here is more shopping, with many links still under construction. Some let you place orders on-line.
Internet Shopping Network You have to sign up (no charge) to become a member of ISN, but then you can order from FTD, Hammacher Schlemmer, and more.
The Legal Information Institute If you have any questions about business and the law, this is as good a site as any other to start your searching.
Quotecom This site provides stock quotes and all kinds of international financial news and information.
Trade Law There's still some construction going on here, but already there are great international links for trade information, and you can snoop all around the United Nations too.
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