Intro to Web Surfing and Searching

• About.com's Internet for Beginners, which has great information, including info on viruses. (You can't surf the Web without knowing about them!)
• Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia's Surf Sites: a collection of links about using the Web, Web publishing and searching, FAQs, US Patents, Internet history, programming languages, and more.
  
  
• Web Security for Beginners
  • Norton/Symantec AntiVirus -- it's free to any member of the UIC community, to put on any of their computers, at home or on campus. Don't Surf Without It!
  • Keeping Secure on the Web
  • Cookies on the Web
  • Active Content on the Web (Java, JavaScript, ActiveX)
  • Web Security at UIC: Bluestem
    
    
• About URLs: NCSA Beginner's Guide to URLs
  
  
• WWW FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• FYI 4/RFC 1206: answers to common "New Internet User" questions

• Firefox/Mozilla. a well recommended alternate to IE, available for all platforms.
  For security reasons, the ACCC recomments the use of Firefox rather than IE whenever possible.
  • Firefox/Mozilla documentation
  • Firefox/Mozilla support links
  • download Firefox/Mozilla
    
• Netscape
  • Netscape FAQs
  • Using Netscape
  • download Netscape Navigator, link to download the latest version of Netscape
    
• Internet Explorer
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer home page
  • IE Support Center
  • IE downloads
• ACCC UNIX Web browsers (Don't use these unless you must.)
  • lynx WWW browser (on tigger and icarus)
  • mosaic WWW browser (NCSA)
  • netscape (X Windows WWW browser, on tigger and icarus)
    
    
• Other browsers: Yahoo!'s Web Software >Browsers page

• SearchUIC, search the UIC Web pages
  
  
• UIC Library Resources Page: A treasure-trove: search online catalogs, indexes and databases, and electronic journals, many of which are licensed specifically for the UIC community.
• UIC Library's Electronic Reference Shelf: The Library's other treasure-trove: dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, directories, gazetteers, maps, atlases, handbooks, and archives, and links to other collections of reference tools. Some of these are licensed for the UIC community also, including the online Oxford English Dictionary and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  
  
• Web Search Engines: There are lots more, but here are some popular ones:
  • Lycos
  • Yahoo
  • Google (my personal favorite)
    
    
• Lists of Web Sites:
  • When I first wrote this Web page, in the way dark past, there were few enough Web pages for people to attempt to list them. Now that's an impossible task. But there are lists on specialized sites. Library Web servers, museum Web servers, lists of Energy-Efficiency Web Sites, and so on. If you're interested, here's a Google search to browse:
    Google search for lists of Web sites.
    
    
• Online Collections of Freeware and Shareware Software:
• C|Net's shareware.com collection of Internet freeware and shareware software
• TUCOWS collection of Internet freeware and shareware software
• tile.net collection of anonymous FTP sites (also newsgroups, vendors, and Internet service companies)
• FTP archives for MS-windows
• FTP archives for Windows FAQ
• FYI 24/RFC 1635: how to use anonymous ftp FAQ

• John December's Internet Overview. John December has been working on his Internet tools pages since 1992, and it shows.


• Ready to start publishing on the Web? Web Publishing at UIC explains how.