Surfing & Searching the Web

The Web is immensely huge, with thousands of interesting Web sites and valuable resources. There is a lot of junk too. Following is a very small sample of excellent Web sites, search facilities and thousands of hyperlink pointers to useful information.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Visit it at http://www.eb.com

Oxford English Dictionary

http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/oed

EINet Galaxy

This is an excellent side full of interesting material and numerous hyperlinks. http://www.galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html

Yahoo

Yahoo is a hierarchical subject-oriented catalog for the Web and the Internet. Like EINet Galaxy, it is one of those places with hyperlink pointers to just about anything. The Yahoo search facilities are pretty good also. http://www.yahoo.com/

The Virtual Library

One of the original World Wide Web pearls. http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

Interactive Frog Dissection

An excellent example of using hypermedia for instruction. http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/~insttech/frog/

NCSA Mosaic Demo Document

This Web page has links to many impressive hypermedia applications. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/demo.html

Stock Market quotes, etc.

Security APL's server offers stock market quotes by ticker symbol and other money market information over the net. http://www.secapl.com

HotWired Magazine

One of the first commercial online magazines. Good articles, lots of graphics. http://www.wired.com/Login

O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator

Another premiere site with lots of hyperlinks to interesting hypermedia. http://nearnet.gnn.com

Chorus

A hypermedia instructional resource for the arts and the humanities. http://www.peinet.pe.ca:2080/Chorus/home.html

Best of the Web 1994

Hyperlinks to all the Best of the Web Awards applications. http://wings.buffalo.edu/contest/

ArchiePlex

Archie gateway for the WWW. An easy way to find free and public-domain software and information available on the Internet. http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Doc/archieplex.html

c|net Central Online

A very graphical Web site to complement c|net Central TV programs. http://www.cnet.com

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