The Internet Yellow Pages, by Harley Hahn and Rick Stout. Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1994.
SURAnet Guide to Selected Internet Resources , by the SURAnet Network Information Center. This is a monthly updated guide to new and unique Internet resources. ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/nic/how.to.get.SURAnetguide or call (301) 982-4600 to order.
Special Internet Connections , compiled by Scott Yanoff ( yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) This is a list of Internet services organized by subject. ftp://cds4.csd.uwm.edu/pub/inet.services.txt
Network Information Centers
Asia-Pacific:Asia Pacifica Network Information Center (APNIC), c/o Computer Center, University of Tokyo 2-11-16; Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 JapanPhone: 81-3-3580-3781, 81-3-3580-3784Fax: 81-3-3580-3782Email: admin@apnic.netInformation: gopher://apnic.net
Australia: Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNET), GPO Box 1142, Canberra ACT 2601 AustraliaPhone: 61-6-249-3385Fax: 61-6-249-1369 Email: aarnet@aarnet.edu.auInformation: gopher://plaza.aarnet.edu.au; http://aarnet.edu.au
Canada:The CA-NET Network Operations Centre (NA-NOC), University of Toronto, 255 Huron St., Room 367, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, CanadaPhone: (416) 978-4621Email: noc@canet.ca
Europe:RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE-NCC), Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPhone: 31-20-592-5065, Fax: 31-20-592-5090Email: ncc@RIPE.NET
United States: InterNIC Information ServicesPhone: (800) 444-4343, (619) 455-4600Email: info@internic.netInformation: telnet://gopher.internic.net(login gopher); gopher://gopher.internic.net
Information Services:General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-9784Phone: (800) 444-4345, (619) 455-4600Fax: (619) 455-4640Email: info@is.internic.netInformation: telnet://is.internic.net(login gopher); ftp|gopher://is.internic.net/; http://www.internic.net
Directory and Database Services: AT&TPhone: (800) 862-0677, (908) 668-6587Fax: (908) 668-3763Email: admin@ds.internic.net Information: ftp|gopher://ds.internic.net; http://www.internic.net
Registration Services: Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), Attn: InterNIC Registration Services, 505 Huntmar Park Dr., Herndon, VA 22070Phone: (703) 742-4777Email: admin@rs.internic.net Information: telnet|ftp|gopher://rs.internic.net; http://www.internic.net
Commercial Networking
Organizations and Consortiums
CommerceNet, 459 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301Phone: (415) 617-8790Fax: (415) 617-1516Email: info@commerce.net Information: ftp://ftp.commerce.net/; http://www.commerce.net
The Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) Association Trade Association of Commercial Internet Providers, 3110 Fairview Park Dr, Suite 590, Falls Church, VA 22042Phone: (303) 482-2150Fax: (303) 482-2884Email: info@cix.orgInformation: ftp|gopher://cix.org/
Enterprise Integration Networking (EINet), Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), 3500 West Balcones Center Dr., Austin, TX 78759Phone: (512) 338-3569Fax: (512) 338-3897Email: info@einet.net; Email server: einet-info@einet.net
Commercial Information Services
ClariNet Communications Corporation, 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 206, San Jose, CA 95129Phone: (408) 296-0366, (800) USE-NETSFax: (408) 296-1668Email: info@clarinet.com ftp://ftp.clarinetcom/clarinet_info/main_info
Dialog Information ServicesPhone:(415) 858-3785, (800) 3-DIALOG; Fax: (415) 858-7069
Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Dow Jones Information Services Phone (customer service): (800) 522-3567
Lexis-Nexis, Mead Data Central, Inc. Phone: (800) 227-4908
Books and Periodicals
Cronin, Mary. Doing Business on the Internet: How the Electronic Highway Is Transforming American Companies. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
Internet Business Journal. Subscriptions $149/12 issues (year). Write to: Strangelove Press, 60 Springfield Rd., Suite 1, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1M 1C7. For more information, see: ftp://nstn.ns.ca/pub/internet-business-journal/subscription.info or gopher://gopher.fonorola.net(Choose Internet Business Journal.)
Internet Business Report. Subscription information available from CMP Publications, Inc., 600 Community Dr., Manhasset, N.Y. 10030.
Hypercard Tours
A Cruise of the Internet. Developed by Steve Burdick in collaboration with Laura Kelleher and Mark Davis for Merit Network, Inc. ftp://nic.merit.edu/resources/ (Choose directory cruise.dos or cruise.mac.) For more information, contact Merit Network, Inc., Information Services, 2901 Hubbard, Pod G, Ann Arbor, MI 48105. Email address: cruise2feedback@merit.edu
Tour of the Internet. Developed by the NSF Network Service Center (NNSC), BBN Laboratories, Inc. ftp://ftp.es.net/pub/networking-info/internet-tour/Get the internet-tour-readme.txt file for instructions on getting and installing this HyperCard stack.
Books and Online Documents
See elsewhere in the Appendix for a listing of Internet resource guides, both hardcopy and online.
Resource Catalogs and Lists
Finding Sites
New Internet Sites is a database of new WorldWideWeb, Gopher, hytelnet, and WAIS sites. gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu(Choose Explore Internet Resources.)
Nova-Links Internet Access, maintained by Rob Kabacoff, is a WorldWideWeb navigator of available WWW, Gopher, and hytelnet sites that is updated daily. It also provides software libraries and a "fun and games page." http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/start.html
Sites to Lose Yourself In
NASA. NASA has a large number of Web, Gopher, FTP, WAIS, and Telnet sites. In the NASA sites, you can view the latest Hubble Space Telescope photographs, read the notebook logs of the JASON project, and access NASA's immense databases of astrophysics, oceanography, and geosciences information. For a hypertext gateway to all of NASA's resources, tryhttp://www.jsc.nasa.gov/NASAInternetConnection.htmlOtherwise, connect to the Goddard Space Flight Center: ftp://ftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/;gopher://gopher.gsfc.nasa.gov/;http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
SunSITE. Telnetting to SunSITE will provide public access to all of the most frequently used clients, including lynx, WAIS, and Gopher; there is also a large anonymous FTP archive. The SunSITE WorldWideWeb site archives the White House papers, has a large number of multimedia "exhibits," serves the Cisco K-12 Educational Archive and Resource Catalog, and provides Dr. Fun, a daily cartoon; it is so popular that it receives 100,000 visitors per day. telnet|FTP|gopher|http://sunsite.unc.edu/
For More Information
The Clearinghouse for Networked Information and Retrieval (CNIDR) provides information on and promotes the use of Network Information and Retrieval (NIDR) tools. gopher://gopher.cnidr.org; http://cnidr.org/welcome.html
The mailing list, NEWNIR-L, discusses new Network Information and Retrieval Services. List address: NEWNIR-L@ITOCSIUM.BITNET. To subscribe: LISTSERV@ITOCSIUM.BITNET
The mailing list, Net Happenings, distributes announcements of interest, including new Internet resources, conferences, and publications. To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@is.internic.net and in the body of the message type: subscribe net-happenings
Telnet Resources
List of Sites.A good list of Telnet sites is included in Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections(see the "Starting Your Internet Tour" section of this Appendix).
Greatest Hits. Dartmouth Library. Access Dante's Divine Comedy and all the criticism written on it, The King James Bible, and Shakespeare's Sonnets. telnet://library.dartmouth.edu
Library of Congress. Access a database of all of the Library of Congress' holdings, or find the most up-to-date legislative and copyright information. telnet://locis.loc.gov
Anonymous FTP Resources
List of Sites.List of Anonymous FTP Sites, originally by Tom Czarnik, now maintained by Perry Rovers ( Perry.Rovers@kub.nl). ftp://ftp.edu.tw/documents/networking/guides/ftp-list/sitelist
How to Find Sources and Lists of Mail Servers, originally by Jonathan Kamens, now maintained by Kent Lanfield (kent@sterling.com). Includes a list of anonymous FTP sites that allow files to be accessed via email. Posted regularly to the USENET newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted, alt.sources.wanted, comp.answers, alt.answers, and news.answers To get a current copy, send email to: send-finding- sources-faq@sterling.com
Greatest Hits. Entertainment Archives. Includes the largest humor archive on the Internet, as well as directories for TV and music, puzzles, books, cyberculture, Disney, and baseball, among many others: ftp://quartz.rutgers.edu/pub Send email to pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu for more information.
NCSA. The home of Telnet, Mosaic, and a large virtual reality archive: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
UUNET Archives of Everything. All the software you could possibly need can be found here: ftp://ftp.uu.net/For more information, send email to archive@uunet.uu.net
Gopher Resources
Lists of SitesGopher Jewels., maintained by David Riggins ( david.riggins@tpoint.com). Lists Gopher sites by category. gopher://cwis.usc.edu (Choose Other Gophers and Information Servers); http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html David Riggins also maintains a mailing list for sharing interesting Gopher finds: GOPHERJEWELS@EINET.NET To subscribe, send a message to listproc@einet.net and put the following command in the body: subscribe gopher jewels firstname lastname
All the Gopher Servers in the World (the name says it all). Gopher sites are listed by geographical location: gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu(look in the directory Other Gopher and Information Servers).
Gopher-Mail is a guide for accessing Gopher resources via electronic mail. For more information, send email to gophermail-admin@calvin.edu
Greatest Hits. The Internet Wiretap. This gargantuan Gopher site maintains a video game archive, archives the White House press releases, and has a large Etext library. gopher://wiretap.spies.com Send email to gopher@wiretap.spies.com for more information.
UIUC Weather Machine . This Gopher site provides up-to-the-minute weather forecasts for every part of the United States, along with the latest satellite images. gopher://wx.atmos.uiuc.edu
The World. The home of the Online Book Initiative, a project for publishing electronic texts, as well as a shopping mall and an archive of newsgroups and mailing lists. Also provides gateways to a large number of other Gopher and Telnet sites. gopher://gopher.std.com
Additional Information and Discussion.: Mailing list: GOPHERN, also called "Let's Go Gopherin'," is dedicated to discussing new and interesting Gopher sites. List address: GOPHERN@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU To subscribe: LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
Veronica FAQ: Compiled and maintained by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie: gopher://veronica.scs.unr.edu(Choose Search All of Gopherspace Using Veronica.)
USENET: See comp.infosystems.gopher or alt.gopher
WAIS
List of Sites. Master Directory of WAIS Servers.. Indexes all the WAIS sites. ftp://quake.think.com/pub/wais/; http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WAIS/ByHost.html
Newsgroup-Related Indexes, by Edward Vielmetti. Lists WAIS sites that index some or all of USENET newsgroups. http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Products/WAIS/Sources/NewsGroupRelated.html
Greatest Hits. CIA World Factbook. This immense resource is searchable via gopher and WAIS at gopher://gopher.uwo.ca(Choose Selected Internet Resources, then Books, Serials, Music.)
White House Papers. A WAIS search of all the Clinton papers is available at telnet://sunsite.unc.edu(login as politics).
Additional Information and Discussion. USENET: comp.infosystems.wais is a general discussion of WAIS.
WorldWideWeb
Lists of Sites.CUI Catalog. A powerful searching tool of WorldWideWeb resources: Also regularly announces "what's new" in the Web: http://cui_www.unige.ch/w3catalog
MKGray@MIT.EDU's New 'Wow, It's Big!' Comprehensive HTTP Site List, compiled and maintained by Matthew K. Gray ( mkgray@mit.edu). Lists every WWW site, and provides information on the growth of the web: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mkgray/compre3.html
Virtual Library. Lists WorldWideWeb servers by subject: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html
W3 Servers. A geographical listing of WorldWideWeb servers: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Geographical.html
Greatest Hits. Doctor Fun. The Web's own daily cartoon, as well as archives of every Doctor Fun, and a place to grab Doctor Fun thumbnails for your own home pages: http://sunsite.unc.edu/Dave/drfun.html
EINet Galaxy. This huge WWW site searches the Internet for any topic imaginable, from multimedia and fun stuff to education, business, medicine, and law, and provides pointers to virtually all the information you could need: http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html For more information, send email to: galaxy@einet.net
Online BookStore. Find the Mosaic version of the first Stephen King story to be published on the Internet, or order a copy of: The Internet Companion. http://www.obs-us.com/
Wired. The WWW site of the popular alternative magazine archives back issues, provides discussion on ongoing topics, and has subscription forms: http://wired.com To receive update announcements, send email to infobot@wired.com with the message subscribe hotwired. For more information, send email to: www@wired.com
Additional Information and Discussion. List of FAQs and Guides to WWW. Starting from here, you should be able to find the answer to any question about anything in the WorldWideWeb: http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/FAQ/www.html
URL Specifications. The official specifications are available at: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/URL_TOC.html
WWW FAQ, maintained by Thomas Boutell ( boutell@netcom.com). Posted regularly to comp.infosystems.www, and archived at: http://siva.cshl.org/~boutell/www_faq.html
USENET: comp.infosystems.www is a general discussion of all WWW issues; comp.os.lynx discusses lynx, a WWW text browser.
Software, Games, and Video Archives
Merit/University of Michigan Software Archives, maintained by Fred Swartz ( archive-admin@archive.umich.edu). gopher://gopher.archive.merit.net(Choose Merit Software Archives.)
MPEG Archives. MPEG videos that can be accessed through the WorldWideWeb: http://w3.eeb.ele.tue.nl/mpeg/index.html
PC Game Archives, maintained by Brian O'Neill ( oneill@cs.uml.edu): ftp://ftp.ulowell.edu/msdos/Games/(See the README file in this directory.)
Other large software archives (for all systems) can be found at: ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/, ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/, and ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/ or pub2/
Communication Directories, Resources, and Lists
Email Directories of Addresses
How to Find People's E-Mail Addresses FAQ, by Jonathan Kamens, and maintained by David Lamb ( dlamb@qucis.queensu.ca). Posted regularly to the USENET newsgroups: comp.answers, soc.answers, news.answers, comp.mail.misc, soc.net-people, and news.newusers.questions Archived at: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/finding-addresses
InterNIC White Pages. Email questions to admin@ds.internic.net. telnet://ds.internic.net(login as guest); ftp://ds.internic.net/internic.info/(see the file whitepages.info); gopher://gopher.internic.net/(Choose InterNic Directory and Database Services.); http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspgwp.html
List of Internet Whois Servers, by Matt Power (mhpower@mit.edu): ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list; gopher://sipb.mit.edu(Choose Internet Whois Servers.)
NetPages, by Susan Estrada, Aldea Communications, Inc., Carlsbad CA. Email: netpages@aldea.com Phone: 1-800-TOALDEA or (619) 943-0101
NYSERNET/PSI White Pages. For more information, send email to: wpp-manager@psi.com. telnet://wp.psi.com (login as fred)
Stable Large Email Database (SLED). SLED registers people and provides a directory service. For more information, send email to sled@drebes.com with the subject info.
!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addresses and Networks, by Donnalyn Frey and Rich Adams. This is a detailed resource to over 130 networks. Published by O'Reilly and Associates.
In addition, university Gopher servers often maintain directories of students and faculty. See the "Gopher" section above for lists of Gopher sites.
Online Address Services
CSO: searches "all the directory servers in the world." gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu/(Choose Phone Books and then phone Books at Other Institutions.)
Knowbot: a uniform interface to the white pages services on the Internet: telnet://cnri.reston.va.us
Netfind: a program that queries the network to find addresses: telnet://bruno.cs.colorado.edu(login as netfind). Gopher gateway to Netfind: gopher://ds.internic.net:4320( Choose Network Wide E-Mail Searches.)
X.500: to look up addresses for people and organizations. gopher://ds.internic.net(Choose Directory and Database Services, then White Pages, then the X500 Gateway.)
WHOIS: another way to look up addresses for people and organizations. gopher://ds.internic.net:4320
Lists of Mailing Lists and Misc. Documents
Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, compiled by Diane K. Kovacs ( dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu). Provides descriptions of scholarly mailing lists of interest to scholars: ftp://ksuvxa.KENT.EDU/library/; (See the file: ACADLIST.README.) A print version is available from the Association of Research Libraries; contact Ann Okerson at: ann@cni.org
List of BITNET LISTSERV Lists, compiled and maintained at the BITNET Network Information Center (BITNIC), Washington, DC. Available via email by sending a message to listserv@bitnic.cren.net with the message, list global. For more information, send email to listserv@bitnic.cren.net with the message info or contact the BITNIC, 1112 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 872-4200.
Mailing List Search. WWW search of all available mailing lists and their descriptions: http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/lists
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, compiled and maintained by Stephanie da Silva ( arielle@taronga.com): ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/mailing-lists; http://www.ii.uib.no/cgi-bin/paml
Inter-Network Mail Guide, originally by John J. Chew, now maintained by Scott Yanoff ( yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu). A guide on how to send electronic mail: ftp://csd4.csd.uwm.edu/pub/internetwork-mail-guide; http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl
Smiley Server, maintained by David W. Sanderson. Online resource of all the "smilies" in the known universe: ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume23/smiley; gopher://gopher.ora.com(Choose Feature Articles, then All the Smileys. . . .) Smileys is also available in hardcopy from O'Reilly and Associates (1993).
USENET: comp.mail.misc
USENET News
Newsgroup Lists and Descriptions.WWW List of Internet Newsgroups. Also provides instructions for reading news with a WWW client: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/News/Groups/Overview.html
Search USENET newsgroup descriptions (and USENET FAQs): gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca(Choose Internet Resources, then Search USENET Newsgroup Descriptions.)
USENET FAQs and Periodic Postings.USENET FAQs. Posted or emailed regularly to newsgroups and mailing lists; also regularly posted on the USENET newsgroup news.answers. Archives: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/; gopher://gopher.physics.utoronto.ca ( Choose USENET News Frequently Asked Questions.); http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html Periodic Postings, compiled and maintained by Jonathan I. Kamens. Periodic documents are posted or emailed regularly to newsgroups and mailing lists. Archives: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings
MUDs, MOOs, MUSEs, and MUSHs
Lists of MUDs.MUD List Archive. Also provides a MUD FAQ and descriptions of a few MUDs. Select "jack in" to login to various MUDs. gopher://actlab.rtf.utexas.edu(Choose Virtual Spaces: MUD.)
Totally Unofficial List of Internet MUDs, compiled by Scott Goehring: ftp://caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu/pub/mud/mudlist.txt
Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web, maintained by Andrew Plotkin ( zarf@cs.cmu.edu). http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/zarf/www/games.html
Greatest Hits. JaysHouseMOO. A place where friends hang out. This MOO actually has a WWW server running inside it. telnet://jayshouse.ccs.neu.edu:1709
lambdaMOO. This is probably the most popular of the interactive environments. Check the documentation for help and information: gopher://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu(Choose Computer Information, then OAC Staff Test Projects, then Steve Newton's Goodies, then LambdaMoo Documentation.) To get to lambdaMOO: telnet://lambda.parc.xerox.com:8888.
Nails. A MUD with a "Miami Vice" theme: telnet://flounder.rutgers.edu:5150. For more information, send email to rbright@clam.rutgers.edu
TrekMUSE. Based on the Star Trek universe. telnet://grimmy.cnidr.org:1701. For more information, see: ftp://grimmy.cnidr.org/trek/docs/trek-manual
Additional Information and Discussion. MUD FAQ: This is the rec.games.muds.misc FAQ: ftp://ftp.math.okstate.edu/pub/muds/misc/mud-faq/
USENET: For newsgroups discussing various interactive systems, see: alt.mud, rec.games.mud.announce, rec.games.mud.misc, and rec.games.mud.tiny(devoted to the tinyMUDs)
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