Sampling of starting points for Internet exploration

The following is only some of the possible starting points for internet exploration mostly outside Finland but sometimes with optimization for FUNET users...

• What's New on the Net
  • What's New With NCSA Mosaic
  • The Learned InfoNet
• Networking
  • Terena Information Service
  • DANTE's WWW server
  • the remains of the DISCUS server
  • Internet Society Home Page
  • Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • The Internet Index
  • EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (was Big Dummys Guide To The Internet)
  • Internet Tools
  • A collection of how-to guides and resources
  • Internaut, The PC-Internet Connection Update Page
  • The NSF Network News is a publication for the Internet community and is accessible as a hypermedia version trough the InterNIC home page.
  • RARE UPTURN (Umbrella Proposal for Telematics for Users and Research Networks)
  • Overview of the EC IVth Framework
  • Information Market - EUROPE !
  • Telecom information at VTT and Analysys >
  • The National Information Infrastructure (in the US)
  • ISO Online
• Geographical views
  • The Virtual Tourist (Atlas of the World)
  • Map of finnish resources
  • Europe
  • City Net
  • USA Citylink
  • List of WWW servers by CERN
  • Planet Earth
  • EINET Galaxy
• Searchable databases
  • Lycos,The Catalog of the Internet
  • Veronica (at SUNET)(at SUNET)
  • ALIWEB (Archie-Like Indexing for the Web) (pilot)
  • The CUI W3 searchable catalog
  • The Mother-of-all BBS
• Subject oriented catalogues
  • The Whole Internet Catalog
  • What's New With NCSA Mosaic tells also what's new in the Web
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
  • A list of Virtual Libraries on the Web
  • Global Network Navigator
  • Christian WWW Resource List
  • Microscopy Page
  • Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (UMich)
• Protocol oriented catalogues
  • The list of finnish internet resources
  • Data sources classified by access protocol
  • Gopher Jewels (UWASA mirror)
• Art and Academia
  • UIAH Art Navigator
  • Lysator Main Page, Scandinavian literature and paintings
  • The Globewide Network Academy
  • HyperMedia Zines on the Net
  • WIRED Magazine's Rest Stop on the Infobahn
  • UWI's Web's Edge
  • Le Louvre
• International conferences
  • JENC7 - 7th Joint European Networking Conference, 13-16 May 1996, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary
  • Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, December 11-14, 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Supercomputing95, San Diego, USA
  • 6. Joint European Networking Conference, Tel Aviv
  • The Official Homepage of the 32nd Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
  • INET'95, the 5th Annual Conference of the Internet Society
  • INET'95 Proceedings
  • Third International World-Wide Web Conference, Technology, Tools, and Application, April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Danvers IETF Meeting (April 1995)
  • The Hypertext-Information Retrieval-Multimedia conference HIM'95
  • WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF HYPERMEDIA
  • The Second International WWW Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, Proceedings
  • Conference on Human Factors in Computing
• Miscellaneous
  • The Bangemann Commission Document, "Europe and the global information society, Recommendations to the European Council"
  • Global Recycling Network
  • The Ada Project - A Collection of Resources for Women in Computing
  • Yachting
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