Here are links to various site indices or web directories. They are good starting points for your exploration and offer many interesting links.

Women Resource pages at the WyberNetz
Address: http://www.web-publishing.de/women/seiten.htm
A site directory of women resource pages in English, German, Italian and Dutch.

Blue Planet
Address: http://www.erols.com/owl/planet/homepage.html
Links to high quality web sites on the web

1111 Links
Address: http://www.ziff.com/~pcpro/1111/1111_idx.html
This site has been compiled by the german department of the ziff davis group, publisher of such famous magazines like PC-Professional. It has links to 1111 interesting pages on the web. Categories include Coming together, Computer, Food and Beverages, Family, Health, entertainment and much more. Though written in german, people not capable of german should be able to make their way through. Worth a look.

Brians Revised Internet Yellow Pages
Address: http://www.mindport.net/~b_ruth/
This is a nice site listing of internet sites. On the first page you will find links to sub-categories. The Main categories you will find Computers, Education, entertainment, Internet, Recreation and many more. A click on one of the sub-categories will bring you to a page were you will find some links to sites covering the selected topic. After looking at this site you'll probably guess why they are called "Yellow Pages".

Frank's World
Address: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5043
Franks world is the first step of a fellow in HTML coding. Apart from lots of personal information he has a listing of alphabetically organized links.

Hackstadts Hierachical Hotlist
Address: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~hacks/hotlist/
This site also provides links grouped categorically. There are lots of categories available not or rarely provided by similar pages. On the first page, you will also find how many links there are in this category. A click will send you to a listing of sub-categories. This way you can navigate your way through until you have found what you are looking for. This page does not have any nice graphics and is therefore very fast.

Hidden Rivers of the World Wide Web
Address: http://www.netaxs.com/~hopkins/
The author claims to have over 1500 links to good sites on the web. This page is organized, like many others, into categories/subcategories. A click on a (sub)category will bring you to a text only page with all the links.

The Hot Hot List
Address: www.ccsf.caltech.edu/~roy/others.html A simple, text only pages with lots of links to pages and lots of categories including Commercial, Computers, Linux, Cities and Reference. No images and very fast.

Hot Links
Address: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~fbeaver/
This site has 8 categories to help you surfing the web. Categories are Search, News, Sports,Wether, Reference, Nasa, Software and Misc.

Hot Links! Reference
Address: http://fly.HiWAAY.net/~fbeaver/reference.html
Many links to interesting places grouped by categories.

Hotsheet
Address: http://www.tstimpreso.com/hotsheet/
Dozens of links to interesting sites on the web. All on one nice page for your convenience. This has no graphics and loads really fast. Check it out.

Internet Tourbus
Address: http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.html
The Internet Tourbus is the home of a big mailing list, bringing you tons of new internet sites. Graphically very well designed. You can subscribe to the tourbus mailinglist, which will be sent to you twice a week directly from this site and of course browse archive of previous editions. A must for Web-surfers !

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Linkmaster
Address: http://linkmaster.com/
This site makes use of Navigator 2.0 frames and also provides a capability to search pages which include a certain feature. like java, Frames, Real Audio, etc. A search form for Linkmaster is available on the search engines page.

A2Z Lycos
Address: http://a2z.lycos.com/
This is Lycos's categorical listing of web sites. Each category is packed with tons of links and you can also search the entire categories as well as the complete lycos catalog.

Megalist WWW List
Address: http://www.worcester.com/cgi-bin/megalist/megalist
Another Site taking advantage of netscape 2.0 frames. There aren't any big images on this site which makes it fast. Categories include Art, Business, Computers, Education, Economy, Government, Health, Internet, Java, Legal, news, Politics and reference.

Net Links
Address: http://www.interlog.com/~csteele/netlinks.html
This nice site provides links to hot sites on the internet. They also have a link to information interesting for newbies (sounds familiar, eh ).

Netscape Internet Directory
Address: http://www.netscape.com/escapes/internet_directory.html
A directory maintained by the makers of Netscape Navigator. Not too much, but links to really good and hot sites.

Netsurfer Digest Home Page
Address: http://www.netsurf.com:80/nsd/
This is the home of the famous netsurfer's digest, an electronic mail-magazine, that provides and reviews links all over the web. The magazine is sent out to subscribers twice a month and has interesting categories with interesting sites. Here you will find an archive of previous newsletters.

New Rider's Official World wide Web Pages
Address: http://www.mcp.com/newriders/wwwyp/index.html
A great idea. It's almost as easy as using the "normal" Yellow Pages. (You know, they are for that funny item called telephone). This is the online version. As far as I'm informed, there is also a printed version issued several times a year.

The Spider Web's Hot Lists
Address: http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/hot.html
This site is a listing to other hot lists and web directories. You will find tons of links here. nice place to start if you are looking for the coolest things on the web.

Starting Point
Address: http://www.stpt.com/
A fast and easy to use web directory, offering 9 categories to start your tour. Starting Point also presents a new hot site every day. This site also has a meta search, a facility to search multiple search engines at once.

Tom Duffys WWW Links
Address: http://www.stx.com/~tduffey/
Grouped by categories, this site offers links to many useful sites on the web. It has common categories like Entertainment, Government, Internet, music and many more. also this page is not image-rich and loads very fast.

Top of the Web Home Page
Address:http://www.ibic.com/IBIC/TopOfTheWeb.html
The auther himself describes it as a fast-loading page, which is absolutely true. no annoying grafix and simple to use. The sites listed here are compiled from other resources, reviewing pages like pointcom.

XPlore
Address: http://www.xplore.com/xplore500/index.html
This site offers thre different version for low, medium and high network connections. It is well organized and provides many links to topics like Arts, Computers, Internet, Kids, Movies, news, sports, styles and many more. They also are reviewing a new site every day.

Yahoo
Address: http://www.yahoo.com
Well, nothing to say about this one. It is one of the major search engines on the net and also has a text-only, categorized listing of web-pages, which is expanded daily. If you are looking for something, this surely is the place to start.