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- WWW Starting Points - Point Your World Wide Web Browsers and start surfin'
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- A Good Start point WWW
- Fantastic web site "chock full-o-nuts"
- http://www.mecklerweb.com
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- Yes there are better sites but this one is hard to beat for a good general
- starting point for ALL types of users. Check it out - you'll like it!
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- A Superb Surfing Start Point
- http://home.mcom.com/escapes/index.html
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- From Netscape comes a great place to start your Internet Explorations!
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- Great place to start!
- Josh Hillman's Home Page (Josh's Junkyard)
- http://gold.acns.fsu.edu/~jph9502
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- Many informative links, Web search engine links and places to go! One of
- the best "personal" web pages that offer a fine starting point and many
- links to search engines to find what you want. A good general surf page.
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- Yanoff Internet List WWW URLs:
- Yanoff special internet connections
- http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html
- http://info.cern.ch/hyper-text/DataSources/Yanoff.html
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- These are the "premier" lists for internet travel. Always has the new
- mixed in with the old. Great if you need Mac places to visit or just want
- to find out what's new on the net. Get this once a month. The TV guide of
- the Internet!
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- Yahoo Web site (new address!)
- http://www.yahoo.com/
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- Holy Cow! You'll be surfing for years from this one site alone! Very cool!
- Another GREAT place to start your net surfing adventure(s)! This Home page
- is one of the most popular in the WWW and also offers a superb searchable
- database of over 40,000 Web pages and the database continues to grow. The
- search index is free and if you don't visit this page - then you can't say
- you've been surfing on the web. A must see for all WWW travellers.
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- Starting points for Gopher users
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- Gopher to: liberty.uc.wlu.edu
- Washington and Lee University in Virginia, US
- - a fantastic alternative to "boom-box". Includes a WAIS-indexed database
- and provides a list of new gophers updated daily.
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- Gopher to: boombox.micro.umn.edu
- University of Minnesota "Home" gopher
- - the "mother" of all gophers still maintains an impressive site. This has
- become a true Internet standard in the world of gophering. A must see.
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- Gopher Jewels
- gopher to: cwis.usc.edu
- then select /Other Gophers and Information Resources/Gopher-Jewels
- - as it says... neat places to gopher - constantly updated and changing.
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- Yanoff Internet list
- gopher to: gopher.uwm.edu
- then select /Remote Information Servers/Special Internet Connections
- - a selection of great burrowing sites for your gopher client. Point your
- gopher here for great places to go. Updated frequently. A must see.
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- Listserv of Top-Ten URLs
- To get the listserv documents follow this format:
- Subject line: Subscribe top-ten
- Message body: subscribe top-ten <your email address>
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- mail the message off to: listserv@clark.net
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- You'll get constant updates and new URLs that the keepers of the listserv
- deem as worthy of top-ten status. Always something new and interesting.
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- Global Network Navigator Help Desk
- http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/helpdesk/index.html
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- This is one of the premier and best surfing start points for finding out
- and understanding all about how the Internet works. Easy and breezy, this
- page is clear and concise and contains many links to other great help
- sites. In fact, this page is so good I've listed it as a start point in
- the other section of this BIGSurf Net-List. Every 'netter should get here
- at least once to check up on how the 'net works. It's a good idea to have
- an understanding of the waters you'll be surfing in - get here soon!
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