Resources for
Module 3
- Abacus Applet
- A java-implementation of a working Abacus, and information on how to use one.
- Alta Vista Search Engine
- by Digital Equipment Corp.
- Beginner's HTML
- At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, home of Mosaic browsers, a beginner's guide to coding in HTML.
- Brief History of the Internet
- From the Internet Society.
- Charles Babbage Institute
- Dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing.
- CNet News Service
- A news service that will let you customize your interests and send you weekly email with headlines
- Colorado State SavvySearch
- Searching interface that integrates multiple search engines.
- Communications Decency Act - 1996
- Full text of the 1996 CDA ruling.
- Copyright Website
- Lots of copyright information for the WWW.
- Crash-Course in WWW Docs
- A Crash-Course on HTML coding by Ziff-Davis Publishing.
- c|net News
- The latest news about the net.
- DejaNews Search
- Searches news items and newsgroups.
- DropStuff
- Drag and drop stuff/unstuff utility.
- Excite Search Engine
- Excite home.
- Federal Networking Council
- Official government definition of the Internet.
- Galaxy Search Engine
- by Trade Wave Corp. A search engine and catalog of subjects.
- Good Hypertext Writing
- Musings on good text style in Web pages by Jutta Degener.
- History of Internet and WWW
- Essay by Gregory R. Gromov.
- History of the Net
- The View from Internet Valley.
- HTML Bad Style Page
- Good explanation of why bad HTML is bad.
- InfoSeek Net Search
- InfoSeek home. Also a starting point for browsing "cool" sites.
- Internet Caucus
- A group of US legislators trying to protect the Internet.
- Internet History
- From the Discovery Channel.
- J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing
- A collection of materials related to the history of computing
- Kasparov v. DeepBlue Page
- Comprehensive information on the rematch, and more, sponsored by IBM.
- Law of the Net: Problems and Prospects
- Thinking ahead about Internet legislation.
- Lycos Search Engine
- Lycos home. Now a commercial search engine: created at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Managing the Virtual Commons
- Sociological view of cyberspace.
- MOO Central
- Information and pointers to educational Multi-User Domains (Dungeons) and other virtual environments.
- MUD Catalog
- Kent State Department of Education lists all the MOOs/MUDs that are fit to print.
- Multimedia Graphics Listing
- Maintained by Maricopa college, this is a vast resource of images for you to browse.
- NetLingo
- A dictionary of the Internet language.
- Netscape Guide to HTML
- A listing of on and off-site resources for style and composition of HTML documents.
- Newspage
- A customizable news service
- PBS Internet timeline
- From the PBS series Life on the Internet.
- PKZip
- The original zip/unzip utility.
- Stuffit Expander
- Most widely used Mac stuff/unstuff utility.
- Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
- From the Computer Ethics Institute.
- Virtual Museum of Computing
- Wonderful listings of computing history, computing resources, images, etc.
- Webcrawler
- Search engine originally from U. Colorado.
- WebTV
- Magnavox's WebTV site.
- WinZip
- Windows 3.1 and 95 graphical zip/unzip utility.
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Home of the WWW Project, as started and continued by T. Berners-Lee.
- World Wide Web Primer
- Written by N. Torkington in New Zealand, this primer talks about the origins of the Web and explains protocols, networking, etc.
- WWW Frequently Asked Questions
- Written by T. Boutell and Boutell Com., Inc.: everything you always wanted to know about the Web (in multiple languages yet) but were afraid to know.
- Yahoo Web Search and Directory
- Cataloged and searchable listings from Yahoo, an outgrowth of the Stanford Web cataloging project.
- Yale Web Style Guide
- Combines traditional editorial approaches to documents with technical authoring skills.
- ZipIt Homepage
- Unzip utility for the Macintosh.
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