Here is a list of interesting and useful servers.
This list is comtinually added to. If you have any suggestions for
web locations to add to this list, please send mail to mcgrew@info.rutgers.edu.
General
- Here's an excellent interface to New Jersey WWW
sites.
- NCSA's Network Starting Points documents. This
is the best place to start if you're looking for a specific network service.
It is a master index of major services around
the Internet. Among these services are several different attempts to
index all WWW and Gopher servers, although it tends to be slanted to WWW.
- Starting point for Gopher services. These are also covered
by the NCSA Starting Points, but this is a more convenient place to go if
you are specifically interested in Gopher.
- Here's the old University of Minnesota Gopher, for searching gopher-space (only).
- Oliver McBryan has collected many WWW sites in The Mother-of-all BBS. If you're browsing, an interesting place to look...
Internet
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has
many interesting things, including The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet.
- UCI's list of US Government Gopher sites.
- The Program Guide to the NetWorld+Interop '94 (Las Vegas, May 2-6, 1994). Includes exhibitor list, a complete list of all edcuational track programming, special events, registration and hotel information, and other information.
- O'Reilly's Whole Internet Catalog contains a large list of Internet resources.
- Oliver McBryan's World Wide Web Worm searches cyberspace for every available WWW page there is. Find it here first!
- The US Navy Naval Research Laboratory's Network Research Navigator is a good place to start for network navigation in "the vast sea of information that is the Internet."
- UNC's "Internet Expo" includes the Dead Sea Scrolls, Soviet Archives, and Palace of Dioclecian exhibits, plus others.
- The University of Michigan has a Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides which includes resource guides to for all sorts of information to be found around the Net.
- The Free University of Brussels has created the Principa Cybernetica Web to explore compter-assisted solutions to the evolution of collaborative work.
- Norwegian Telecom offers "Teletronikk", a magazine of articles about the Internet, multimedia, VR, you name it.
- "Wired" magazine presents back issues and matters of interest to Internet users.
- Online book publishers and retailers.
- Brandon Plewe presents his Best of the Web '94 nominations. Another good place to browse.
- For general network information, try UTexas' NetInfo; or specifics on IEEE 802.3 -- "Ethernet".
Humanities
- University of West Virginia's On-Line Collection of historical documents.
- An English-to-German, and German-to-English translator!.
- The Ferris State College All-Music Guide, a collection of album information, reviews and ratings.
- UCI's History section.
- The "WebWeavers" (Vancouver, BC, Canada) present their Arts Network for Integrated Media Applications.
- La Trobe University (Australia)'s Art Museum.
- Texas University's Online Exhibits, including the interesting "Texas, Texans, and the Alamo".
- NWU's Jazz Information Server has lots of stuff on jazz, including biographies, for instance that of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington.
- The complete works of Shakespeare (including a searchable index) are available from MIT.
- Australia National University offers ther Art History presentation, including image collections, presenations, and searchable indexes into their collection of online art images.
Science
- The Baylor College of Medicine Genome Center describes the Genome project work.
- The ASTRONOMICALS' compilation of astronomical images and animations. (French and English available.)
- The Astroweb Consortium provides a page with links to Internet resources of use to the Astronomy community.
- The Northwestern University Astronomy Group describes its research and some results.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory presents Views of the Solar System, an educational tour of our solar system, with lots of nice pictures and information.
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Climate Diagnostic Center describes the CDC and climatological data it holds.
- Columbia University offers its Climatalogical Data Catalog, a collection of ocean and atmospheric climate data.
- NASA
- The Historical Archive traces the history of the United States' manned space program. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions are (excellently) documented.
- NASA's Main Information Center provides general information programs, plans, and information.
- NASA's Johnson Space Flight Center includes connections to most of NASA's online information.
- NASA's Langley Research Center describes Langley and its research, and other NASA stuff.
- NASA Presents Astrophysics in Cyberspace.
- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center presents its Webstars includes articles on astronomy, cyberspace, virtual reality, and the HEASARC StarTrax skyview browser.
- The UC Canberra's Chemistry page.
- John Hopkins' Genome Database (GDB) includes a GDB browser to retreive detailed information on genomes, including the "Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man" database.
- This way to UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology.
- U Iowa Department of Radiology's Virtual Hospital contains textbooks, references and other medical information.
- NCAR (The National Center for Atmospheric Research) has information on supercomputing time, NCAR software, projects, and resources (including data on Kuwaiti oil fires, and other atmosphic interests).
- The Naples Institute of Physics has a presentation of its Museum of Physics, including images and descriptions of early scientific instruments.
- The University of Minnesota's Geometry Center presents a Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry, with interactive examples of geometric concepts.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory offers its Physics e-Print archive, containing a number of research papers in Physics and related fields, with a searchable index.
Engineering
Computing
- Association for Computing Machinery list of conferences, calls for papers, ACM periodicals, books, interest groups, member services, and the Colegiate Programming Contest.
- Here's the ACM SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project, which includes a searchable index.
- The Geometry Center presents a gallery of interactive applications, designed to visualize and experiment with 2, 3 or more-d ideas.
- The Astronomical Image Processing System home page.
- NCSA's Digital Information System, contains information and images produced with or in connection with, NCSA. It includes images, data, audio, and soon animations and bibliographic information.
- University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Applied Parallel Programming.
- NASA and U. of Georgia's Cosmic Catalog has a catalog (and ordering information) of about 1,200 computer programs for artificial intelligence, fuild dynamics, visualisation, and other problems.
- The Globewide Network Acadamy (GNA) offers a self-paced class in Object-Oriented Programming using C++.
- Indiana University provides the Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index, a searchable index of Tech Reports from a number of contributing universities.
Computer Vendors
K-12 Education
- The US Department of Education includes a lot of interesting information on teaching and learning.
- Here's the Mathematics Experience Through Image Processing page from U of Washington.
- The East Michigan School of Education presents The Journey North, concerns the Arctic and wildlife migrations.
- The University of Kansas UNITE Group provides an Explorer to off-line resources available to K-12 educators.
- Dan Berlin's K-12 server (that is, its at a K-12 school) is at the Peddie School in Heightstown, NJ. (If a lot of their page looks like this page -- they liked it so they copied it. What larger compliment can be paid?)
Geography
- Digital Relief Map of the US, which can be clicked on for zooming -- Warning! This takes a while to download.
- A list of Geography Resources on the Internet.
- The National Wildlife Refuge System Server.
- Xerox Parc's Map Viewer. (To jump to a Continental US-specific map, press here.)
- The U.S. Bureau of Census has a WWW page, which allows you to look at statistics, services, programs, perform extractions of statistics, even the Bureau Art Gallery!
- Here's the US Geological Survey server. It has information on USGS publications, Geographic Information Systems (GISs), and other geographical resources.
- Lee Liming's (of the University of Michigan) Tourish Expedition to Antarctica details the author's trip to the southern continent, plus general information about it.
Legal Studies
Travel information
Newspapers from across the country
- A collection of college and university newspapers, collected by Eddie Blick from the Journalism Department/News Bureau of Louisiana Tech University.
- The Raleigh News and Observer presents NandONet, with samples from the paper, special events and stories, plus "NandO-X", from its New Media Division.
- The Palo Alto Weekly, published twice a week for residence of Palo Alto and surrounding communities, plus Stanford University.
Sports
Entertainment
- "Underworld Industries" presents What's Hot and Cool on the Web. Good place to see neat stuff that's out there.
- Robert Hartill (of University of Wales, College of Cardiff) has created an incredibly good Movie Database Browser which has a searchable database of movies and television shows, actors, actresses, and so on. Try it!
- UC Berkeley's CinenaSpace concerns itself with all aspects of cinema.
- A page about the television show The X-Files.
- Here's Doctor Fun, daily cartoons. (Note: Graphical interface pretty much required; some of the pictures are very large.)
- CRI-CICB of Rennes, France presents a Space Movie Archive , with about 90 animations, plus an Astronomy page.
- I want my MTV! (run by none other
than Adam Curry.)
- The Raleigh (NC) News and Observer presents their NANDO X Fun and Games page.
- Axel Belinfante at U. Twente, The Netherlands, presents Say... which allows you to type a word or sentence, and have it said by your machine (only works on machines with this capacity, obviously.)
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