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Contents
Meta Resources | Web
Protocols and Standards | Metadata Information
| Structured Information Standards | XML/XSL |
HTML/HTTP | SGML | Programming Languages | 3D Markup | Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) Information |
Other WWW Information Sources and Exploration
Vessels | WWW Conferences |
The International WWW Conferences, 1994- |
Best of the Web Awards | Cool or
Kewel Stuff on the Web | Selected Internet
Information via WWW | General News |
Resource Guides | Search
Tools, Indexes and Navigational Aids | How-To-Search Guides | Search Engine Software | Electronic
Mail | File Formats | Internet Organizations | Internet Consultants | Business on
the Internet | Development and Future of the
Internet | Web Communities and
Portals List
If you are new to the Internet and the Web, here are some information
sources beginning with a few:
Meta Resources
Note to Victoria Telecommunity Network registered users: some of
these sites will not be accessible at all via our Lynx text-only browsers.
- In Site (Gary D. Price)
is an information-awareness service intending to provide access to new Internet
resources.
- Internet
Resources Meta-Index (National Center for Supercomputing Applications
[NCSA], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Internet Scout
Project (Computer Sciences Dept., University of Wisconsin; sponsored by the
National Science Foundation) provides links to The Scout Toolkit,
Net-Happenings and The Scout Report.
- Meta-List
of What's New Pages (Meng Weng Wong, University of Pennsylvania)
- Netpedia: The Solution for Web
Developers (Ambient Technologies) has news about Web technology, a
site-search engine, and links galore to Java applets and Javascript files.
- Open FAQs is maintained by
Thomas Boutell are a series of Frequently Asked Questions
- Starting
Points for Internet Exploration (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications [NCSA], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- WEAV, the Web Enthusiasts
Association of Victoria is located in Victoria, British Columbia, and
members share an interest in working and playing with the Web
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library
(Mecklermedia Corp.)
- Web Weavers
Bibliography is an excellent compilation of links and explanatory
information by Carl E. Snow, Purdue University.
- Web
Weavers Page (NASA, USA)
- WebDeveloper.com (Mecklermedia
Corp.)
- WebReference.com: The
Webmaster's Reference Library (Mecklermedia Corp.)
- webresource.net: "the
ultimate source for webmasters"
- Webtools (University
of Rochester Libraries) is a rich collection of HTML authoring resources.
- The WWW Virtual Library
(Mirror site at Stanford University, California) is the oldest subject listing
of Internet resources and was begun by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C).
- WWWsmith Column
(Linux Journal; formerly WEBsmith Magazine)
Web Protocols and Standards
Two organizations set standards for the Internet and the Web:
- The Internet Engineering Task
Force is the official protocol and standards-development body for the
Internet. Information relating to Web protocols and standards can be found
here.
- The World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) assumed responsiblity for Web standards following its
transfer as a project begun at the CERN Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland, by Tim
Berners-Lee.
Web metadata or data about data,
especially XML/SGML data about Web resources, is
embodied in emerging standards such as the Dublin Core and the W3C's Resource Descriptive Framework
(RDF) and Platform Internet
Content Specification (PICS). RDF is so cutting edge that
the current RDF syntax document (PR-rdf-syntax-19990105), as an example of
its use, will not validate against the HTML 4.0 Document Type
Definition. One of the most interesting free tools for the creation
of Dublin Core (DC) metadata elements in a variety of formats is DC-dot from UKOLN,
University of Bath, England.
Other organizations addressing Internet data transport (not content) issues
include:
- Data Interchange Standards Association,
Inc. is responsible for electronic data interchange (EDI) standards,
especially in the area of electronic commerce
- International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) manages the process of setting standards at the
global level
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Structured Information Standards
The
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a
non-profit international consortium promoting the adoption of
platform-neutral markup languages such as XML, HTML and SGML.
Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Style
Language (XML/XSL)
is a further subset of SGML designed to overcome
many of the limitations of HTML
- Extensible Markup Language
(XML) (Microsoft)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) (W3C)
includes the W3C Recommendation for Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
- What is
XML? compiled by l.c. rees
- XHTML®: The
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (W3C Recommendation 26 January
2000) is "A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0"
- XML.com (Seybold Publications and
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.) is packed with useful and current
information
- XMLephant: The Big XML
Resource (Cardboard String
Media)
- XMLSoftware is an
excellent source of free, shareware, and commercial XML products.
- xmlTree (Wavefront Ltd.)
provides a structured tree-like directory to XML-based Web content.
- XML/XSL Resources (Bryan Van
Hook)
HyperText Markup Language/HyperText Transport
Protocol (HTML/HTTP)
is a subset of SGML
- AnyBrowser.com allows you to
validate your HTML markup as well as simulate how your HTML will appear to
different browsers based on their HTML parsing capabilities.
- HTML Specification Page
(Official) (W3C) includes a section on HTML 4.0 which Microsoft implemented
as "Dynamic HTML" (DHTML)
- HTML Specification Page
(IETF HTML Working Group, maintained by Roy Fielding)
- HTML Writers Guild is an international
organization of Web page authors and Internet publishers. AWARE (Accessible Web Authoring
Resources and Education), an initiative of HWG, promotes universally
accessible Web sites.
- HTTP (Hypertext Transport
Protocol): specifications and development information can be found at this
site at the University of California, Irvine, maintained by Roy Fielding.
- HTTPD
Servers List contains comparisons and links to information about all known
publicly available httpd daemons. The list was compiled and maintained by
Daniel LaLiberte, NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Index DOT Html
and Index DOT Css by Brian Wilson is a reference tool on HTML and
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Introduction
to HTML and URLs (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
- WebCom HTML Resources Guide
- XHTML: The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
is HTML 4.0 as an XML 1.0 application
Standardized General Markup Language (SGML)
- Architag University, formerly SGML
University, is based in Englewood, Colorado
- SGML/XML Resource Library (POET
Software)
- The SGML/XML Web Page
by Robin Cover at OASIS
Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Style Language (XML/XSL) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) are subsets of SGML.
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
A URL, also referred to as a Web address, is the mechanism by which the
HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) locates an
Internet/Web server.
Programming Languages
are used on the Web to perform actions that are otherwise impossible to
execute in a markup language. Due to the enormous volume of information on
these major languages, only a few selected sites are listed.
Java, JavaScript and ECMAScript
Java is a creation of Sun
Microsystems,
JavaScript is a creation of
Netscape Communications
Corporation, and ECMAScript
or ECMA-262 is a vendor-neutral
version of
Netscape JavaScript and Microsoft JScript
maintained by the
European Computer Manfacturers
Association (ECMA), Switzerland. Large JavaScript libraries are found
at the JavaScript Source and
JavaScript
World. Microsoft J++
is a Microsoft implementation of Java under license from Sun Microsystems.
Perl
is an interpreted language and popular in UNIX computing
environments. The Perl Institute is
a good starting point, as is CPAN,
the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, once you know what to look
for.
Visual Basic and VBScript
are Microsoft
products.
3D Markup
3D Markup refers to text-based files that describe three-dimensional
objects or scenes, static or animated, for display on Web sites. As of
November 1999 there are two such 3D Markup products: 3DML and VRML.
3DML
3DML was developed by Flatland.com.
The company provides a wide variety
of tools for building 3D Web sites on the fly (on the spot) with no need
to construct or model 3D objects. 3DML is very similar to HTML, so serious
codehounds can go even further with 3DML than through the automated
building tools on the Flatland Web site.
Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML)
VRML is the international standard for the storage and exchange of 3D
objects and data models known as worlds.
- VRML97
Specification (VRML Consortium) is functionally equivalent to VRML 2.0
- Focus on Web3D
(Sandy Ressler's Guide at About.com)
- VRML
Repository (Web3D Consortium, formerly managed by the University of
California, San Diego)
- VRMLSite Magazine
- Web3D Consortium (formerly the
VRML Consortium)
Other Web Information Sources and Exploration
Vessels
WWW Conferences
The Internet Conference
Calendar (Automatrix, Inc., Rexford, NY) offers announcements of
conferences, seminars and other public events (commercial or otherwise)
pertaining to the Internet and Web.
NOTE: Except for the International WWW Conferences, this section was
abandoned in 1995; the links were last checked and
corrected on 1998 05 26.
The International WWW Conferences, 1994-
- Proceedings of the First
International Conference on the World-Wide Web, Geneva, Switzerland, May
25-27, 1994, courtesy of Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
- WAIS Index to
Proceedings of the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web,
courtesy of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- Proceedings of the
Second International WWW Conference '94: Chicago, Oct. 17-20, 1994
- Second
International WWW Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago, Oct. 17-20,
1994
- Third International
WWW Conference '95: Technology, Tools, and Applications, Darmstadt,
Germany, Apr. 10-14, 1995
- Fourth
International WWW Conference: The WEB Revolution, Boston, Mass., Dec.
11-14, 1995
- Fifth International WWW
Conference, Paris, France, May 6-10, 1996
- Sixth International WWW
Conference, Santa Clara, California, April 7-11, 1997
- Seventh International WWW Conference,
Brisbane, Australia, April 14-18, 1998
- Eighth
International WWW Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 11-14,
1999
- Ninth
International WWW Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 15-19,
2000
National Conferences, 1995 Only
- AusWeb95
Information: Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia, Apr.
29-May 2, 1995
- WWW National
Conference: Internet Multimedia Information, Minho University, Braga,
Portugal, July 6-8, 1995
- ACCESS '95 - World
Wide Web Conference on Gateways and Publishing, Wu Conference Centre,
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, Oct. 23-25, 1995
Best of the Web Awards
Cool or Kewel Stuff on the Web
Formerly World-Wide Web Weirdness
Selected Internet Information via WWW
This list is not exhaustive and is only intended to highlight a few of the
information resources about the Internet available on the Web.
GENERAL NEWS
- CIO WebBusiness (CIO
Communications Inc.; formerly WebMaster Online)
- Current Cites
(Library, University of California, Berkeley)
- Cyberspace Report
is issued by KUCI (88.9) FM Radio, Irvine, California
- EDUPAGE
(EDUCOM)
- INFOBAHN: The Magazine of Internet
Culture (Postmodern Communications, Inc.) is no longer published, but historic
information is available and a new publication are promised for 1998.
- Information
Society News (IS News, Information Society Project Office, European
Commission)
- Internet Research,
ISSN 1066-2243 (MCB University Press, UK)
- Internet Resources
Newsletter (Heriot-Watt University Library, Edinburgh, UK)
- internet.com (Mecklermedia Corp.,
Westport, CT) contains links to all other publications issued by Mecklermedia.
Useful links to Internet resources can also be found here.
- Internet World (formerly Web Week)
(Mecklermedia Corp., Westport, CT)
- internetnews.com (Mecklermedia
Corp.)
- InterNIC News
published between April 1996-March 1998; contains searchable InterNIC News
Archive of all issues.
- NetCetera ISSN: 1078-7593
(Verio Northwest Inc., Bellevue, Wash.)
- Netsurfer Digest
(Netsurfer Communications Inc.)
- Netsurfer Tools (Netsurfer
Communications Inc.)
- The Network
Observer (Dept. of Comunication, University of California, San Diego)
- Scout Report
(InterNIC Information Services)
- Telecommunications Electronic
Reviews ISSN: 1075-9972 (American Library Association)
- Truthnet E-zine (ISSN 1209-1693,
Truthnet Publishing)
- Web Review (Songline Studios, an
affiliate of O'Reilly & Associates)
RESOURCE GUIDES
The Unofficial Internet
Book List maintained by Kevin Savetz is an outstanding resource for
tracking down books and other printed resources about the Internet.
Web Awareness: Knowing the
Issues (Media Awareness Network, Canada) assists students, parents,
educators and librarians in evaluating Internet/Web resources.
- The Big
Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Adam Gaffin (served by Dept. of
Mathematics Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhouse University, Halifax, NS)
- The Argus Clearinghouse (Argus
Associates, Inc.) -- formerly The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet
Resource Guides
- Internet Electronic Library at SFU
(Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC)
- [Go Surfing]
Internet Resources (Neil Enns, Brandon University, Brandon, MB)
- Guide to the Canadian
Information Highway (Gladys We, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC)
- CMC Information Sources:
The December List (John December, December Communications, Inc.) is a
substantial compilation arranged by topics of documents and Internet sites
pertaining to communications through computers
- Internet Information
Station (Victoria Telecommunity Network)
- The Newbies Guides for the
New and Old User by Steve Franklin includes links to technical information
and software archives. Former title: "The New (and Old) User's Guide to
the Net"
SEARCH TOOLS, INDEXES AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS
How-To-Search Guides
- A Search Engine for Your
Site (Edwin Hayward) is a guide by category to different types of
search engines.
- Search Engine Watch
(Danny Sullivan, Editor, Mecklermedia Corp.) tracks developments in the
world of search engines and contains a how-to-search section.
- SearchTools.com: Search
Tools for Web Sites, Intranets and Portals (Search Tools Consulting)
- Web Search is an About.com
Guide by Chris Sherman with lots of how-to information.
Local (BC) Indexes and Guides
The Rest of the Net
- About.com
(About.com, Inc., formerly The MiningCo) hosts "expert" sites on a wide
variety of topics and includes a search engine
- AcademicInfo Educational Resources and Subject Guides
- ALIWEB (Archie-like
Indexing of the Web) (NEXOR, Nottingham, UK)
- all4one Search Machine
(easyPAGE Internet Services)
- All-in-One Search Page
(Created by William D. Cross)
- Allthesites.com (CISP,
Inc.) uses the FAST search technology.
- Anywhere.ca Canadian Search
Engine and Directory - listing over 75,000 Canadian Websites
- AllTheWeb.com see FAST Search
-
AltaVista (Digital Equipment Corp.) and
AltaVista Canada
- ANZWERS (Australia and New
Zealand Web Enquiry Research System) also offers world-wide Web searching
(OzEmail Pty Limited)
- Ask Jeeves
and Ask Jeeves for Kids (Ask Jeeves, Inc.)
are metasearch engines that do not rely on other search engines. Ask Jeeves
helps you formulate your searches for the most effective results.
- The BigHub.com offers parallel
searching of several other search engines. The BigHub.com Megasearch engine
is based on the Internet Sleuth search engine (no longer exists as a separate
site, 2000.02.29).
- C4 / see for, total search technology
(Cyber Networks Inc.), is customizable through a free account and offers
free e-mail
- CompletePlanet: The Complete
Source for Search Engines and Databases (BrightPlanet.com LLC). This site
searches for databases, not Web content.
- DeepWeb.com (Quigo Technologies,
Inc.) - not operational as of January 2002 and based on the preview
this search engine may not live up to the company's promises.
- devSEARCH: The search engine for
the people who build the web (Project Cool Inc.)
- DirectHit
(AskJeeves, Inc.)
- Dogpile:
meta-search of several Web search engines, Usenet search sites and two FTP
search tools
- dot com directory
(Network Solutions) includes Canadian individuals/business addresses
with zoomable maps
- Dustcloud
Media Search Engine searches for multimedia sources on the Web
- Eureka! Internet Search
Engine
- EuroFerret (Muscat Limited)
offers multilingual searching of European-hosted Web pages
- Excite (Excite
Inc.) offers its famous search engine and interactive, customizable guide to
the Net
- FAST
Search (AllTheWeb.com, FAST Search and Transfer ASA, Norway)
-
1stHeadlines
- Forum One (Forum One
Communications Corporation) allows you to search for online discussions
groups or forums; a guide to forums by subject matter is available.
- 4anything.com (4anything.com,
Inc.) resembles AltaVista
-
GO.com (formerly InfoSeek) offers its famous search engine and a
customizable guide to the Net
- Google (Google Inc.) uses
its proprietary PageRank{tm} technology to rank pages according to
the number of times they are linked to. Search Canadian listings at Google.ca.
- GoTo.com (idealab!) was formerly the
World-Wide Web Worm developed by Oliver McBryan
- Great Canadian
Links (Premier-Hosting.COM, Maine, USA)
- Highway 61 MetaCrawler (The Virtual
Mirror, Inc.)
- HotBot (Wired Digital, Inc.) includes
its famous search engine and a Net guide, along with special links to
Wired magazine
- iBoogie Metasearch Engine -
includes a "DeepWeb" search option as well as a subject
directory/guide to Web content which appears to be based on the
Open Directory Project.
- InfoJump: Information for the
Masses
- InfoSeek Ultra (InfoSeek
Corp.) searches the Web, news, companies and Usenet
- IntelliScope
Search (Inso Corporation) allows searches of selected search engines,
review sites and Usenet newsgroups
- InvisibleWeb.com: The
Search Engine of Search Engines is a database of Web sites and a
directory of sites that are "invisible" to automated search engine agents
(IntelliSeek, Inc.)
- Ixquick Metasearch calls itself
the "world's most powerful metasearch engine"; in addition to text, MP3
audio files and pictures can be searched
- Knowledge Discovery Mine: Data
Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources Index (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and
Michael Beddows)
- Librarians' Index to the Internet is "By
Librarians, for Everyone" and consists of a search engine and a
subject directory
- LinkStar Business Directory
(HotOffice Technologies, Inc.)
- LookSmart (LookSmart International
Limited) uses the AltaVista search engine and includes a subject directory
- Lycos (Lycos, Inc.) offers its famous
search engine and the ability to personalize its look, along with Web guides on
various topics
- Magellan Internet Directory (The
McKinley Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Excite Inc.)
- Mama: The Mother of All Search
Engines (Mamma Systems Inc.) is a metasearch engine.
- MavicaNet
- MegaSpider - Searching the Search
Engines for You!. Note: This is the same product as NotBot.com
and 37.com (37 Search Engines).
- MetaCrawler (go2net, Inc.) offers
its famous search engine and a Net guide geared to personal interests (weather,
career, business, people-finder)
- MetaFind is part of
Dogpile
- metamend.com creates metatags
containing keywords appropriate to your Web site's content. Links can be
submitted for free.
- The MiningCo. is now About.com
- MonkeySweat features an
affiliate program for Webmasters.
- MultiCrawl Parallel Search
Engine
- Multimeta: The Meta Search
Engine (Multimeta and Lengua Translations) features multilingual
search capabilities
- NetGuide Live (CMP Media Inc.)
- NetSearcher: The Search Engine
for Internet Professionals (Mecklermedia Corp.)
- NewsBlip: A
Search Engine for
News
- Northern Light Search (Northern
Light Technology LLC) provides a Web search engine as well as the ability to
search a "Special Collection" of 4 million articles exclusive to its
site
- oingo: "we know what you
mean", claims to be the first meaning-based search engine (Oingo,
Inc.)
- OneKey: The Smart Search Engine (JA
Enterprises, LLC )
- Open Directory
Project (Netscape
Corporation) appeals to the Internet brain in us all -- become an
editor and contribute your expertise
- LiveLink Pinstripe (Open Text
Corporation) replaces the Open Text Index and is geared to the business user
- PeekABoo (Tell America!, LLC),
offers trademark services, information & a travel directory
- Pinakes: A
Subject Launchpad (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a
catalogue of subject catalogues and well worth investigating.
- PowerCrawler: Internet Search
& Directory (Powercrawler.com)
- ProFusion (ProFusion, LLC,
licensed from the Center for Research, Inc., University of Kansas)
- Project
Aristotle{sm}, hosted by CyberStacks{sm}, is a unique, cutting-edge
collection of search engines and navigational aids.
- Raging Search from AltaVista
- Savvy Search (Parallel Internet
Search Engine) (SavvySearch Limited)
- Snap (Snap,
LLC) combines a search engine and directory
- Starting Point: MetaSearch (Starting
Point LLC) includes a search engine, Net guide and a customizable look
- SurfWax (VORT Corporation)
- Teoma
- TotalNEWS
- Vivisimo.com
- WebCrawler (Excite,
Inc.) features the famous search engine originally developed by Brian
Pinkerton, University of Washington, Seattle, along with a Net guide
- WebTop.com (The
Dialog Corporation)
- Wisenut
- World Wide Web Yellow Pages
(Macmillan Computer Publishing [MCP.com])
- xRefer.com is "the Web's
reference engine" with full-text searchable online reference works
from reputable publishers
- Yahoo!, Yahoo!
Canada, and Yahooligans!: The Web
Guide for Kids
Search Engine Software
These products run on your local PC and allow you to search the host
search engine database. Some of these products can also be set up to
index files on your local PC.
ELECTRONIC MAIL
- CAUCE (Coalition
Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) is a lobby group attempting to stop
e-mail spamming (junk e-mail)
- Liszt (Scott Southwick) includes
LISTSERV@ listproc@, and majordomo@ mailing lists in its database and topical
directory
- Publicly
Accessible Mailing Lists Another URL for connecting to a variety of mailing
lists.
- tile.net/lists allows you to search
for LISTSERV mailing lists by topic, or to view information about a list if you
know its name.
FILE FORMATS
INTERNET ORGANIZATIONS
- Alliance for Public Technology (Washington,
DC): a consumer advocacy organization for the information age
- Alliance for Technology Access
promotes universally accessible Web sites for the disabled.
- AWARE (Accessible Web Authoring Resources and
Education) is managed by the HTML Writers Guild
- Canadian Association of Internet Providers
(CAIP)
- British Columbia Internet Association
- Canadian Internet
Registration Authority as of June 2000 will be assuming
responsibility for registering Internet domain names previously
registered on a volunteer basis at the University of British Columbia
by members of CDNnet. CDNnet is now known as Webnames and as of June 2000 is the only registry
service for obtaining a .ca domain name. Payment is required.
- CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email)
- The Censorware Project is "a
group dedicated to exposing the phenomenon of censorware" meaning they
target products such as Cybersitter, Cyber Patrol, SurfWatch and the
PICS system. Date updated: 2002-04-20.
- Clearinghouse for Networked
Information Discovery & Retrieval
- Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility (Palo Alto, CA)
- Digital Opportunity Task Force
(DOT Force, United Nations Development Program and World Bank) was
established to address the global digital divide.
- Electronic Frontier
Canada: contains a comprehensive list of related organizations, including
its US counterpart, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation
- Electronic Information Privacy
Center (EPIC, Washington, D.C.) was established in 1994 as a public
interest research center on issues surrounding privacy and computers
- Global Internet Liberty Campaign is an
international organization advocating freedom of expression and protection of
privacy on the Internet
- Information Highway
Advisory Council (Canada)
- Internet Architecture Board (Internet
Society technical advisory group)
- The Internet Archive (San
Francisco, CA) is a private organization dedicated to preserving and
providing free access to Internet/Web content, including multimedia
resources such as motion picture and video.
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is
being reorganized as an international non-profit society to better reflect the
Internet community (press release, June 5, 1998)
- Internet Engineering
Task Force (via its
Secretariat at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, VA)
- Internet Research Task Force
- Internet Society (Reston, VA)
- Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies
- Webnames, formerly known as
CDNnet (http://www.cdnnet.ca), is a user-pay registry service for
obtaining .ca Internet domain names.
BRITISH COLUMBIA & SELECTED LISTS OF INTERNET
CONSULTANTS
Use The Internet
Phonebooth (VTN) to find Internet Consultants via the YellowPages or other
Net directories.
Business on the Internet
DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
- CANARIE Inc. is a non-profit
consortium guiding the development of Canadian advanced networking
technologies; its primary role is coordinating the development of
CA*net. Jump to Canadian Internet Registration
Authority
- Center For Intelligent Information
Retrieval (CIIR) (University of Massachusetts) describes advanced
information retrieval software
- Final Report of the
Information Highway Advisory Council (Industry Canada)
- Internet2, the US-based
next-generation Internet, is currently in
experiment mode through over a hundred universities and research sites.
Links can be found on the Internet2 site to the Abilene Project and
international participants such as CANARIE.
- LIVE.COM is the commercial
application of the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) portion of the Internet.
Information on multicasting/livecasting can be found on the LIVE.COM
site.
- National Broadband Taskforce
(Industry Canada) is charged with developing a solution for providing
broadband
(high speed) Internet access to all Canadians by 2004. Its final report,
The
New
National Dream
: Networking the Nation for Broadband Access, was
released on June 18, 2001.
The Rapidly Changing Face of
Computing Technology Journal (RCFoC) is a weekly e-magazine from
Compaq Computer Corporation
Realizing the
Information Future (National Academy Press, USA)
Regulating
Information Networks by Andrew Cosgrove et al examines the role of the
US National Information Infrastructure (NII)
The
Routing Arbiter Project (Merit Network and University of Southern
California Information Sciences Institute)
The White House (Washington, DC) Web page on the
National
Information Infrastructure Advisory Council contains a link to the
KickStart Initiative of
the Benton Foundation which the NIIAC chose to continue its work
Some of these "communities" provide free Web space, e-mail, chat and
other services in exchange for your personal information. This allows the
community host service to advertise products via your Web site through
pop-up banner ads (GeoCities uses this method) or through direct mailing.
If you are uneasy about releasing personal information that may be resold
without your knowledge or permission, you should not join one these
communities.
Created and maintained by David Mattison. Suggestions for inclusion in this
page can be mailed to
(aa003). Specify the file "www.services.html" in your message.