Basic References

Local Sources

• Card catalogs via telnet and web for UNC-CH and area libraries.
• UNC-CH Online Campus Directories. Lookup by name, by email address.
• UNC-CH Electronic Information Service.
• ATN (Academic technology & Networks).
• Campus Computer Labs & Schedules

Good Starting Points

• Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Guides at the University of Michigan.
• EINetGalaxy. Vertical Search engines and browse directories. Galaxy is the original searchable Internet Directory, with the human touch.
• NCSA Internet Resources Meta-Index.
• NCSA's Starting Points for Internet Exploration.
• ibiblio at UNC-Chapel Hill. 
• InterNIC Directory and Database Services, provided by AT&T, partially supported by NSF.

General Reference Works

• William Strunk's Elements of Style.
• Resources for Writers. Documenting electronic sources; and using APA or MLA styles.
• Using MLA format, from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. Includes Basic Forms for ELECTRONIC sources! Great for Comp 96 students.
• Ingenta. See UNC Library page for details.
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries. Linked to over 800 dictionaries in 160 languages.
• The Acronym and Abbreviation Server.
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Free Internet Encyclopedia. Information in a chatty syle with lots of useful links.

Etexts

• Project Gutenberg is a project out of Illinois Benedictine College to distribute lots of public-domain books (e.g., the King James Bible, the Constitution) in ASCII.

Other references not to be without:

• Finding and Evaluating Web sources.  From UC Berkeley.
• Library of Congress. Search their database by title, author, or a combination of words. This will get you publishing information on every book published in the United states.
• United States Code. ALL the federal laws, organized by title.
• Biographies. The home page for the A&E program that offers free biographies on 20,000 people of note.
• CollegeNet. Online source for information about institutions of higher education.
• Peterson's Education Center.

Search Engines

• Google. Uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through much junk. My personal favorite.

Info about the Internet and Web

• About the WWW and Web Community.
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a good place to start.
• WWW and CERN.
• World Wide Web FAQ
• CERN welcome page: European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Where the Web was born.

Internet and Web Statistics

• Nua Internet Surveys. An incredibly useful site about net/web statistics. My favorite
• Internet Domain Survey. : Number of Hosts, Domains, and Nets. Produced by Network Wizards.
• Internet Statistics: Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet. Produced by Matthew Gray, a student at MIT.
• Accessibility of Information on the Web.
• Internet-Index Home Page. Occasional collection of Internet Facts, Numbers, and Statistics complied by Win Treese.

The Internet and the Web: Basic Guides, Tutorials, Information

• Internet Tutorials from the U of Albany Libraries
• Basic Guide to the Internet
• Understanding the World Wide Web
• Conducting Research on the Internet

Web Publishing References

• HTML:
• Beginner's Guide to HTML.
• W3Consortium's HTML guide.
• Ian Graham's very clear HTML guide
• HTML Quick Reference from the WorldWideWeb Handbook by Andrew Ford & Peter Flynn.
• Publishing:
• Web Communications's guide to Web publishing
• Style Guides:
• W3Consortium's style guide
• Yale WWW style guide.
• Other nifty Resources to spruce up your web pages:
• Texture Land! Nearly 200 textures that you can use in web pages, free for individual use.
• Icon Bazaar! Lots of icons that you can use in web pages, free for individual use.
• BigNoseBird. More graphics for your Web pages.
• Yahoo graphics. More graphics and clip art from the folks at yahoo.com.
• Clip Art ready for download.
• Phil Bradley's WEBSITE of HOW-TOs.  Information on search engines, searching the internet, keeping up to date on internet events, free articles on internet searching and web page and web site design.

 

Selecting an ISP

• ISPs. The Definitive ISP Buyer's Guide
• Ultimate ISP list from CNet.
• PC World’s BEST & WORST ISPs (Nov 2000)
• Cnet’s Ultimate ISP list Also: Help Center; and info about: DSL; Cable Modem; Dial-up; etc.
• PC Magazine’s reviews of hardware, software, gadgets; top 100 products and services; and more.

Some "BEST of the WEB"-type sites

• The Intenet Movie Database: It's All Here!
• Lawgirl.com: Site with a sense of humor and lots of handy information about copyrights, trademarks, etc.

Some info about Usenet Newsgroups

• What are Usenet Newsgroups?. All about USENET.

Journal of Electronic Publishing

• Journal of Electronic Publishing. An electronic journal regarding electronic publishing! from the University of Chicago Press.

Marketplace, and General Computer Resources and Info

• C/net Central. LOTS of information, from product reviews to social issues. A great resource.
• Computers.com. A computer marketplace, brought to you by the folks at C/net Central.
• NEW: Walsh's Helpful Hints. Things I find helpful: shortcuts, typical errors, you name it.
• Bookpool. A place for geeks to get really inexpensive computer books. A must to visit.

Main ATN Resource

• ATN's Main Help Page. Links to frequently asked questions, and lots more!

History of Computers and the Internet

• The Charles Babbage Institute. Center for the History of Information Technology.
• Calculating machines. Links to photos and brief descriptions of really old calculating devices.
• Computer History from UVA. Don't miss this one! Photos and descriptions of all sorts of old devices. Includes photos of the the Altair 8800 computer kit!
• The Obsolete Computer Museum. Stop by and reminisce about old computers.

Helpful Productivity Links

• Microsoft Office 2000 Help. Helpful hints, training courses, patches, and other downloads for the Office 2000 suite of applications.
• Surviving PC Disasters.
• Ask Dr. Tech. For about $90 a year, you can purchase 24-hour unlimited telephone tech support for Windows, Office, and Linux. BEST OF ALL, the hold times are guaranteed to be under 10 minutes.

Shareware and Software

• Shareware.com
• UNC Shareware
• Hotfiles from ZDNet
• Pass the Shareware
• Internet software. Heard of tucows? Good site.
• Download.Com
• Jumbo!
• Topdownloads Shareware download site.

Some Computer Magazines

• PC Magazine
• Wired Magazine
• PC World

News and Weather Pointers

Current Events and General News

• DoDots! Download this nifty free software that automatically displays important news, etc., without even loading your browser!
• Slate, e-zine from Microsoft and others.
• The Daily Tar Heel, UNC-Chapel Hill's Electronic Edition of its student newspaper.
• Time Magazine's Home Page.
• CNN Interactive.
• PBS Online.
• ABC News.
• NBC News.
• The Omnivore, a comprehensive, free on-line news service
• AJR NewsLink, links to electronic journals and journalism resources.

Weather

• WeatherInfo Page, from The Weather Channel.
• WeatherNex, the Internet's "premier source of weather information."

Other Media Sites

• UNC Television.
• Career Magazine, including job listings from the Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly. They have lots of other job-hunt-related info, too.
• Listen! On-Line: WUNC's magazine.
• Viacom, with links to all of Viacom's divisions (including Macmillan Publishing, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Prentice-Hall).

Libraries and Subject Directories

• The Electric Library. Provides solutions for many of your library research needs.
• The Electric Library from U of Tenn . Provides descriptions and SEARCH TIPS for the best search engines, leads to subject guides to the Web, and offers links to several sites for more information.
• Berkeley Digital Library .
• Scholarly Internet Resource Collection . From the University of California.
• Internet Public Library from the University of Michigan: a testbed for future libraries.

Phone and Net Directories

• Yellow Pages on the Web
• Internet White Pages
• Switchboard (People & Business directory)
• Online Yellow Pages and Business directory

Miscellaneous References

Government and Legal Resources

• Thomas: legislative info from the Library of Congress
• Law.com, a comprehensive destination for legal information and e-law services.
• FedWorld, another comprehensive list of Federal information.
• U.S. Founding Documents: US Constitution, US Declaration of Independence
• Virtual library law page at the University of Indiana.
• State of North Carolina home page: pointers to the state legislature's gopher and information on the North Carolina Information Highway. Also a pretty good page of starting pointers for new Web users.
• NCINFO, from UNC's Institute of Government, has pointers to a tremendous amount of stuff. Particularly good for state and local resources, although they're strong on the Federal stuff as well.
• UNC's IBIBLIO: The Public's Library: pointers to lots of things, but note particularly the U.S. Government hypertext documents.

Organizations

• ACM home page. Pointers to SIGs and various other ACM-related info. Info on ACM net services, as well.
• Amnesty International

Medical Info

• Medline, the national Library of Medicine online.
• New England Journal of Medicine.

How Tos

• How Stuff Works! Everything from how an airplane flies to how a xylophone makes sounds.
• Ask Me.
• E-How.

COMMERCE ON THE NET

Online Banking

• Wingspanbank. Well designed, worth taking a look.
• Citibank on line.
• NetBank. Has operated exclusively online since 1996.

General Consumer Info

• Welcome to ConsumerWorld.
• Safe Shopping on the Net. Created by the American Bar Association.
• The Tarheel Mall (located in Durham) has some local stuff and an interesting pointers page.
• Brookstone's nifty web site.
• Necties.com. Need a tie?
• Freebies. Lots of freebie offers on the Web. But be careful to read their privacy policies first! Nuthin's ever free.

Helpful Info for Travelers

• Travelocity Gives info on airfares, hotel reservations, car rental, cruises, etc.
• Google Maps. Directions and satellite imagery for the United States.
• Mapquest. Gives door-to-door directions.
• Expedia Maps. Another driving directions service.
• MapBlast. And yet another door-to-door driving directions service. Great directions to/from U.S. airports, stadiums, parks, famous landmarks, shopping.
• Free Trip directions. Town-to-town driving directions.
• Bed and Breakfasts. More than 24,000 B&Bs worldwide.
• Bed and Breakfast feature stories.
• Places to Stay. Includes an array of accommodations.

Fun Pointers

Games

• Games Domain, self-described as "Over 350 Games related links including FAQs, Home pages, 'Net games, Walkthroughs, FTP sites, and loads more."
• The National Budget Simulation Game. Ok, try your hand at it.
• Kevin Bacon Game. The infamous "Oracle of Bacon," from UVA.
• The Ultimate Personality Test.
• How Long Will You Live?
• Quiz Farm Hundreds of personality quizzes, mostly of a humorous nature.

 

 

Silly but fun

• Hamster Dance Page. Click on the Graduation Hampsterdance, the Birthday Hampsterdance, and more. Annoy the person in the next cubicle.
• WebCam Central. Includes about 200 sites. Check out the mile-high cam in Denver. And check out List of Accessible Coke Machines.
• The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project. Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations.
• The Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches. An experiment with your favorite breakfast food.

Food and Drink

• The Godiva Home Page. For chocolate lovers.
• Epicurious, `A "Taste of the Web."
• Ben & Jerry's!
• Get the scoop on making your own ice cream at home.

Music and "Art"

• Official Grateful Dead Home Page.
• IUMA's Music page The Net's first free hi-fi music archive.
• Smilies. The unofficial smilie dictionary. They've got 'em all!
• More smilies and netspeak. Abbreviating while e-communicating.
• Live365. In addition to music, this site provides hosting and directory listing services for people building personal radio stations.
• Bad Movies: The awful, the wretched, and the cheesy.
• The Ultimate Bad Movie Awards.
• Razzies. The Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation.

Other nifty sites

• CyberCafe Guide.

last updated
Fall 2005

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