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Being a compendium of links to sites and pages in the World Wide Web that have something to do with free software, computers, or the Web. The links in this file are mostly obtained from announcements posted in Usenet newsgroups. It is not intended to be complete or comprehensive; instead, it is very much like a lightly-edited hotlist, containing things that looked interesting at the time. I use it as a personal reference tool and jumping-off place, but don't expect it to be of use to anyone else.

The Internet & the Web ( [lists], [guides], [articles] )
Computers & Computer Science ( [collections], [documents] )
Sources of Free Software ( [archives] [major] [webware] [icons] ) [other] )
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Information about the Internet and the Web

Blurbs in ``quotes'' are actual quotations from the linked page or its announcement on the net; others are by me.

Comprehensive Lists

Yahoo: ``is a hierarchical hotlist for the World Wide Web.'' People can contribute via a form. Best place to start if you know what category of site you're looking for.
CERN's list of World-Wide Web Servers: The authoritative list for the Web. By domain, so it's best if you want to find a specific site.
The InterNIC central Internet registry: [InfoGuide], [Directory & Databases], [[Registration], {search}
Comprehensive HTTP Site List: Mkgray@mit.edu's new "Wow, It's Big" Comprehensive HTTP Site List. Automatically collected.
The Awesome List: at ClarkNet; essentially an alphabetical list of lists and other things, intended to be ``a hypertext document that journalists and trainers could use easily''.
Commercial servers listing at Open Market: Also includes alphabetical listings
FineArt Forum List of Art Related Web Resources: Said to be a wonderfully comprehensive listing
Books On-line: Including links to listings by Author and Title, as well as pointers to many other repositories. It almost isn't necessary to list anything else.
[Planet Earth Home Page], /Image Map/, /Floor Plan/, /text index/, {Search Engine}: It's big.
The World Wide Web Worm and the Mother-of-all BBS
an automatically updating hotlist database page
Switchboard: a free phone and e-mail directory; their initial database comes from Database America. It turns out they're a division of Coordinate.com, ``the Internet Division of Banyan Systems''.

Guides and Resource Lists

guide to internet ( no iconsno icons, narrative, and several other versions available)

A particularly good Web-friendly hypertext guide to Internet resources. Available in several versions. Some of its highlights include

Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace: Good overview of the Web; mostly all in a single piece with internal links.
Cultural Aspects of the Internet

Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace

Jerry and Dave's Guide to WWW

Guide to the Web

from DEC Network Systems Laboratory, features some interesting and useful resources.

Internet Services List by Scott Yanoff

An extensive (but probably not complete) list of finger daemons, telnet sites, gophers, web sites, and so on.

WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation

A very comprehensive set of pointers to developers' resources, hosted by OneWorld Information Services

Web Developer's Virtual Library

the Web Weavers' Page

More resources for authors, at the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation division of NASA's Ames Research Center

detailed series of notes on writing HTML documents

The WebCrawler Index

The CyberWeb: resources for WWW developers.

The Whole Internet Catalog

The BBC Networking Club

sponsored by BBC Education. Some good pointers, including a guide to the Internet

The Web at NEXOR

Has many interesting resources, including

ALIWEB (Archie-Like Indexing for the Web)
An article on World Wide Web Wanderers, Spiders and Robots
A list of robots

ARPA MADE/DICE Resource Page

The InterNIC InfoGuide

``The primary purpose of [which] is to provide the necessary tools for finding information on the Internet quickly and easily. It also acts as a repository of all sorts of information about the Internet, from gaining access to its history and culture.''

WebWorld

``the first virtual world you can travel in, build in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web.''--Essentially a Web-based MUD.

Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) Forum

In a similar vein, `` an open forum discussion for the design and implementation of a platform-independent language for virtual reality scene design.''

IKE - IBM Kiosk for Education

``is a free information service for IBM users in the higher education community''

Selected U.S. Phone Books Online

(Free; they charge for ads on Web pages)

San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond

A Web guide to the Bay Area.

San Jose Living On-Line Guide

A Web guide to San Jose

Articles

The WWW FAQ list
1994 San Miniato Topical Seminar on: "World Wide Web and beyond in Physics Research and Applications"
Second International World Wide Web Conference
A proposal for X over the Web: ``some ideas on how to architect a system that would allow remote programs (such as X clients) to be activated and render themselves directly onto Web browser screens''
An article on World Wide Web Wanderers, Spiders and Robots
HTML-2.0 spec
A Tutorial on HTML: by Wm. Dennis Horn of Clarkson's Technical Communications Department
A 1-hour slide talk about the WEB: by Dan Wallach, CS Department, Princeton University
Stuff on National Information Infostructure:: for the NII stuff; for general white-house stuff (NII, Performance review, etc)
A paper on LaTeX2HTML: Also points to an interactive control panel which can be used to try out the conversion mechanism on different small examples and see the results.
A report on Online Publishing: by Ron Wilhelm
State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications: by V. Balasubramanian.
Using Tcl to Process HTML Forms: A DEC technical note.
Using WWW to Deliver Complex E-Docs: Mainly about the deficiencies of HTML vs. unrestricted SGML, and some ways of getting around them. Supposed to have active links, but in fact it doesn't.

Computers and Computer Science

Document Collections

Usenet FAQ's in WWW format or here: Presumably derived from the original ascii versions at rtfm.mit.edu
Internet Drafts: Nice presentation, but takes a long time to come up. Try The InterNIC
comp.risks archive
C++ Virtual Library: which hangs off here
Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
DIMUND Document Image Understanding and Character Recognition WWW Server
Collection of Root X Windows: I'm not sure how to classify this. It's a collection of screen dumps of various people's X desktops. Quite odd. But interesting. Find out how people the world over organize their screens.

Individual Documents

comp.object FAQ
Computer Related Repetitive Strain Injury Primer Web page
GRAFICA Obscura: Paul Haeberli's ``compilation of technical notes, pictures and essays'', including some RICOH RDC-2 Images
Inter-Network Mail Guide by Scott Yanoff: though plain text, is a very thorough treatment of how to send mail between any two networks (say, between Genie and Prodigy).
XEmacs (Lucid Emacs) FAQ
SigGraph online bibliography
Computer Science Bibliography mirrored here
Alife Online: The Artificial Life Online/BBS is intended to be a central information collection and distribution site on the Internet for any and all aspects of the Artificial Life endeavor. The system is sponsored by MIT Press and the Santa Fe Institute.
The Gnuplot faq: Gnuplot is a free graph-plotting utility. Excellent.
Data Powers of Ten: From 1 bit to 200 Petabytes. Illustrated.

Sources of Free Software

Archive Sites

/gatekeeper.dec.com/

Major mirror site for almost everything in the Unix world.

/ftp.uu.net/

Archives for Usenet source groups, and more.

The OAK Software Repository (oak.oakland.edu)

mirrors SimTel and others.

UIArchive

Mirrors many places

/ftp.cdrom.com/ and /www.cdrom.com/

Mirror for almost all software that runs on PC's, including all the major Linux sites. Belongs to Walnut Creek CDROM, whose business is selling shareware and freeware. Rapidly becoming my favorite archive site. Has an ftp daemon that supports automatic tar and compress/gzip.

InfoMagic (ftp.infomagic.com)

mirrors the following Linux and Unix(tm) related archives:

Sunsite.unc.edu
TSX-11.mit.edu
The Bogus Distribution
Slackware and Slackware_Source
Wine (Windows Emulator)
Sunacm (Alan Cox Networking Code)
Flagship (Clipper compiler for Linux)
GNU archive from Prep.mit.edu
JE & JF (Japanese Extensions and Japanese HowTo's)
Kernel Sources from nic.funet.fi.

The Big Stuff

(``Big Stuff'' is defined as not merely a single program, but a whole collection of related software, e.g. a framework or system. The line is somewhat arbitrary, but the presence of a comp.soft-sys or comp.infosystems newsgroup or two devoted to the system is a good indication.)

GNU (GNU's Not Unix):

Available from the Free Software Foundation at prep.ai.mit.edu; support and hypertext manuals at Cygnus Support. More info at the DESY GNU Project Overview.

GNU Emacs

has its own FAQ (also here), plus a list of Emacs Implementations and Literature http://www.diku.dk/~terra/ supposedly has information on Emacs for MS-DOG.

GNU software on DOS

DJGPP

The X Window System:

Available from ftp.x.org; info at X Consortium. On the West Coast, ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com. XHibition is an X-oriented conference. For X Toolkit widgets, see the Widget FAQ and the Free Widget Foundation (FWF) Home Page. For the Fresco C++ library, see the Fresco Web Pages, which will be moving to http://www.faslab.com by the end of January.
The XFree86 Project is dedicated to putting a free X system on Intel architectures. There are benchmarks.

TeX and LaTeX

The world's best typesetting system, by Donald Knuth. Available from Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) sites ftp.shsu.edu, ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.

TCL (Tool Control Language) and Tk (an X Toolkit)

an interpretor for a shell-like language that can be embedded in C programs, by Dr. John Ousterhout at UC Berkeley. WWW information is here. The archive for extensions is at harbor.ecn.purdue.edu.

Linux (A free Unix clone)

Available from sunsite.unc.edu, with information from the Linux Documentation Project (mirrored at Infomagic), Linux Links, and the linux.org home page. The Slackware distribution can be found at ftp.cdrom.com. Computers with Linux pre-installed are available from VA Research (formerly Fintronic) in Menlo Park, CA. There is also information about the WINE Windows ``emulator'', and online help for kernel configuration.

The following Linux documentation is online:

Man Pages
Linux Installation and Getting Started (ftp to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/install-guide/ to download the latest version.)

Linux NOW! is a major collection of links.

the Linux Gazette is an online monthly publication. The Linux Weekly News is (surprise!) weekly. There's also the Linux Forum

Russ Nelson has a list of hardware vendors that support Linux.

Red Hat is the Linux distribution I use most.

Caldera describes itself as ``the company who will deliver the power of Linux to business, ... [and] bring commercial accountability and viability to Linux through the release of its Caldera Network Desktop for Internet Access.''

The Debian distribution is ``upgradable incrementally and "in place". This means that users can upgrade individual packages or entire systems when they become available without having to reformat and reinstall.''

Linux for Power Macintosh is a joint venture of Apple and OSF, who have a page on Linux on the OSF Microkernel

For laptops, see Linux on Thinkpads and the Linux Laptop Web site. Fringe Ryder's Corral has a lot of info on who makes which laptop, but not much on Linux.

<a hrefhttp:www.javasoft.com">Java <a hrefhttp:www.javasoft.com">Java and the Gamelan archive

Khoros

``is is a powerful, integrated software development environment that allows users to harmoniously compose and perform a variety of tasks related to image and signal processing, data exploration, scientific visualization.''

PERL and the CPAN archives

at www.perl.com. CPAN is a multiplexer -- it finds you a fast FTP site and redirects you to it.

Ptolemy

``The ambitious objectives of the Ptolemy project include most aspects of designing signal processing and communications systems, ranging from designing and simulating algorithms to synthesizing hardware and software, parallelizing algorithms, and prototyping real-time systems.''

DTP Internet Jumplist
The Ray Tracing Home Page: points to other ray-tracing packages and information. The Ray Tracing Discussion Page is an ongoing discussion to which one can contribute.
Persistance of Vision, also old home, wuarchive: A freeware ray-tracing system with lots of associated goodies. There is also a copy of the User Documentation on the Web, and a few issues of Ray Tracing News have also been webbified.

Webware

And of course, the World Wide Web...: Brought to you from all over the world, with most tools accessible from either the WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation or CERN's list of WWW Software products.
The WWW FAQ list
Web Software at EIT: Free, even for commercial distribution, provided you register and acknowledge the source. Fine with me.
The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Java and Gamelan
MacWeb: an alternative Mac web browser that does forms. WinWeb is also available, in alpha form.
Arena: A browser, still in beta form, that serves as a testbed for HTML3. The only browser I know of that does equations and tables.
HyperTeX: Adding HTML links to .dvi files for typesetting hypertext.
Jigsaw: an HTTP server written in Java
w3new v0.4: Package for creating "what's new" lists.
W3Kit (3d graphics on the Web.)
a guest book: based on e-mail and perl.
LPAGE guestbook: which keeps the script, and the guestbook itself at lpage.com. Bizarre!
Hypermail: An EMail to HTML compiler
mail2html 3.0.0: in this file
Copenhagen SGML Tool (CoST)
TreeLink Home Page: A program that makes graphical maps of HTML.

Icons and other graphics

Icons and Clip art at Yahoo: This listing is up-to-the-minute and extremely comprehensive, with at least 30 entries the last time I looked; I'm not sure why I bother listing anything else, except that they don't have much information about each item, just the bare links.
EFF Graphics Archive
Gizmos and Icons at colargol.edb.tih.no
Graphics for your pages at www-pcd.stanford.edu: Available as a tar file. (They encourage other sites to mirror this collection).
Daniel's Icon Archive (about 5000 of them) at www.jsc.nasa.gov: Available as a tar file. Very well organized, with the ability to view a ``contact sheet'' of each section, which in this case means a simple alphabetical list of icon + name, in link format.
Anthony's Icon Library by Anthony Thyssen: Available as a tar file. (Widely available and archived as AIcons).
Icons Icons at WWW.BSDI.COM
Icons Icons at Rutgers University
Wuarchive Icons Search Wuarchive Icons Search
Images, Icons, and Flags (pointers to other resources)
Icon browser at Department of CS at the University of Pisa
Mosaic Rulesz
pointers: to even more.
Underground Picture Collection
/avalon.vislab.navy.mil/: 3D objects in a variety of formats.

Individual Programs and Smaller Packages

Cryptography

PGP cryptography package, (with hypertext manual) and FAQ. Also see The Cypherpunks Home Page. RSA's home page may provide some additional information. The software itself is available in the US via the Web from MIT.

Also see NCSA httpd/Mosaic: Using PGP/PEM authorization for details on using this stuff in Mosaic. It's supposed to be in Mosaic/X 2.2 and NCSA httpd 1.2.

``You can use the Cypherpunk remailers via a Web interface page... Tools exist to automate the chaining. For details, see [this] remailer page.''

Adam Back maintains a site with a number of tiny cryptographic programs, including the infamous ``rsa in three lines of perl'' .signature file.

SATAN