Alta Vista: Main Page
The Alta Vista Web index has more than 21 million Web pages with 10 billion words. It is easily the largest and best database of Web pages on the Internet. You can search with quotes, Boolean logic, and other methods. You can also use this index to read newsgroup messages.

SavvySearch
SavvySearch is a meta-search engine that searches three to five search engines at the same time. SavvySearch has a list of 19 search engines it accesses, including Alta Vista, OpenText, InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Excite.

Search.com
c|net's search.com Web site is a link station of more than 250 search engines. At search.com, you'll find every major search engine on the Internet. You can access the search engines alphabetically or by subject categories such as arts, business, computers, education, finance, government, legal, news, and Usenet. At search.com, you can even search for the search engine you want to use.

The Internet Pearls Index - SoloTech Software
This is a great link station for beginners. The site provides more than 380 links to some of the best starting points on the Internet. The site includes links to search engines, Internet guides and tutorials, What's New catalogs, online computer magazines, HTML and Web publishing resources, graphics for your Web site, and selected links from the World Wide Web Virtual Libraries.

Internet News

The NandO Times
The NandO Times is produced on the Internet by North Carolina's News & Observer. NandO Times articles are updated throughout the day and include information from both the Reuters news agency and the Associated Press. The online newspaper includes excellent sections devoted to business and information technology.

Web Review: Net Daily News
Web Review's Net Daily News is a great online news source that concentrates on Internet and computer news. The site offers several up-to-date news stories each day, a column called Web Addict by Wes Thomas, and Internet Newstalk, a talk column in RealAudio where Reporter Stephen Pizzo and Commerce Editor David Sims read and discuss Internet headlines and trends.

Computer News Daily
This news source produces several articles each day that concentrate on the computer industry. The articles cover subjects like Internet news, trends in the computer industry, and announcement of new products. Computer News Daily also includes E-mail articles by Microsoft Corporation's Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates, special features and columns, and live chat and discussion groups.

FT: Technology News
This Web site is part of the Financial Times of London site. FT: Technology News publishes one in-depth article each day on the financial implications of new technology. The site also provides hypertext links to the artlces appearing in the last five days.

PointCast Home Page
The PointCast Web site is the home of PCN, a free Internet news service that delivers news in six channels covering general news, company statistical charts, stock quotes, weather, sports, and various industries. PCN allows you to modify its channels to fit your personal interest, and then presents news in two formats: as a screen saver called "SmartScreen," with clickable news headlines and tickertapes of stock market quotes and sports information, and as the PCN Channel Viewer.

Internet Tools and resource site

The URL-minder: Your Own Personal Web Robot!
URL-minder is a Web robot that periodically searches a URL for you and sends you E-mail if it detects any change to the URL file. This is a great way of keeping track of your favorite Web pages and testing access to your Web site. URL-minder's best use is for ongoing searches. You can conduct a search on your favorite search engine, copy the URL from the Location box, and then have URL-minder conduct the search for you about once a week - that's right, it does ongoing searches for you and E-mails you when it gets a new hit!

Research-It!
This Web site is a one-stop search station of more than 20 reference search engines. Research-It! provides direct access to dictionaries, quotations, language translators, geographical tools, stock quotes, and shipping information.

Hypertext Handbook: Glossary of Terms
The Hypertext Handbook Web site is a great quick reference resource for understanding the Internet. The Web site includes sections on hardware, software, and techno-babble. You can find definitions of more than 100 Internet jargon words, view charts on bandwidths, learn about colors in the Color Selection Table, and even make links to other computer and Internet - oriented reference sites.

EXPOguide Show
At the EXPOguide Web site you can find information about literally thousands of trade shows, conferences and exhibitions. The EXPOguide Web site includes a search engine that you can use to search the database alphabetically or by date, location or keyword. You can also post information about your conference or trade show at EXPOguide.

tile.net/listserv
Tile.net is a Web site designed to make LISTSERVs easy to find. The Tile.net site offers several ways to search through a database containing thousands of listings. You can search Tile.net by description, name, popularity, subject, sponsoring organization, or host country.

The Father of Shareware
This Web site is a great resource if you're looking for shareware. The site includes links to just about every important shareware site on the Internet. It's also a great information source for shareware authors.

The World Factbook 1995
The World Factbook contains a breakdown of information about every nation on earth. You can find an overview of a country's economy, including figures on purchasing power, growth rate, inflation rate, budget, exports, imports, and commodities. You'll also find facts about natural resources, population, environment, and even climate and terrain.

SBA: Small Business Administration Home Page
The SBA Web site is a great resource for people wanting to start or expand a small business. The site provides information and contacts to loads of free government assistance including business workshops, training, counseling, and management. And the SBA has one of the best business hotlinks list on the Internet.

PostMaster - Announce Your URL Everywhere!
The PostMaster Web site is a posting service that helps you submit your company's home page information to more than 256 catalogs, directories, and other Internet resources. By filling out one form, you can submit your Web site information to more than 100 small directories and hotlists, as well as the major Internet catalogs like Yahoo!, Lycos, GNN Whole Internet Catalog, and WebCrawler.

The International PGP Home Page


PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a military grade encryption algorithm developed by Phillip Zimmerman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can use the PGP program to secure any type of data transmission.

BigBook Directory Search
BigBook is a free yellow pages directory that combines a comprehensive U.S. business database with nationwide, street-level maps to create a simple, graphical way of finding basic contact information and the location of more than 11 million businesses in the United States. Each BigBook company listing provides the company's name, an organization category, address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and street map location.

Kids Stuff

The Mad Scientist Network
Washington University maintains this Web site where you can ask questions about anatomy, physics, astronomy, chemistry, computer science and other science subjects. Questions to The Mad Scientist Network are fielded by science educators and researchers. This site is available for teachers, students, and the World Wide Web community.

Nye Labs Online
Bill Nye is devoted to making science fun. At the Nye Labs Online Web site, you'll find the demo of the day where kids can get directions to fun experiments that they can perform. The Web site also includes a list of Bill's favorite science books, a science chat room, and the Goodies area where you can download sounds, movies, and photos.

Newton's Apple
The Newton's Apple Web site provides detailed explanations of more than 70 topics that were presented on the popular PBS program. Subjects cover everything from hang gliding to infrared light, and each topic provides an activity, insights to the topic, a vocabulary, resource references and a special section called "Try this."

You Can with Beakman & Jax
The book series You can with Beakman & Jax was the inspiration for this Web site and the popular television series Beakman's World. The site provides fun and innovative explanations to questions like: What is 3-D?, How do Bar-codes work?, and Where do Goosebumps come from? Each answer includes graphics and a practical experiment that kids can perform to help them understand the principles behind the answer.

The Nine Planets
This Web site provides a multimedia tour of our solar system. The site includes details on the sun, each of the nine planets and their moons, and other celestial objects like comets, asteroids, and meteors. The Nine Planets features photographs and movies from NASA spacecrafts and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Nine Planets also provides a glossary of astronomical terms and sound clips from Holst's The Planets.

The NASA Home Page
The NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) home page is a great place to learn about space. The NASA@Today link provides information about space shuttle missions, astronauts, special events, pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope and the space shuttles. There's also a question and answer section that covers everything from space flight to UFOs.

MayaQuest '96
The MayaQuest Web site tracks the adventures of a team of five explorers as they bicycle to archaeological sites of the ancient Mayan civilizations in Mexico and Central America. MayaQuest includes photos and movies of excavations, talks with on-site archaeologists, E-mail forums, and other features.

The JASON Project
This Web site is part of the JASON Project, an annual scientific expedition of the seas and oceans of the world that provides original curriculum for grades 4 through 8. The Web site includes details of past expeditions and allows students to take part in current expeditions through live, interactive programs.

The Dinosauria
The University of Berkeley's Dinosaur Hall Web site is a great place to learn about dinosaurs. The site dispels myths about dinosaurs and includes a section called Dinobuzz that answers basic questions about dinosaurs. You'll also find a wonderful Taxon list that provides the scientific names of species and links to detailed information and graphics on the species.

Chemicool Periodic Table
This Web site is a clickable periodic table that makes understanding the elements easier. The table provides information like atomic numbers, melting points, specific heat, appearance, characteristics and more and is color-coded so you can quickly determine element groups like the Nobel gases, alkali metals and halogens.

Yahooligans!
Yahoo! has a great new Web site - Yahooligans! - that's designed for kids 8 to 15. The Web site includes an entire section devoted to Web sites about science. In Yahooligans' Science and Oddities section, you'll find more than 270 links to Web sites covering 20 different science categories including airplanes, anthropology, biology, chemistry, geography, geology, oceanography, space and technology.

Serious Fun Stuff

The Postcard Store
The Postcard Store is a great site where you can send postcards to your friends. The store offers a rack of postcards that includes paintings, photographs, contemporary art and graphics by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Jan Vermeer, and Howard Rheingold. You can also include a personal message on each postcard you send.

The Cyrano Server
This Web site is inspired by the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, a great swordfighter and poet in French literature who believed himself too ugly to every win the love of a woman. The site supports those "shy or unimaginative" people who are unable to tell that special someone how they feel. Just fill in a few descriptive words about your loved one, and the Cyrano Server will write a flowery love letter for you.

The Dockingbay
The Dockingbay is a space age, online maze by John Nilsson. The goal of this game is to work your way through the space station and find the desktop in John's private quarters. Along the way, you'll pick up objects, read postings, and look for clues that will help you. Good luck!

TV Bytes: WWW TV Themes Home Page
This Web site gets our top rating for play value. The TV Bytes site lets you download the theme songs of more than 800 television shows from the 1950's through the 1990's. The site's categories include comedy, drama, action/adventure, science fiction, westerns, and cartoons.