The purpose of this page is to provide information about the Internet in a WWW-style (kinda friendlier way) to make the myriad resources easier to understand, appreciate, and access.
In the News: Viruses by E-mail: Deceptive Practices and How to Protect Yourself
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| LOCAL STUFF: (that you can't get anywhere else) |
| How to Activate a Domain - How DNS (domain name service) works |
| Netscape Colors Page Codes |
| Special Character Codes and Greek Character Codes for HTML |
| Scott's Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet frequently! |
| - my selected search engines and sites |
| New stuff is marked 
| Last revised: Wednesday, 21-Feb-2018 11:10:20 CST | Links last checked 12/10/04 |
Resources
- GENERAL:
- History of the Internet - a very nice and well illustrated and detailed timeline from the 1940s onward
- NSF and the Birth of the Internet - see National Science Foundation's role on the formation of the Internet
- How Your Computer Works - a one-stop explanation!!!! A must see!!!! (An AFD link)
- Zen and the Art of the Internet - An excellent, but now historical overview of many, but not all, Internet resources (especially outside of the WWW).
- Glossary - Frequently used Net terms defined
- WhatIs Glossary
- Protonic.Com: Fast, free technical support - volunteer techs advise beginners to experts on >10 platforms by email!
- Internet Guide - UK based site
- FOLDEC - Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing - Lots of terms (>3000) [North American mirrors at: InfoStreet, and NightFlight]
- A FAQ on FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions about FAQs. Two versions: [latest] [historical]
- HyperRFC - online RFCs (Requests for Comments) - highly technical!
- The Ultimate Collection Of WINSOCK Software (TUCOWS): Reviews and downloads of Winsock software - a great resource! Now also available for Macintosh, Palm, and Linux platform programs!
- Galt's Best-of-the-Best Shareware - prides itself on selecting the best [obsolete]
- SHAREWARE.COM - Lots of shareware
- ZD Net Software Library - Ziff-Davis shareware site (see software link)
- Download site
- 5 Star Support -Free Technical Advice - on many computing topics
- Programming Resources - Just a set of useful links
- Guide to Computer Game Design Schools
- Domain Name Service - Complicated technology explained in simple terms
- How to Activate a Domain - How DNS (domain name service) works (local content)
- How to Create a Webpage for beginners
- another hosting comparison site
- Web Hosting Report - comparison site for web hosting services -->
- List of Accredited and Accreditation-Qualified Registrars - from ICANN (Paying more is not a trick, paying less is. All have access to the same domain database, so shop around. [For those who like premium prices, please note: the cheapest have to be much more efficient or they would lose money!])
- Network Solutions - (formerly InterNIC) was the first registrar. Now it may be just be one of the most expensive.
- Domain Registration - Register your domain names for only $8.75, transfer them for only $7.75! Free parking, free URL forwarding, free domain name generator software, and more
- Domain Names Registration - site for domain names including news, expiring domains, second hand sales, and deals
- ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (controls TLDs and IP address allocations)
- IANA Country Codes - ccTLD database at Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- The IP Address Guide - Free Online Ping, Traceroute, DNS Lookup, CIDR Geolocation, and HTML Validator - nice!
- Copyrights - who rightfully owns what is on the Net
- AllSiteCafe Internet - lots of additional Internet links and AllSiteCafe.Com - your virtual Internet cafe
- BLOGS:
- VIRUSES, PRIVACY AND SECURITY:
- USENET Newsgroups:
- Usenet Newsgroups FAQ - An overview of the Usenet
- News Reader programs for Windows or Macintosh platforms from TUCOWS
- Google Usenet Archives -- Search for old news items in Usenet archives (formerly Deja News)
- How do I decode pictures? -- Read the FAQ on any of the picture news groups (that's what they're there for!)
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol and Gophers:
- Anonymous FTP FAQ - FAQ on Anonymous File Transfer Protocol
- FTP programs for Windows or Macintosh platforms from TUCOWS
- Access to the OU FTP site looks like it has been curtailed now. It used to be a place to download public domain and shareware programs
- archie FAQ - A program to search FTP sites
- Archie programs are history now. At one time, it was the best way to search the Internet for specific files prior to modern search engines.
- Web-based Archie gateway: Archie Gate - this is a non-functional portal now as Archie no longer is active needed
- Anonymous FTP Sites List provides access information for literally terrabytes (TB) of information! (maybe gone though! This and www.ftp-sites.org do not answer.)
- The gopher was an early evolution of the web, which has now all but passed. The following are principally historical:
- Web Workshop: Gopher - an overview of historical interest, because this precursor to the web is now pretty much extinct [this page from 1998].
- Access to the Mother Gopher: gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu:70 - With connections to other Gophers - sorry, extinct!
- OU's Gopher is now officially extinct!!
- Veronica FAQ - FAQ about the primary search engine for Gopher sites - {Warning: historical significance ONLY}
- VERONICA - almost extinct!!
- EMAIL and LISTSERVs:
- IRC - Internet Relay Chat (written interactive dialogs):
- WAIS - Wide Area Information Systems: (out-dated - superceded by other database architectures - kept out of historical interest!)
- WAIS FAQ - Information about WAIS (Overview) - {Historial: no current significance}
- Searching WAIS Databases - Strategies and methods for finding data {Historial: no current significance}
- Most WAIS now operates through web forms. Special programs are no longer required to access these.
- VIDEO on the Internet:
- Video formats
- Video driver programs for Windows and Macintosh platforms from TUCOWS
- Real Media Player Download Page. Real is a proprietary format, but demo version is free playing files with the following extensions: *.ra, *.ram
- Video conferencing [Historical! there are many rountine successors]:
- First Virtual Communications - CU-SeeMe commercial site [was at URL: http://www.cuseeme.com/]
- CU-SeeMe Net - freeware site for Cornell's CU-SeeMe software --> [was at http://www.cu-seeme.net/]
- The Original CU-SeeMe Fan Site - always has the latest version [till it went extinct. Was at URL: http://www.rocketcharged.com/cu-seeme/]
- WWW - World Wide Web:
- World Wide Web (WWW) FAQ - A modern FAQ for WWW
- Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet - Links to many major search engines and some that aren't. If you know of one, I don't list, email me (srussell@ou.edu)!
- The Scout Report -- What's New on the WWW - a publication of Internet Scout (formerly NetScout) on the WWW and sent by listserv ([originally] sponsored by InterNIC)
- Web Developer Home Page -- On-line WWW magazine
- Download WWW browsers programs for: Windows or Macintosh platforms - This links to the TUCOWS site, which reviews and archives the most recent versions
- About the WWW -- Its history and origin at CERN
- The hierarchy of authority on the Web -- Who's who of a Web site
- Old World Wide Web (WWW) FAQ - A FAQ on WWW from long ago (4 yrs?) -- in the user unfriendly days -- explains why the WWW didn't take off right away! [I posted this originally Dec 1995)
- Security and Privacy on the WWW:
- Cookie Central - what Cookies do - omnibus information gathering mechanism on the Web
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - watchdog organization for electronic freedom, privacy, with encryptation links
- Email Privacy - an email is like a postcard w/o encryption
- StayInvisible.Com - free proxies, news about abuses
- Anonymouse - no software solution to hiding your identity. Visit web pages through Anonymouse
- Anonymizer, Inc. - hides your location, browser, personal identity from most web servers (but costs $)
- MailWasher - spam screening shareware (the expensive ones seem not to work as well!) and their server solution MailWasher Server
- Spam-Blockers.Com for other competing products
- Download programs to find DNS, identity of IP addresses, traces, etc. for: Windows and platforms - This links to the TUCOWS site, which reviews and archives the most recent versions
- Using HTML (= HyperText Markup Language, the language of the Web)
- HTML Resources:
Set up your own Website! [free!!]. Here are some sites I am aware of:
- HTML Editors
- HTML Editors for Windows or Macintosh platforms - at TUCOWS includes freeware, shareware and commercial demos
- HTML Utilities
- Graphics
- CGI (Common Gateway Interface) and Perl Sites
- JavaScript and Java - programmable control of web pages
- JavaScript - browser-side adjunct to HTML
- JScript - Microsoft's browser-side product
- Java - server-side programming
- JavaWorld - Java tips & tricks, software sites, hints for beginners and experts (monthly)
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