C. D. Cantrell's Web Links - The World Wide Web

Useful Web resources

Search Engines

• Access and search the Web through Yahoo
• Metacrawler searches simultaneously with all of the top search engines
• Visit HotBot to search for a page, file or phrase using the Web crawler Inktomi
• JotBot is a compact interface to Hotbot developed on a Macintosh PowerBook
• Search the Web with Web Crawler

Indexes and collections of links

• Library of Congress Index of Web services
• Starting points for Internet exploration compiled by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• California WWW Servers - Sensitive Map
• Harvard Science Resources

Databases

• DejaNews Research Service: Can't find a newsgroup posting that's relevant to your question? Want to see all of someone's recent postings? This site is for you...
• Access to Usenet FAQs (Lists of frequently asked questions, with answers, on many topics)
• The Ultimate White Pages. I'd suggest choosing Switchboard to perform your search.
• NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages. Search Yellow Pages all over the United States for free.
• World Yellow Pages
• National address and ZIP+4 browser
• InterNIC directory and database
• Need to find someone's email address? Try OKRA, a service of the University of California at Riverside
• The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

News

• The New York Times online
• CNN Interactive
• CNNfn financial network (business news, financial markets and more)
• The San Jose Mercury
• Purdue Weather Processor

Maps

• Virtual Tourist World Map
• DeLorme
• The UT-Austin Library's Map Collection
• Virtual Map
• Yahoo! Maps
• How to use a compass

Europe

• Europe Online
• Deutschland (Germany)
• European Patent Office
• La France
• España (Spain)
• L'Italia
• Norge (Norway)
• Rossiya (Russia)
• Sverige (Sweden)
  • The Nobel Foundation
• United Kingdom (Great Britain)
• Virtual Tourist - Europe

Texas

• Dallas County Community College District Home Page
• Dallas Market Center
• INFOMART - Dallas, Texas
• INTELLiCast: Dallas - Ft. Worth - Arlington weather
• North Central Texas Council of Governments
• San Antonio
• FTP connection to the State Purchasing and General Services Commission
• Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
• The University of Texas System
• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas
• Web Texas
• Window on State Government through the Texas Comptroller's Office

U. S. Government

• National Academy of Sciences
• National Academy of Engineering
  • National Academy Press
• Internal Revenue Service, from which you can download tax forms and instructions in PDF format
• Library of Congress
• NSF gopher server
• Office of Naval Research
• Naval Research Laboratory
• Securities & Exchange Commission
• Social Security Administration
• Thomas: Legislative information on the Internet
• The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office has opened its 20-year patent database to searches from the Internet

Web stuff for all platforms

• A WWW FAQ
• History of the World Wide Web
• WWW addresses (URLs and all that)
• Useful HTML tutorials can be found at Pursuing Page Publishing, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of Kansas, and Kevin Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• Carlos' forms tutorial
• HTML validation service provided by Intercon
• CGI, aka the Common Gateway Interface
• Gizmos, an archive of cool lines and buttons