This document contains hyperlinks to many common Internet-based
information resources.
If you are new to NCSA
Mosaic, the Mosaic demo
document will allow you to explore Mosaic's hypermedia
capabilities; this document focuses on Internet resources in general,
including several different types of information systems that do not
have intrinsic hypermedia capabilities.
Disclaimer: NCSA has no control over any of the resources
referenced by this document. Some or all of these resources may be
unavailable at any time. This is a random sampling of Internet
resources and makes no claim to be general or comprehensive.
Web
Overview: An overview of the World Wide Web, a distributed
hypermedia system developed at CERN in Switzerland. NCSA Mosaic
is a World Wide Web client with additional features.
Web
Project: An overview of the World Wide Web project, headed by
Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
Other Web Documents
Data
Sources By Service: A listing of data sources within
the World Wide Web, organized by information service
(Gopher, WAIS, etc.).
Information
By Subject: A listing of data sources within the
World Wide Web, organized by topic and subtopic.
Web
News: The latest World Wide Web news bulletin.
InterNIC InfoGuide
: A Web server run by the InterNIC; this is a good
place to find general Internet-related information.
NCSA
Mosaic Home Page: The document NCSA Mosaic accesses upon
startup by default; this document tells you what the latest
released version of NCSA Mosaic is at any given time.
NCSA
Mosaic Demo Page: A self-guided tour of the hypermedia
capabilities of NCSA Mosaic.
NCSA
Mosaic "What's New" Page: A day-by-day listing of new
information resources on the Internet available through NCSA
Mosaic.
NCSA
Doc Finder
Quick search-and-jump to any HTML documents on NCSA's web server.
NCSA Home
Page: The home page for the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Other Home Pages: These are some interesting home pages located
all around the world. For the complete listing of home pages,
see the
Web Servers Directory; for new home pages, see the
Mosaic What's New page.
WAIS
Starting Point: WAIS (Wide Area Information System) is a
powerful searching engine in use over the Internet. This
document tells you how to access WAIS servers through NCSA
Mosaic.
Gopher: Gopher is a popular menu-based information system in use
on the Internet.
Gopherspace
Overview: A comprehensive listing of all the known
Gopher servers in the world, organized by continent.
Veronica:
Veronica is a way to search "Gopherspace" for specific
pieces of information.
NCSA
Gopher: The Gopher server for the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications.
PSC
Gopher: The Gopher server for the Pittsburgh
Supercomputer Center.
SDSC
Gopher: The Gopher server for the San Diego
Supercomputer Center.
Original (UMN)
Gopher: The Gopher server at the University of
Minnesota, home of Gopher.
UIUC
Gopher: The central Gopher server at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
UIUC
Weather Machine: The Weather Machine contains
up-to-the-minute forecasts and weather satellite images.
USC
Math Gopher: The Gopher server for the University of
South Carolina Department of Mathematics.
FTP
Sites: This is a comprehensive listing of anonymous FTP
sites. This listing is not being actively maintained; it
is provided as a proof-of-concept. We encourage others to
maintain such a listing and make it available to the network.
Usenet
Newsgroups: This is a comprehensive listing of Usenet
newsgroups available at CERN, where the listing is housed. This
listing is not entirely appropriate for sites other than CERN; it
is referenced here to encourage individual sites to set up such
listings themselves.
Finger
Gateway: This is a gateway to finger, a common utility
program used to obtain information about people on the Internet.
Ph
Gateway: This is a gateway to ph, another program
used to obtain information about people on specific institutions.
HyTelnet
Gateway: This is a gateway to HyTelnet, a
comprehensive index of publicly-accessible electronic library
catalogs.
TeXinfo
Gateway: This is a gateway to a large collection of TeXinfo
documents at Ohio State University.
Other Information Resources
Hyper-G
Gateway: Hyper-G is another Internet-based hypermedia
system; this gateway is located in Austria.
TechInfo
Gateway: Techinfo is another Internet-based
information system (somewhat like Gopher).
X.500 Gateway: X.500 is a Internet-based phone book
service.
Whois
Gateway: Whois is another Internet-based phone book
service.
Other Documents: Here are some additional interesting information
resources not listed above that may be interesting to people
exploring the Internet.
ANU
Art History Exhibit: An exhibit of art history
materials collected and put online by Michael Greenhalgh
at Australian National University.
CyberSight: the central on-line "jumping off" point for alternative information seekers. Their library of topics range from the bizarre, to the downright scary. If you're after information about anarchy, Nirvana, or goofy art, come on over.
Electronic
Visualization Lab: An exhibit of work done at the
Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
NCSA
Access Magazine: A hypermedia version of NCSA Access,
a general-interest magazine published by the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Postmodern
Culture: Postmodern Culture is an edited journal
distributed over the Internet.
Unified CS Tech
Reports: A central index of computer science
technical reports from all around the world.
White
House Papers: A WAIS server containing all of the
papers from the Clinton Administration from Day 1 to
about two days ago.
Internet
RFCs: An archive of Internet Request for Comments
documents, the technical documentation of the Internet.