John December's Internet Web Text offers an introduction to the Internet and summarizes some of its aspects and usage. This document also provides many useful starting points for Internet exploration, including lists maintaned by the same author.

Other useful page to begin your exploration with is Starting Points for Internet Exploration by NCSA.

Other hierarchical resource lists, classified by:

• geographic location (summary) (or full document);
  see also Virtual Tourist, Regional Information and City.Net
• access protocol

Search the Web by keywords

It is also possible to search for information in WWW using keywords. Many different searching tools are collected in comprehensive lists like W3 search engines list and NEXOR's CUSI list.

WWW Search Engines

HotBot W3 Search Engines Altavista Excite InfoSeek Yahoo! MetaCrawler WebCrawler Galaxy DejaNews Webzone Webindex EuroSeek Universities.com: Search Starting Point Internet Resources Meta-Index Special Internet Connections -- Yanoff's list

Magellan Internet Directory Lycos Opentext WWW Worm IAF: Internet Address Finder WhoWhere?: People/Organization PEERS: People/Organization Internet Searching Starting Point: Databases Search The Internet Sleuth: Databases Search SavvySearch Ask Jeeves: Parallel Web Search Inference: Parallel Web Search Bigfoot: Web Search The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue Internet Information Sources EINet Galaxy

• List of WWW Archie Services
• Filez - Software Search
• FTP search

• Shareware Software search@CNET

Gopher

• International gopherspace overview
• All Gopher Servers in the World
• Search Gopherspace using Veronica

WAIS (Wide-Area Information Servers)

• If your client directly supports WAIS: directory-of-servers
• Otherwise you may use gateway