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Good Places to Start Browsing

The problem with listing URLs in printed documents is that they tend to go out of date, move and so on. We have listed a few here that at the time of writing were definitely there, interesting and timely. New technology in the WWW will fix the problem of moving servers, but until then a lot of manual intervention/management is required.

UK ones include

The authors'
See especially the map driven UK tour:

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/index.html

The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

BBC including the world service

http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/

CH4 (includes transcripts of science programs)

http://www.cityscape.co.uk/channel4/

General information services include:

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

MIT Campus-Wide Information Service

http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/

O'Reilly and Associates
http://gnn.com/ora/

Introduction to Programming Using C++
by Marcus Speh, Germany Syncrotron

http://info.desy.de/gna/html/cc/index.html">

Sports Information Service
by Eric Richard, MIT

http://www.mit.edu:8001/services/sis/sports.html

Hi-Tech Companies

Hewlett-Packard

http://www.hp.com

Novell, Inc.

http://www.novell.com

Sun Microsystems, Inc

http://www.sun.com

U. Pennsylvania's Cancer-related information
including news, texts, studies, and multimedia exhibits.

http://cancer.med.upenn.edu

Oliver McBryan's WWW Worm

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html

Virtual Museums: Honolulu C.C. Dinosaur Exhibit

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html



Jon Crowcroft
Thu Nov 17 15:12:19 GMT 1994