Manuals, Guides,
Construction Tools,
How_To, What_Is

• General Internet Resources
• HTML and WWW
• Primers and Style Guides
• Web TOOLS
• Troubleshooting and General Information

General Internet/WEB Guides and Resources

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• What is the Internet, anyway?

  A Little History
  

  • ARPANET
    Wikipedia
    
  • ARPANET -- The First Internet
  • The Internet
    This site is an in-depth reference about the Internet.

  • Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web
  • Tim Berners-Lee | Internet Pioneers

• Weboepedia
  Online dictionary for computer and internet terms

• Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms

• Glossary --- from Webcom

• BABEL
  A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms

• The Translators Home Companion
  Glossaries by language; every kind of dictionary you can imagine.

• Usenet/FAQ-List.html | FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)

• PC Help Online
  Lets you look up technical support numbers and Web site links of various hardware and software outfits.

• Ask-A-Tech
  Submit questions and wait for response.

• Library of Congress: Internet Resources

• John December
  • Welcome to The HTML Station
    • Numeric Code Character Entities
    • ISO-Latin Character Entities
    • ASCII Characters

  • My own personal help page

  • Internet Web Text: Index
  • Using Internet Tools Summary

• YAHOO! The Internet
  "You Always Have Other Options"

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
  • The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog

• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet | EEF

• Computer and Communications Entry Page

• CAIT: Center for the Application of Computer Technology

• Information on Copyrights

• Information Sources: The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
  John December | Another comprehensive directory for everything Internet I've come across.

• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)

• "Zen and the Art of the Internet" by Brendan P. Kehoe

• Zen and the Art of the Internet
  Local file listing links to sites containing internet resources each of which includes a link to "Zen and the Art of the Internet."

• Art and the Zen of Web Sites

• Welcome to the InterNIC: Public Information Regarding Internet Domain Name Registration Services

• MacMillan
  The leading publisher of computer information.

• The Argus Clearinghouse
  Subject Oriented Internet Resource Guides:
  "The Argus Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides provides a central access point for value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources. Our mission is to facilitate intellectual access to information resources on the Internet. In order to avoid duplication of effort, our focus is intentionally narrow."

• Victoria Free-Net
  Victoria Free-Net is a not-for-profit Internet service provider (ISP), providing Internet service and facilities at low cost.

• Enhanced Searches in WAIS --- brief text file
  "These remarks are borrowed from the release notes in the freeWAIS suite of programs. The enhancements cited below are implemented in the WAIS server and should be available to any user of a WAIS client such as waissearch, xwais, lynx, or mosaic." I know no one will ever use this again, more than likely. It's historical; I just wanted you to know how long I've been around the Net.
  Newsgroups
  • comp.mail.misc
  • soc.net.people
  • comp.internet.net-happenings

  The file, "Internet-services Faq," is posted weekly to the newsgroup alt.internet.services on the 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th of each month, and posted twice monthly, on the 5th and 19th, to

  • alt.online.services,
  • news.newuser.questions,
  • news.answers, and
  • alt.answers .

  These newsgroup links operate only if your local browser is configured to connect to a news server that carries these newsgroups.

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About E-Mail
• Listserv Home Page

• TILE.NET
  Search Mailing List Database
  • List of Views
    • tile.net

• Electronic Mail

• Computing Support FAQ

• FTP Directory/docs
  • inter-network-mail-guide
    FTP Site; there's also a file called: "finding_addresses." This text-formatted instruction guide was compiled by John Chew. It is a duplicate, almost, of Scott Yanoff's above.

• The Internet Companion:
  "A Beginner's Guide To Global Networking" by Tracy LaQuey Parker

• Internet Guides

• Internet Resource Guides

• Internet Tutorials

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  "Requests For Comments" [RFC] Recommended supplemental reading:
  RFC974 STANDARD Mail routing and the Domain System
  RFC1032 STANDARD Domain Administrators Guide
  RFC1034 STANDARD Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
  RFC1035 STANDARD Domain Names - Implementation Specification

• Internet Engineering Task Force
  Requests for Comments

• RFC -- Editor

• Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
  • Requests for Comments

• "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet" by Ed Krol
  "This RFC is being distributed to members of the Internet community in order to make available some "hints" which will allow new network participants to understand how the direction of the Internet is set, how to acquire online information and how to be a good Internet neighbor."

• RFC 1462
  "This FYI RFC answers the question, "What is the Internet?" and is produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Containing a modified chapter from Ed Krol's 1992 book, "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog," the paper covers the Internet's definition, history, administration, protocols, financing, and current issues such as growth, commercialization, and privatization."

• RFC 1208
  A Glossary of Networking terms

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Hypertext Markup Language and The WWW

• Bio for Tim Berners-Lee | The Founder of the World Wide Web and Creator of the HTTP protocol

• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Standards for the Internet and the Web
  Home Page for the WWW
  • W3C HTML Working Group
  • W3C XHTML Working Group

  • HTML The Markup Language
  • HTML Specification 2.0
  • HTML Specification 3.0
  • HTML Specifications 4.0

• An Overview of the World Wide Web

• The Willcam Group
  - compact index of HTML tags

• W3 Schools Web Tutorial

• HTML Video Codes

• Helpful Web Design Site

• HTML 4.0 Specifications

• HTML Code Tutorial -- Free Reference Guide

• CSS3 - Intro, Guides and Resources

• CSS Properties

• CSS Tutorial | W3 Schools

• The Complete CSS Tutorial

• CSS Tutorial Introduction

• CSS Quick Tutorial

• Starting with CSS + HTML from W3org

• HTML Special Character Reference

• Index of HTML 4.01 Character Entity Reference

• HTML 4.0 Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters

• Ultimate COOL Characters Index

• Forms

• HTML Station -- John December

• December's Color Chart

• Tutorials

• Yahoo - A Guide to WWW
  • Computers:World Wide Web

• John December
  It's all here!

• Web Communications: Publishing On The Web

• Virtual Library for Web Development

• Web Design Training and Certification | The HTML Writers Guild

• HTML Beginner's Tutorial | Step-by-step Introduction to HTML and creating a simple page

• Ender Design: Realm Graphics Web Images

• YAHOO!: Background Images

• Off the 'Net

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HTML Primers and Style Guides
• HTML Tutorial

• HTML Tutorials, Primers, Web Development Tools

• HTML Code Tutorial

• My own brief HELP page

• Composing Good HTML

• W3.ORG
  • Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
  • UR* and The Names and Addresses of WWW objects
  • A Style Guide to Online Hypertext | by Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the World Wide Web)
    • W3C Search (Public)

• Dan Connolly
  This is Dan Connolly's NEW home page. From here you should be able to find just about everything you might want to know about hypertext markup language.
  • HTML Design Notebook
    Courtesy of Daniel Connolly. This page contains the latest on "Tag Extensions."

• Internationalization Activity
• YAHOO - Search Results for HTML

• IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Working Group
  --- by Roy Fielding

• Inter-Language Unification -- ILU ---FTP Site
  "The object interfaces provided by ILU hide implementation distinctions between different languages, between different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class libraries") with well-specified language-independent interfaces."

• Kevin Werbach's Home Page
  • Bare Bones Guide to HTML

• Web/HTML Documentation and Developer's Resource
  • Browsers, Viewers and HTML Preparation Resources
    • Introduction to HTML: Table Of Contents
      • Introduction to HTML and URLs
      • Bibliography of HTML Reference Documents

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Information under http://www.lbl.gov/Web/
    The whole shootin' match!

• HTML Spec: Publication History
  --- from Daniel Connolly

Newsgroups
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc

These newsgroup links operate only if your local browser is configured to connect to a news server that carries these newsgroups.

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WWW TOOLS...
• WWW: Consortium
  A good starting point for anything related to the World Wide Web.

• World Wide Web and HTMLTools
  • WWW Client Software products

• Using the World Wide Web at the Lab
  Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

  Just about any computer or Web development site you go to, you're going to find a tool kit.

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  Troubleshooting and General Information

  Free Tech Support | Ask Dave Taylor
  IT Windows Knowledge Base
  Windows98 Home Page
  Microsoft Help and Support
  "How Graphics Cards Work"
  How to install a graphics card
  Bleeping Computer Technical Support Forums
  

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