World-Wide Web/Internet Links

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Want to surf the Victoria Internet? Check out the Victoria Internet Directory published on the Net and on paper by Electronic Village Productions Ltd, Victoria.

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Contents

Meta Resources | Web Protocols and Standards | Metadata Information | Structured Information Standards | XML/XSL | HTML/HTTP | SGML | Programming Languages | 3D Markup | Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) Information | Other WWW Information Sources and Exploration Vessels | WWW Conferences | The International WWW Conferences, 1994- | Best of the Web Awards | Cool or Kewel Stuff on the Web | Selected Internet Information via WWW | General News | Resource Guides | Search Tools, Indexes and Navigational Aids | How-To-Search Guides | Search Engine Software | Electronic Mail | File Formats | Internet Organizations | Internet Consultants | Business on the Internet | Development and Future of the Internet | Web Communities and Portals List

If you are new to the Internet and the Web, here are some information sources beginning with a few:

Meta Resources

Note to Victoria Telecommunity Network registered users: some of these sites will not be accessible at all via our Lynx text-only browsers.

• In Site (Gary D. Price) is an information-awareness service intending to provide access to new Internet resources.
• Internet Resources Meta-Index (National Center for Supercomputing Applications [NCSA], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Internet Scout Project (Computer Sciences Dept., University of Wisconsin; sponsored by the National Science Foundation) provides links to The Scout Toolkit, Net-Happenings and The Scout Report.
• Meta-List of What's New Pages (Meng Weng Wong, University of Pennsylvania)
• Netpedia: The Solution for Web Developers (Ambient Technologies) has news about Web technology, a site-search engine, and links galore to Java applets and Javascript files.
• Open FAQs is maintained by Thomas Boutell are a series of Frequently Asked Questions
• Starting Points for Internet Exploration (National Center for Supercomputing Applications [NCSA], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• WEAV, the Web Enthusiasts Association of Victoria is located in Victoria, British Columbia, and members share an interest in working and playing with the Web
• The Web Developer's Virtual Library (Mecklermedia Corp.)
• Web Weavers Bibliography is an excellent compilation of links and explanatory information by Carl E. Snow, Purdue University.
• Web Weavers Page (NASA, USA)
• WebDeveloper.com (Mecklermedia Corp.)
• WebReference.com: The Webmaster's Reference Library (Mecklermedia Corp.)
• webresource.net: "the ultimate source for webmasters"
• Webtools (University of Rochester Libraries) is a rich collection of HTML authoring resources.
• The WWW Virtual Library (Mirror site at Stanford University, California) is the oldest subject listing of Internet resources and was begun by Tim Berners-Lee (W3C).
• WWWsmith Column (Linux Journal; formerly WEBsmith Magazine)

Web Protocols and Standards

Two organizations set standards for the Internet and the Web:

• The Internet Engineering Task Force is the official protocol and standards-development body for the Internet. Information relating to Web protocols and standards can be found here.
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) assumed responsiblity for Web standards following its transfer as a project begun at the CERN Laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland, by Tim Berners-Lee.

Web metadata or data about data, especially XML/SGML data about Web resources, is embodied in emerging standards such as the Dublin Core and the W3C's Resource Descriptive Framework (RDF) and Platform Internet Content Specification (PICS). RDF is so cutting edge that the current RDF syntax document (PR-rdf-syntax-19990105), as an example of its use, will not validate against the HTML 4.0 Document Type Definition. One of the most interesting free tools for the creation of Dublin Core (DC) metadata elements in a variety of formats is DC-dot from UKOLN, University of Bath, England.

Other organizations addressing Internet data transport (not content) issues include:

1. Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. is responsible for electronic data interchange (EDI) standards, especially in the area of electronic commerce
2. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) manages the process of setting standards at the global level

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

• CGI City (Peter Go)
• CGI Documentation (NCSA, University of Illinois)

Structured Information Standards

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a non-profit international consortium promoting the adoption of platform-neutral markup languages such as XML, HTML and SGML.

Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Style Language (XML/XSL)

is a further subset of SGML designed to overcome many of the limitations of HTML

1. Extensible Markup Language (XML) (Microsoft)
2. Extensible Markup Language (XML) (W3C) includes the W3C Recommendation for Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
3. What is XML? compiled by l.c. rees
4. XHTML®: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (W3C Recommendation 26 January 2000) is "A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0"
5. XML.com (Seybold Publications and O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.) is packed with useful and current information
6. XMLephant: The Big XML Resource (Cardboard String Media)
7. XMLSoftware is an excellent source of free, shareware, and commercial XML products.
8. xmlTree (Wavefront Ltd.) provides a structured tree-like directory to XML-based Web content.
9. XML/XSL Resources (Bryan Van Hook)

HyperText Markup Language/HyperText Transport Protocol (HTML/HTTP)

is a subset of SGML

1. AnyBrowser.com allows you to validate your HTML markup as well as simulate how your HTML will appear to different browsers based on their HTML parsing capabilities.
2. HTML Specification Page (Official) (W3C) includes a section on HTML 4.0 which Microsoft implemented as "Dynamic HTML" (DHTML)
3. HTML Specification Page (IETF HTML Working Group, maintained by Roy Fielding)
4. HTML Writers Guild is an international organization of Web page authors and Internet publishers. AWARE (Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education), an initiative of HWG, promotes universally accessible Web sites.
5. HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol): specifications and development information can be found at this site at the University of California, Irvine, maintained by Roy Fielding.
6. HTTPD Servers List contains comparisons and links to information about all known publicly available httpd daemons. The list was compiled and maintained by Daniel LaLiberte, NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
7. Index DOT Html and Index DOT Css by Brian Wilson is a reference tool on HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
8. Introduction to HTML and URLs (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
9. WebCom HTML Resources Guide
10. XHTML: The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is HTML 4.0 as an XML 1.0 application

Standardized General Markup Language (SGML)

1. Architag University, formerly SGML University, is based in Englewood, Colorado
2. SGML/XML Resource Library (POET Software)
3. The SGML/XML Web Page by Robin Cover at OASIS

Extensible Markup Language/Extensible Style Language (XML/XSL) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) are subsets of SGML.

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

A URL, also referred to as a Web address, is the mechanism by which the HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) locates an Internet/Web server.

• Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) (W3C): contains a link to all other information compiled by Tim Berners-Lee on universal resource location devices

Programming Languages

are used on the Web to perform actions that are otherwise impossible to execute in a markup language. Due to the enormous volume of information on these major languages, only a few selected sites are listed.

Java, JavaScript and ECMAScript

Java is a creation of Sun Microsystems, JavaScript is a creation of Netscape Communications Corporation, and ECMAScript or ECMA-262 is a vendor-neutral version of Netscape JavaScript and Microsoft JScript maintained by the European Computer Manfacturers Association (ECMA), Switzerland. Large JavaScript libraries are found at the JavaScript Source and JavaScript World. Microsoft J++ is a Microsoft implementation of Java under license from Sun Microsystems.

Perl

is an interpreted language and popular in UNIX computing environments. The Perl Institute is a good starting point, as is CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, once you know what to look for.

Visual Basic and VBScript

are Microsoft products.

3D Markup

3D Markup refers to text-based files that describe three-dimensional objects or scenes, static or animated, for display on Web sites. As of November 1999 there are two such 3D Markup products: 3DML and VRML.

3DML

3DML was developed by Flatland.com. The company provides a wide variety of tools for building 3D Web sites on the fly (on the spot) with no need to construct or model 3D objects. 3DML is very similar to HTML, so serious codehounds can go even further with 3DML than through the automated building tools on the Flatland Web site.

Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML)

VRML is the international standard for the storage and exchange of 3D objects and data models known as worlds.

1. VRML97 Specification (VRML Consortium) is functionally equivalent to VRML 2.0
2. Focus on Web3D (Sandy Ressler's Guide at About.com)
3. VRML Repository (Web3D Consortium, formerly managed by the University of California, San Diego)
4. VRMLSite Magazine
5. Web3D Consortium (formerly the VRML Consortium)

Other Web Information Sources and Exploration Vessels

• EINet Galaxy, a service of the Enterprise Integration Network (EINet), contains a well-developed list of Internet information sources on many topics.
• HotWired (Wired Magazine)
• Hytelnet Database: Telnet Information Resources (University of Kansas)
• Infohiway (Infohiway, Inc., Foxfield, CO)
• Inter-Links Internet Access (Dr. Rob Kabacoff )
• InterNIC Information and Education Services operated from 1995 to March 31, 1998. Some services are still available. The InterNIC is a cooperative project of the National Science Foundation (USA), Network Solutions, Inc. and AT&T.
• iTools: Full-Serve Internet Tools provides convenient links to research and reference tools, look-up tools and Web site promotion tools.
• Netscape Guide by Yahoo!
• Submit It! WWW Announcement Service (Maintained by Scott Banister) is another meta-site of places to which you can send your Web page or site address (URL). Unique to this site is the one-stop registration to nearly two dozen WWW announcement services.
• Yahoo! and Yahoo Canada (Yahoo! Inc.) are two of the oldest and most successful guides to the Internet
• The Yahoo! Directory of Announcement Services is a comprehensive set of places you can announce your Web site/page. Not all services are free or equal.

WWW Conferences

The Internet Conference Calendar (Automatrix, Inc., Rexford, NY) offers announcements of conferences, seminars and other public events (commercial or otherwise) pertaining to the Internet and Web.

NOTE: Except for the International WWW Conferences, this section was abandoned in 1995; the links were last checked and corrected on 1998 05 26.

The International WWW Conferences, 1994-

• Proceedings of the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, Geneva, Switzerland, May 25-27, 1994, courtesy of Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
• WAIS Index to Proceedings of the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, courtesy of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
• Proceedings of the Second International WWW Conference '94: Chicago, Oct. 17-20, 1994
• Second International WWW Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago, Oct. 17-20, 1994
• Third International WWW Conference '95: Technology, Tools, and Applications, Darmstadt, Germany, Apr. 10-14, 1995
• Fourth International WWW Conference: The WEB Revolution, Boston, Mass., Dec. 11-14, 1995
• Fifth International WWW Conference, Paris, France, May 6-10, 1996
• Sixth International WWW Conference, Santa Clara, California, April 7-11, 1997
• Seventh International WWW Conference, Brisbane, Australia, April 14-18, 1998
• Eighth International WWW Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 11-14, 1999
• Ninth International WWW Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 15-19, 2000

National Conferences, 1995 Only

• AusWeb95 Information: Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia, Apr. 29-May 2, 1995
• WWW National Conference: Internet Multimedia Information, Minho University, Braga, Portugal, July 6-8, 1995
• ACCESS '95 - World Wide Web Conference on Gateways and Publishing, Wu Conference Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, Oct. 23-25, 1995

Best of the Web Awards

• Academy of World Wide Web Arts & Sciences (AW3AS) was inaugurated on April 1, 1998
• Best of the Web, 1994-
• Best of the Web (Yahoo! Directory)

Cool or Kewel Stuff on the Web

Formerly World-Wide Web Weirdness

• Bonk Business Inc. (Finland)contains probably the funniest, wackiest history of any multinational company currently operating.
• Cool Site of the Day {SM} (InfiNet)
• The Electric Postcard (Media Lab, MIT, Massachusetts) -- those Media Lab wizards have done it again and there are even Branch Offices.
• Leonard's "CAM WORLD" -- visit via live video shots all those exotic, remote locations you've dreamed about, from Antarctica to Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Random URLs (Webcrawler)

Selected Internet Information via WWW

This list is not exhaustive and is only intended to highlight a few of the information resources about the Internet available on the Web.

GENERAL NEWS

• CIO WebBusiness (CIO Communications Inc.; formerly WebMaster Online)
• Current Cites (Library, University of California, Berkeley)
• Cyberspace Report is issued by KUCI (88.9) FM Radio, Irvine, California
• EDUPAGE (EDUCOM)
• INFOBAHN: The Magazine of Internet Culture (Postmodern Communications, Inc.) is no longer published, but historic information is available and a new publication are promised for 1998.
• Information Society News (IS News, Information Society Project Office, European Commission)
• Internet Research, ISSN 1066-2243 (MCB University Press, UK)
• Internet Resources Newsletter (Heriot-Watt University Library, Edinburgh, UK)
• internet.com (Mecklermedia Corp., Westport, CT) contains links to all other publications issued by Mecklermedia. Useful links to Internet resources can also be found here.
• Internet World (formerly Web Week) (Mecklermedia Corp., Westport, CT)
• internetnews.com (Mecklermedia Corp.)
• InterNIC News published between April 1996-March 1998; contains searchable InterNIC News Archive of all issues.
• NetCetera ISSN: 1078-7593 (Verio Northwest Inc., Bellevue, Wash.)
• Netsurfer Digest (Netsurfer Communications Inc.)
• Netsurfer Tools (Netsurfer Communications Inc.)
• The Network Observer (Dept. of Comunication, University of California, San Diego)
• Scout Report (InterNIC Information Services)
• Telecommunications Electronic Reviews ISSN: 1075-9972 (American Library Association)
• Truthnet E-zine (ISSN 1209-1693, Truthnet Publishing)
• Web Review (Songline Studios, an affiliate of O'Reilly & Associates)

RESOURCE GUIDES

The Unofficial Internet Book List maintained by Kevin Savetz is an outstanding resource for tracking down books and other printed resources about the Internet.

Web Awareness: Knowing the Issues (Media Awareness Network, Canada) assists students, parents, educators and librarians in evaluating Internet/Web resources.

• The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Adam Gaffin (served by Dept. of Mathematics Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhouse University, Halifax, NS)
• The Argus Clearinghouse (Argus Associates, Inc.) -- formerly The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
• Internet Electronic Library at SFU (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC)
• [Go Surfing] Internet Resources (Neil Enns, Brandon University, Brandon, MB)
• Guide to the Canadian Information Highway (Gladys We, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC)
• CMC Information Sources: The December List (John December, December Communications, Inc.) is a substantial compilation arranged by topics of documents and Internet sites pertaining to communications through computers
• Internet Information Station (Victoria Telecommunity Network)
• The Newbies Guides for the New and Old User by Steve Franklin includes links to technical information and software archives. Former title: "The New (and Old) User's Guide to the Net"

SEARCH TOOLS, INDEXES AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS

How-To-Search Guides

• A Search Engine for Your Site (Edwin Hayward) is a guide by category to different types of search engines.
• Search Engine Watch (Danny Sullivan, Editor, Mecklermedia Corp.) tracks developments in the world of search engines and contains a how-to-search section.
• SearchTools.com: Search Tools for Web Sites, Intranets and Portals (Search Tools Consulting)
• Web Search is an About.com Guide by Chris Sherman with lots of how-to information.

Local (BC) Indexes and Guides

• BCDirectory.com (Port Coquitlam)
• The Complete ISPList for BC (Dennis D. Berg, Sooke, BC)
• searchBC is a service provided by Vancouver Webpages
• Victoria Internet Directory
• WebLens: Bringing the Web into focus is a subject-based guide to Internet search tools by Victoria Times-Colonist columnist and Internet consultant Pam Blackstone. If you're not sure which search engine to use, begin with WebLens and review the various topic categories for which specialized search engines exist.

The Rest of the Net

• About.com (About.com, Inc., formerly The MiningCo) hosts "expert" sites on a wide variety of topics and includes a search engine
• AcademicInfo Educational Resources and Subject Guides
• ALIWEB (Archie-like Indexing of the Web) (NEXOR, Nottingham, UK)
• all4one Search Machine (easyPAGE Internet Services)
• All-in-One Search Page (Created by William D. Cross)
• Allthesites.com (CISP, Inc.) uses the FAST search technology.
• Anywhere.ca Canadian Search Engine and Directory - listing over 75,000 Canadian Websites
• AllTheWeb.com see FAST Search
• AltaVista (Digital Equipment Corp.) and AltaVista Canada
• ANZWERS (Australia and New Zealand Web Enquiry Research System) also offers world-wide Web searching (OzEmail Pty Limited)
• Ask Jeeves and Ask Jeeves for Kids (Ask Jeeves, Inc.) are metasearch engines that do not rely on other search engines. Ask Jeeves helps you formulate your searches for the most effective results.
• The BigHub.com offers parallel searching of several other search engines. The BigHub.com Megasearch engine is based on the Internet Sleuth search engine (no longer exists as a separate site, 2000.02.29).
• C4 / see for, total search technology (Cyber Networks Inc.), is customizable through a free account and offers free e-mail
• CompletePlanet: The Complete Source for Search Engines and Databases (BrightPlanet.com LLC). This site searches for databases, not Web content.
• DeepWeb.com (Quigo Technologies, Inc.) - not operational as of January 2002 and based on the preview this search engine may not live up to the company's promises.
• devSEARCH: The search engine for the people who build the web (Project Cool Inc.)
• DirectHit (AskJeeves, Inc.)
• Dogpile: meta-search of several Web search engines, Usenet search sites and two FTP search tools
• dot com directory (Network Solutions) includes Canadian individuals/business addresses with zoomable maps
• Dustcloud Media Search Engine searches for multimedia sources on the Web
• Eureka! Internet Search Engine
• EuroFerret (Muscat Limited) offers multilingual searching of European-hosted Web pages
• Excite (Excite Inc.) offers its famous search engine and interactive, customizable guide to the Net
• FAST Search (AllTheWeb.com, FAST Search and Transfer ASA, Norway)
• 1stHeadlines
• Forum One (Forum One Communications Corporation) allows you to search for online discussions groups or forums; a guide to forums by subject matter is available.
• 4anything.com (4anything.com, Inc.) resembles AltaVista
• GO.com (formerly InfoSeek) offers its famous search engine and a customizable guide to the Net
• Google (Google Inc.) uses its proprietary PageRank{tm} technology to rank pages according to the number of times they are linked to. Search Canadian listings at Google.ca.
• GoTo.com (idealab!) was formerly the World-Wide Web Worm developed by Oliver McBryan
• Great Canadian Links (Premier-Hosting.COM, Maine, USA)
• Highway 61 MetaCrawler (The Virtual Mirror, Inc.)
• HotBot (Wired Digital, Inc.) includes its famous search engine and a Net guide, along with special links to Wired magazine
• iBoogie Metasearch Engine - includes a "DeepWeb" search option as well as a subject directory/guide to Web content which appears to be based on the Open Directory Project.
• InfoJump: Information for the Masses
• InfoSeek Ultra (InfoSeek Corp.) searches the Web, news, companies and Usenet
• IntelliScope Search (Inso Corporation) allows searches of selected search engines, review sites and Usenet newsgroups
• InvisibleWeb.com: The Search Engine of Search Engines is a database of Web sites and a directory of sites that are "invisible" to automated search engine agents (IntelliSeek, Inc.)
• Ixquick Metasearch calls itself the "world's most powerful metasearch engine"; in addition to text, MP3 audio files and pictures can be searched
• Knowledge Discovery Mine: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources Index (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Michael Beddows)
• Librarians' Index to the Internet is "By Librarians, for Everyone" and consists of a search engine and a subject directory
• LinkStar Business Directory (HotOffice Technologies, Inc.)
• LookSmart (LookSmart International Limited) uses the AltaVista search engine and includes a subject directory
• Lycos (Lycos, Inc.) offers its famous search engine and the ability to personalize its look, along with Web guides on various topics
• Magellan Internet Directory (The McKinley Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Excite Inc.)
• Mama: The Mother of All Search Engines (Mamma Systems Inc.) is a metasearch engine.
• MavicaNet
• MegaSpider - Searching the Search Engines for You!. Note: This is the same product as NotBot.com and 37.com (37 Search Engines).
• MetaCrawler (go2net, Inc.) offers its famous search engine and a Net guide geared to personal interests (weather, career, business, people-finder)
• MetaFind is part of Dogpile
• metamend.com creates metatags containing keywords appropriate to your Web site's content. Links can be submitted for free.
• The MiningCo. is now About.com
• MonkeySweat features an affiliate program for Webmasters.
• MultiCrawl Parallel Search Engine
• Multimeta: The Meta Search Engine (Multimeta and Lengua Translations) features multilingual search capabilities
• NetGuide Live (CMP Media Inc.)
• NetSearcher: The Search Engine for Internet Professionals (Mecklermedia Corp.)
• NewsBlip: A Search Engine for News
• Northern Light Search (Northern Light Technology LLC) provides a Web search engine as well as the ability to search a "Special Collection" of 4 million articles exclusive to its site
• oingo: "we know what you mean", claims to be the first meaning-based search engine (Oingo, Inc.)
• OneKey: The Smart Search Engine (JA Enterprises, LLC )
• Open Directory Project (Netscape Corporation) appeals to the Internet brain in us all -- become an editor and contribute your expertise
• LiveLink Pinstripe (Open Text Corporation) replaces the Open Text Index and is geared to the business user
• PeekABoo (Tell America!, LLC), offers trademark services, information & a travel directory
• Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a catalogue of subject catalogues and well worth investigating.
• PowerCrawler: Internet Search & Directory (Powercrawler.com)
• ProFusion (ProFusion, LLC, licensed from the Center for Research, Inc., University of Kansas)
• Project Aristotle{sm}, hosted by CyberStacks{sm}, is a unique, cutting-edge collection of search engines and navigational aids.
• Raging Search from AltaVista
• Savvy Search (Parallel Internet Search Engine) (SavvySearch Limited)
• Snap (Snap, LLC) combines a search engine and directory
• Starting Point: MetaSearch (Starting Point LLC) includes a search engine, Net guide and a customizable look
• SurfWax (VORT Corporation)
• Teoma
• TotalNEWS
• Vivisimo.com
• WebCrawler (Excite, Inc.) features the famous search engine originally developed by Brian Pinkerton, University of Washington, Seattle, along with a Net guide
• WebTop.com (The Dialog Corporation)
• Wisenut
• World Wide Web Yellow Pages (Macmillan Computer Publishing [MCP.com])
• xRefer.com is "the Web's reference engine" with full-text searchable online reference works from reputable publishers
• Yahoo!, Yahoo! Canada, and Yahooligans!: The Web Guide for Kids

• AltaVista Discovery lets you search the Net and your own PC.
• Copernic 2000 simultaneously searches several search engines
• Infoseek Express allows you to select one or several search engines.
• Lycos Search Software from Lycos offers several different search aids, typically for the Windows PC platform.

ELECTRONIC MAIL

• CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) is a lobby group attempting to stop e-mail spamming (junk e-mail)
• Liszt (Scott Southwick) includes LISTSERV@ listproc@, and majordomo@ mailing lists in its database and topical directory
• Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists Another URL for connecting to a variety of mailing lists.
• tile.net/lists allows you to search for LISTSERV mailing lists by topic, or to view information about a list if you know its name.

FILE FORMATS

• Multimedia File Formats on the Internet: A Beginner's Guide for PC Users by Allison Zhang. 2nd edition.

INTERNET ORGANIZATIONS

Jump to Development and Future of the Internet

• Alliance for Public Technology (Washington, DC): a consumer advocacy organization for the information age
• Alliance for Technology Access promotes universally accessible Web sites for the disabled.
• AWARE (Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education) is managed by the HTML Writers Guild
• Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP)
• British Columbia Internet Association
• Canadian Internet Registration Authority as of June 2000 will be assuming responsibility for registering Internet domain names previously registered on a volunteer basis at the University of British Columbia by members of CDNnet. CDNnet is now known as Webnames and as of June 2000 is the only registry service for obtaining a .ca domain name. Payment is required.
• CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email)
• The Censorware Project is "a group dedicated to exposing the phenomenon of censorware" meaning they target products such as Cybersitter, Cyber Patrol, SurfWatch and the PICS system. Date updated: 2002-04-20.
• Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (Palo Alto, CA)
• Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force, United Nations Development Program and World Bank) was established to address the global digital divide.
• Electronic Frontier Canada: contains a comprehensive list of related organizations, including its US counterpart, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC, Washington, D.C.) was established in 1994 as a public interest research center on issues surrounding privacy and computers
• Global Internet Liberty Campaign is an international organization advocating freedom of expression and protection of privacy on the Internet
• Information Highway Advisory Council (Canada)
• Internet Architecture Board (Internet Society technical advisory group)
• The Internet Archive (San Francisco, CA) is a private organization dedicated to preserving and providing free access to Internet/Web content, including multimedia resources such as motion picture and video.
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is being reorganized as an international non-profit society to better reflect the Internet community (press release, June 5, 1998)
• Internet Engineering Task Force (via its Secretariat at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Reston, VA)
• Internet Research Task Force
• Internet Society (Reston, VA)
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
• Webnames, formerly known as CDNnet (http://www.cdnnet.ca), is a user-pay registry service for obtaining .ca Internet domain names.

BRITISH COLUMBIA & SELECTED LISTS OF INTERNET CONSULTANTS

Use The Internet Phonebooth (VTN) to find Internet Consultants via the YellowPages or other Net directories.

• BareMetal Designs (Victoria)
• WebPool Syndicate Inc. (Vancouver): Multimedia and Web developers
• West View Designs (Victoria) (Division of Antibe Resources Ltd.): Web Design and Training

Business on the Internet

• Building a Corporate Intranet: An Online Education Site for Intranet Builders is an online seminar created by WorkMark Associates, Houston, Texas.
• CommerceNet was established in California in April 1994 and promotes electronic commerce via the Internet
• Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX®) Association
• NetMall{sm} (American Information Systems, Inc., Chicago, IL)

DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

Jump to Internet Organizations

• CANARIE Inc. is a non-profit consortium guiding the development of Canadian advanced networking technologies; its primary role is coordinating the development of CA*net. Jump to Canadian Internet Registration Authority
• Center For Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) (University of Massachusetts) describes advanced information retrieval software
• Final Report of the Information Highway Advisory Council (Industry Canada)
• Internet2, the US-based next-generation Internet, is currently in experiment mode through over a hundred universities and research sites. Links can be found on the Internet2 site to the Abilene Project and international participants such as CANARIE.
• LIVE.COM is the commercial application of the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) portion of the Internet. Information on multicasting/livecasting can be found on the LIVE.COM site.
• National Broadband Taskforce (Industry Canada) is charged with developing a solution for providing broadband (high speed) Internet access to all Canadians by 2004. Its final report, The New National Dream: Networking the Nation for Broadband Access, was released on June 18, 2001.
• The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing Technology Journal (RCFoC) is a weekly e-magazine from Compaq Computer Corporation
• Realizing the Information Future (National Academy Press, USA)
• Regulating Information Networks by Andrew Cosgrove et al examines the role of the US National Information Infrastructure (NII)
• The Routing Arbiter Project (Merit Network and University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute)
• The White House (Washington, DC) Web page on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council contains a link to the KickStart Initiative of the Benton Foundation which the NIIAC chose to continue its work

Web Communities and

Portals List

Jump to the VTN Community Computer Networks, Free-Nets & City-Regional Guides

Some of these "communities" provide free Web space, e-mail, chat and other services in exchange for your personal information. This allows the community host service to advertise products via your Web site through pop-up banner ads (GeoCities uses this method) or through direct mailing. If you are uneasy about releasing personal information that may be resold without your knowledge or permission, you should not join one these communities.

• 2GlobalMart.com
• About.com (About.com, Inc., formerly the MiningCo.)
• Bigfoot includes a Web Search feature "powered by Snap"
• GeoCities was acquired by Yahoo! in January 1999.
• The Globe (theglobe.com inc.)
• Homestead.com offers e-commerce opportunities (Web space)
• MSN Home Pages (Microsoft Network Web space)
• My Netscape (portal service)
• MyBC.com (TELUS portal service)
• Netscape Site Central (Web space)
)
• Nettaxi Online Communities (Nettaxi Online Communities, Inc.)
• Suite101.com Community-based Best-of-Web Guide (i5ive communications inc.)
• Tripod (Tripod, Inc., a Lycos company) offers CGI scripting capabilities
• Victoria Community Portal (Victoria Telecommunity Network)
• XOOM (XOOM.com, Inc.)
• ZineZone (Password Internet Publishing Corp., a CMGI company)

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