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WWW services at
OUCL and elsewhere
Here is an eclectic collection of World Wide
Web service URLs loosely
categorised as follows:
WWW users in the UK may be interested in the
New HENSA Unix Public Caching Proxy service.
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Information on the World Wide
Web Initiative and also WWW FAQs and
Guides,
some examples,
WWW FAQ and
what's new with NCSA Mosaic.
See also
World Wide Web development,
growth of the World Wide Web,
a ton of web sites,
summary of WWW servers and the
World Wide Web Home.
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WWW: Home pages for the
world, North
America, Europe and
the UK. See also
the Virtual Tourist
guide to Europe and WWW servers
in Europe, lists of WWW servers in
the world and the UK.
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A
large list of WWW sites collected at MIT and some interesting WWW
pages collected at
Imperial College and Glasgow.
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The WWW Virtual Library including
computing,
software engineering and
electronic publications (e.g.,
USA Today
and MIT's The
Tech including back
issues).
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EINet Galaxy
guide to world-wide information and services including
Computer Technology and Software Engineering.
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Yahoo - A Guide to
WWW including
Computers,
Computer Science and
Software Engineering.
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A list of
Software Engineering Topics
from the
Software Engineering Institute.
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Weather:
Meteosat weather images. Current satellite weather
maps of the
world,
Europe and the UK are
available. See also UK weather
and
US information.
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Lists of UK WWW servers at
Oxford University,
Imperial College, London and University of
Edinburgh,
a
UK guide including tourist information, and
a
guide to London.
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University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
See also the
Trojan Room Coffee Machine and an on-line
postcard collection at Cambridge.
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Department of Computing,
Imperial College, London. See also
SunSITE Northern Europe.
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Department of Computer Science, The University of Ediniburgh.
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City University,
Computer Science Department and a
Web server index page.
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Department of Computer
Science, University of
Manchester, UK (including Technical
Reports).
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DEC Systems Research
Center, Palo Alto, California, USA. (
Technical Reports and other Digital
Corporate Research Reports are available.)
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HENSA Web Cache at the
University of Kent at Canterbury.
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HENSA archives
including HENSA/micros
and HENSA/Unix
microcomputer archive.
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NCSA Home Page (see also
Mosaic Home Page). Winner of the
Best of the Web 1994 Award.
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INRIA, a
large governmental French research institute in computer-science.
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Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) messages on USENET news.
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Organizations: Information on the
ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, British Computer Society
and Z User Group.
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The Global Network
Navigator (GNN), an Internet-based Information Centre. See also
information at Imperial
College.
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National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Hubble Space
Telescope WFPC-II press release photographs.
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Books:
On-line books, listed by author, Umney's last
case by Stephen King, Shakespeare's
works,
Big Island Of Hawaii.
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Dictionaries: A collection of
dictionaries, etc., from EINet Galaxy and the
Unofficial Smiley Dictionary.
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Magazines: An
electronic newsstand including The
Economist and
Decanter magazine. See also
WIRED Magazine
and the
MIT Technology Review magazine.
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Audio:
Text to speech translator.
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Museums:
See the
WWW Virtual Library list.
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Music:
Music news and songs from Metaverse,
Woodstock
(25 years on!) and the official
Rolling Stones Web site!
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News:
The VOGON News
Service (as seen on
soc.culture.british).
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Publishers:
See the
WWW Virtual Library list.
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Recreation:
LEGO, fun and games,
fun and leisure box,
storytelling and
Viva Salsa Dance Company.
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Shopping virtually.
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Sport:
WWW Virtual Library entry,
World Cup USA '94 (also available in the UK, and see also unofficial
information) and
European Championships in Athletics - Helsinki '94. See also
Surf Windows for recent short video clips of the surf
conditions in California (AVI, not MPEG format so far :-().
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Classified
advertisements. You can submit your own
advertisement if you wish.
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Documentation for the HOL Theorem Proving System.
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Internet newsgroups.
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Computing: A
computing library and
newsgroups on computing.
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X Consortium at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
and the
European X User Group (EXUG).
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A Free For
All server where users can add their favorite WWW pages.
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A
map of Europe.
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Companies:
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA.
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BBC
including TV and
radio program schedules (see also FTP access and Auntie bulletin board).
Contact info@bbc.co.uk for further information or
the-net@bbc.co.uk for feedback concerning the BBC2 series
The Net. See also BBC
Tomorrow's World information, Voice of America,
UK
Channel 4 and Internet Talk Radio
(see
FAQ message for other sites.
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The Best of the
Web competition entries.
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The Obituary Page.
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Today's
Doctor Fun from the
Doctor Fun Page mirrored at the
Manchester Computing Centre.
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Who's On-line including computer
scientists.
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Mailbase mailing
lists (also via Gopher).
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Demon Internet Ltd. services (e.g. access to Internet).
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The
Electronic Café.
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UK Gopher services.
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WebWorld, a Web-based cyberworld constructed entirely by the
Internet community.
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USENET news via gopher at
Birmingham ,UK and
Los Alamos, USA. Particularly useful if the
news feed is down.
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TV shows:
Monty Python and
Red Dwarf.
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ANIMA: Arts Network for Integrated Media Applications.
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EUnet Network Information Services.
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The
Globewide Network Academy (GNA),
aiming to be the world's first virtual university.
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NSFNET Backbone Statistics.
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Distributedly Administered Categorical List Of Documents
from Project DA-CLOD. Add your own URL entries interactively via
WWW forms!
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The
MBONE Information Web - the Virtual Internet Backbone for
Multicast IP for audio and video connections across the
Internet.
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The
The Genome Data Base (GDB).
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The
GoldSite Europe including a
Global On-Line Directory,
The Guardian OnLine and
infoHIGHWAY News of the Internet.
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Motif home page from the Freedom Software Hyperspace
Center!
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United Kingdom and Ireland
Special Interest Group on the World Wide Web (SIGWEB).
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UKOLN: Bath WWW Servers:
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Greenpeace International (Amsterdam).
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WAIS, Inc.
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Global Commerce Link.
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Internet Multicasting Service.
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The GNN/Koblas Currency Converter:
UK£ (Pounds Sterling),
ECU (European Currency Unit)
and
US$ (Dollars).
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I'M - EUROPE - information about Europe and the European
electronic information market.
See also
European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH (ECRC).
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Pizza Hut - order a pizza on the network!
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UK
CCTA Government Information Service
and
H.M. Treasury.
See UK Government Consultative Report on
Information Superhighways - Opportunities for public sector
applications in the UK, May 1994.
See also the
Official Liberal Democrat Home Page.
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INTELLEC Information Service.
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The
UK National Lottery.
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AT&T 800 Directory on the Internet.
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UI Computer Science Department, Lab B-13: real-time
picture.
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UK Internet service providers.
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The World Factbook 1994 from the
CIA including
United Kingdom information.
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The Awesome List of Internet resources.
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Starting Point.
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