Handy Web Sites

Web directories and search tools ("engines"):

• By keyword: Google * FAST Search * Vivisimo * Teoma * WiseNut * MSN * AltaVista * Northern Light * Ask Jeeves * iWON * Excite (Magellan, WebCrawler) * Go (Infoseek) * HotBot * AOL Netfind * NBCi (Snap) * WWW Worm (GoTo) * Anzwers * Euroseek * PlanetSearch * Mamma AltaVizsla * Heurka
• By subject and keyword combined: Yahoo! * MonkeySweat * Lycos * WebCrawler * Excite * Magellan * NetGuide * Deja News * EOL HuDir
• Meta-search: 1Blink * SavvySearch * Matacrawler * HardSeek * Dogpile (Canada.com)
• All at one page: W3 Search Engine * PSE * All-in-One * Colossus * NetLocator (Accufind)
• CGI Env. Param: UAF * Thunder Ridge * VisiWeb.com * CSU * PerlHoo * Monash * safe-order.net * WebTen * PBelew * ORNL * Cotse * Anonymizer
• Various tools: WhoWhere? * Electric Library * Shareware * Netcraft * MIME Decoding * Canada Post * USPS (Postal Explorer) * Address Builder * National Address Server * PostNET Decoder * ZipCode Search * EST * EET * AEST
• Romanian related: Start.ro * Home.ro * Index.ro * SIDER * Orientation.ro * Search.ro * Romania OnLine * Click&Go * Colossus * Nat. Trade Registry * NetMedia * Romanian hams
• Directory listing of /A; /C; /D; /E; /F; /G; /H;
• Toronto Weather Forecast: Environment Canada (Past Weather) * Weather Network * AccuWeather * Sympatico.ca * Canada.com
• SpammerSlammer kit
  • Email Abuse FAQ (IBM FAQ on abuse)
  • Spam-tracking 101; 102; 103; 104; (links)
  • Deciphering headers 1; 2; 3
    • Name/IP# Lookup [backup (in case 1st one is slow)]
    • InterNIC Whois (via telnet type "whois" followed by CR) record format
    • WWW Finger Gateway
    • Trace Route/Ping
    • All tools in one
    • IP converters: 32bit->DQ; DQ->32bit

Romania related links:

• Romanian white pages phone directory
• Virtual Romania's Chat Space
• Phone Romania @ US$.62/min.
• Media
  • Romanian Mass Media
  • KIOSKEN (Romanian Newspapers)
• Pagina Romanilor din Canada
• RSC Romanian Students' Club (at University of Toronto, Canada)
• Romanian personal home pages (from various sources):
  1. @ Tavi Ureche's site
  2. @ a bucharest.com named site
  3. @ REENIC
  4. First two sources combined (edited as of July 1996) and plus a few
  5. Pagini ale Romanilor din Canada
• Usenet newsgroups:
  • General (via Gopher)
  • soc.culture.*
  • soc.culture.romanian ( RemarQ; Orientation; Talkway; Deja; NewsOne; Mailgate; Interbulletin; Nooz.net; UMD; EasyUsenet)
• Lists:
  • eGroups
  • Rom-List; Rom-Pol; Rom-Pul
  • Agora (TIC-Lobby, Cenaclu)
  • UOregon (romanians)

List of most Internet service providers:

• By state and area code; includes contact information: http://www.thelist.com

Some handy info on how to get started in setting up your own website:

• NCF's 'go internet-help' menu
• How to create a personal home page_on the NCF_ system
• Home page construction kit
• HTML Primer (Ian Graham, Univ. of Toronto)
• HTML tutorial (Maricopa Center for Learning)
• HTML elements list
• Writing good HTML
• ColorPro Webserver
• Color chart (Doug Jacobson)
• Blind WWW page design
• The 43 bytes Spacing Miracle
• HTML-sample document

Internet privacy issues:

• Demonstration Web page
• Cookie Monster
• Anonymizer

Investor Services:

• Security APL Inc.
• PC Qoute Inc.

Connect to other Freenets:

• Toronto Freenet (199.71.188.18)
• National Capital Freenet (134.117.136.22 /-23 /-25)
• Finland Freenet ( 130.233.208.42 /-43)

World Wide Web (WWW):

• CERN, Switzerland
• University of Kansas (login: www)
• University of Arizona

Internet Gopher Servers:

• University of Minnesota (login: gopher)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (login: gopher)
• SUNET Gopher Sweden (login: gopher)
• NYSERNet (login: nysernet)
• Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (login: gopher)

• U of T Libraries
• York Univ. Libraries
• Ryerson Library
• Osgoode Hall Library
• Toronto Public Library (The Virtual Ref. Lib.; Ingenieum)
• NYPL Selected Electronic Resources

Miscelaneous:

• Caissa's Web (Chess on the Internet)
• Online Math, SciEng, megaCalculator and megaConverters
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online (from where access is NOT limited); UofT Proxy Service
• WWWebster Dictionary
• Webopedia dictionary and search engine
• English/Hungarian Dictionary
• English/Romanian Dictionary (Eng/Rom; Rom/Eng)
• English/German Dictionary
• English/French Dictionary
• On-Line English Grammar
• Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist
• Ryerson Reference Resources
• Internet Movie Datadase
• Telephone Directories on the Web
• Phone Directories of Europe
• Check Visa Requirements Worldwide
• US INS Home Page
• CSICOP Home Page
• Scientific American
• American Center for Physics
• American Institute of Physics
• Geographic Name Server
• Magazines
  • Electronic Newsstand
  • Harper's Magazine
  • The Atlantic Monthly
  • The New Republic
  • Slate Magazine
  • Z Magazine
  • Thinking Magazine (by Marc Perkel)
  • KIOSKEN (Intl Newspapers On-Line)
• Hungarian Human Rights Foundation