Beginner's Web Sample Pages

Starting Points

Pathfinder: Time-Warner's fantastic Net complement to its magazine titles.
Ziff-Davis: Home page for PC Magazine, MacWEEK, Computer Life, etc.
HotWired: Colorfully designed counterpart to groundbreaking cyber-mag.
San Jose Mercury Center: The newspaper of the future might look like this.
E-Zines: John Labovitz's list of alternative-perspective electronic "zines."
Comics 'n' Stuff: Pointer page to Dilbert and many other Net cartoons.

Voyager: For fans of the latest Star Trek, a truly enjoyable treat.
CBS Eye on the Net: For Letterman watchers; "What's On" has tonight's programs.
BBC Home Page: A guide to the British television and radio network.
Music Resources on the Internet: Huge catalog of links to tune-oriented pages.
Internet Underground-Music Archive: Discover music you otherwise wouldn't.
Elvis Home Page: The King is on the Net; with Graceland photo tour.
The Internet Movie Database: Get a filmograph of your fave actor, director.
Star Wars Home Page: Collectibles, games, multimedia, survey, and more.
Hollywood Online: Movie trailers, interactive kits, sound clips, etc.
Cinema Sites: Extensive guide to movie and TV resources on the Web.
Playbill Online: What's playing on Broadway? Has listings and related info.

WebLouvre: French virtual art gallery has Famous Paintings exhibitions.
Cave Paintings: Displayed are the recently discovered Paleolithic pictures.
Art on the Net: Galleries of avant-garde works; very good jump page of links.
The File Room: Devastating, well-organized catalog of censored materials.
EXPO: Exhibit organization; links to Vatican, Soviet Archive, other Web "tours."
Complete Works of Shakespeare: Searchable text of the Bard's stuff.
Project Gutenberg: Access this effort to put classic texts in electronic form.

White House: Bill and Al's excellent experiment has virtual tours and more.
Thomas: Jeffersonian link to U.S. House, Senate bills; Congressional Record.
CIA World Fact Book: Encyclopedic dossier on every country on earth.
Supreme Court Decisions: Archived, searchable holdings of cases to 1990.
SBA Online: The graphical home page of the Small Business Administration.
NASA: Overview of various NASA centers, archives, and general information.

Joseph Wu's Origami: Extraordinary examples of the paper-folding art.
GORP: Like the Great Outdoors? A page of info and links to al fresco activities.
Grand Canyon Nat'l Park: A solid-as-rock tour with images and loads of info.
ESPNet SportsZone: Cable channel's stats, scores, and schedules site.
The 19th Hole: Tee off here for golf info; has (of course) links to other sites.
The Virtual Pub: Beer aficionados' paradise, with "interacitve tastings."

CancerNet: The National Cancer Institute's site, with patient and doctor info.
The Safer Sex Page: Educational info on the spread of AIDS and STDs.
Internet Health Resources: Guides you to Net areas by subject.

AT&T 800 Directory: Search for the toll-free phone number you need.
FedEx Home Page: Where the heck's my FedEx Package? You'll find out here.
Job Search: A list of annotated links to employment-related sites on the Net.
Best of Investment: Nine categories of the best Web money resources.
Koblas Currency Converter: How many rubles or pesos? Updated database.
Consumer Info Center: A highway sign guides access to CIC's pamphlets.
DealerNet: Browse virtual car showrooms and related automotive services.
The Hall of Malls: A directory to all the Web's virtual shopping centers.

Uncle Bob's Kids' Page: Links to sites of interest to the young ones.
College Pages: A list of 750 college and university main home pages, from MIT.
NetFrog: Interactive Frog Dissection uses GIFs and video to very real effect.

City.Net: Guide to city pages worldwide; see its "Virtual Tourist" world map.
USA CityLink: Links to city-based pages in the United States.
Free-Nets Home Page: Links to regional public-access nets with Web sites.

List of Usenet FAQs: Every Internet Frequently Asked Question in one place.
Dictionary of Computing: Glossary of terms from programming, platforms, etc.
Webster's: A searchable hypertext interface to Webster's English Dictionary.
Commercial Services on the Net: Look up PC vendors' Web sites.

Useless WWW Pages: You're not really wasting your time online until you're here.
Web's Worst: A daily guide to bizarre pages, with equally strange commentary.
Justin's Links From the Underground: Tour of Net culture's dark side.
Zarf's List: Pointers to interactive Web games and toys, like the Magic 8-Ball.
CyberSight: Real-time conversation on the Web; highly clickable.
World Birthday Web: Whose birthday is it? Enter your own in the database.
Countdown!: Counts the number of days/minutes/seconds to the millennium.
Name That Tune: Download rock 'n' roll sound blips and identify them!
The Band Name Server: This is fun, even if you're not in a band.
Nomadic Research Labs: Writings of a man traveling the world by bicycle.
Lite-Brite: Do your own drawings using a screen version of the classic toy.