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Hackers

The classic hackers were explorers, those whose sole interest was learning as much as possible about the electronic systems that fascinated them. Some hackers might take excursions into other computer systems, and took the utmost care to disturb nothing; however, this was not their focus. Their goal was not destruction, nor profit, nor revenge; their goal was the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of conquest. A true hacker believes that information should be free, and that pushing the envelope of what is possible should be a daily occurence. They believe that every system is ripe for improvement, whether the system is a computer, a program, a set of traffic lights, or a government.

If you want to learn more about hackers and who they really are, pick up these books:

• Hackers by Steven Levy (especially Part 1)
• The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling - available bound or on the Web, and is literary freeware!
• The Devouring Fungus by Karla Jennings.

Table of Contents

• People
• General
• Linus Torvalds
• Internet Protocols
• General Standards and RFCs
• TCP/IP
• DHCP and BOOTP
• DNS
• FTP and TFTP
• Organizations
• Standards Organizations
• Free Software
• Hacker Organizations
• Political Organizations
• Privacy and Cryptography
• Miscellaneous
• Culture and Education
• General
• Cool Hacks
• Antique Computers and Computing History
• Dirty Business
• Literature
• Fiction
• Privacy
• The Computer Industry
• Hacker Culture and the Hacker Underground
• Star Trek
• Technical Information
• USENET and Newsgroups
• Web Search Engines
• Telephony
• Hardware
• BeBox
• Software
• General
• Parallel Processing
• The teco Text Editor
• The vi Text Editor
• The emacs Text Editor
• Network Analyzers
• Software Archives
• MSDOS Software Archives
• Apple Macintosh Software and Archives
• Apple II Software and Archives
• Multi-platform Software Archives
• Other Interesting Software Sites and Archives
• Lynx
• Other Browsers
• Viruses
• UNIX
• Linux
• Linux Distributions
• Linux Implementations
• Beowulf
• Major Linux Projects
• Linux Graphics
• Linux Kernel
• Linux (and UNIX) Software
• Installing Linux via NFS
• Linux History
• Linux Resources
• BSD 4.4 Derivatives
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • General BSD
• Minix
• UNIX Resources
• Issues and Politics
• General
• Microsoft
• Intel
• Censorship
• Clipper
• Court Cases
• U.S. Communications Decency Act (CDA)
• The Church of Scientology
• Domain Name Lawsuits
• Compuserve and the GIF Graphics Format
• The Internet Worm
• Privacy and Cryptography
• Companies
• Interactive Fiction
• Newsgroups
• General Links
• Programming Systems
• Entertainment
• General
• The X FIles
• Star Trek: First Stops
• Other Good Star Trek Sites
• Video Cameras (Cams) Connected to the Net
• Interesting Items Connected to the Internet
• Space
• Amateur Radio
• Governmental Organizations
• Disaster Relief Organizations
• Private Organizations
• Amateur Radio Equipment Manufacturers
• Retail Companies
• Used Equipment For Sale or Trade
• Callsign Servers
• Local Organizations (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
• Weather (Amateur Related)
• QRP (Low Power Operations)
• Morse Code
• Documentation and Reference
• (Non-Local) Clubs
• News Magazines
• Newsgroups
• Software
• Online Exams
• Miscellaneous Specialties
• General Collections of Links
• Miscellaneous
• Free Fax
• Free Email Addresses
• General
• Fidonet

People

General

• Peter Deutsch - one of the architects of archie and whois++
• David Nugent - BNU (a FOSSIL for Fidonet programs) and Inspecta (a program filer with Fidonet capabilities) - is now also a FreeBSD Developer and also apparently is involved with The Fidonet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC)
• Randy Bush
• Philip R. Zimmerman - creator of Pretty Good Privacy - also an interview by download.com
• Richard Stallman - Better Society Through Free Software: Richard M. Stallman Interview - an interview by The Tokyo Linux Users Group
• Bjarne Stroustrup's Home Page - creator of C++
• John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) - notorious hacker figure who also played a part in the history of Apple Computer
• John Quarterman
• Steve Wozniak (The Woz) - co-founder of Apple Computer
• John McCarthy - AI icon
• DJ Delorie - creator of DJGPP, a 32-bit C/C++ compiler for i386 MSDOS PCs
• Paul Lutus - creator of AppleWriter (the best word processor of its time!
• Marvin Minsky - creator of LISP and one of AI's earliest proponents
• Seymour Papert - creator of LOGO
• John Walker - founder of Autodesk and writer of The Autodesk File
• Wynn Wagner - creator of some Fidonet protocols - ww3@global.org
• Vince Perriello - creator of the Fidonet-Opus-Seadog System Interface Layer (FOSSIL) and BinkleyTerm (now spun off to BinkleyTerm XE) - vincepe@microsoft.com

Linus Torvalds

Linus is the creator of Linux, and is quite popular with the Internet and Linux crowd.
• Interview with Linus Torvalds: What Motivates Free Software Developers? by First Monday
• Open Source Guru
• National Public Radio's Dan Charles Talks with Linus Torvalds on April 8, 1998 (in RealAudio - 8:13)
• Insider Profile: Interview with Linus Torvalds by TechWeb Internet
• How Finnish Programmer's Quest Challenged Microsoft and Made Him a Net Star by San Jose Mercury News
• Linux Journal Interviews:
  • April 1994
  • October 1994
  • May 1996
• The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview - an interview by The Tokyo Linux Users Group
• You Asked For It: Linux Manifesto - an interview with Linus Torvalds by Boot Magazine
• About Linus Torvalds
• An Interview with Linus Torvalds by Linux Focus
• Linus Torvalds Talks Economics and Operating Systems - an interview with InfoWorld
• Linus Torvalds and Linux: An Interview with the Creator of Linux
• Giving It All Away (about Linux Torvalds and Linux)
• The Choice of a GNU Generation: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
• Linus Torvald's Home Page - creator of the Linux OS

The Internet

General Standards and RFCs

• Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
• The Internet Weather
• RFCs from Computer Information Services at Ohio State University
• Hyper-RFC
• Some interesting ANSI standards:
• X3.215-1994 - Computer Languages: FORTH
• X3.23-1985 (R1991) - Computer Languages: COBOL
• X3.226-1994 - Computer Languages: Common LISP
• X3.9-1978 (R1989) - Computer Languages: FORTRAN
• X3.198-1992 - Computer Languages: FORTRAN (Extended)

TCP/IP

• Web Interface to Whois from Network Intensive
• Web Interface to Whois from InterNIC
• Traceroute Utilities listed by Yahoo! - including Traceping
• Whois Services listed by Yahoo!
• Registration Services Resources - from the InterNIC
• RFC-1918 - Private Networks
• IP-Subnetworking
• RFC-1627 - Net 10 Harmful (argument against RFC-1918)
• Internet Tools for Netware Servers

DHCP and BOOTP

• DHCP FAQ
• RFC-1541 - DHCP Defined
• DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• Free DHCP Server from the Internet Software Consortium (also INN and BIND (DNS)!)
• DHCP Links from Net-Man
• The Bit-Bucket: Establishing TCP/IP Connectivity with good discussion on DHCP and BOOTP - including good set of Internet Tools for Netware Servers
• Cisco DHCP/DNS Products
• Internet Software Consortium
• Vicom DHCP
• IPWeb
• IP Addressing Tools: Containing the Chaos - from Data Communications
• Competitive Automation - Commercial DHCP Server
• Isotro - DHCP and DNS products
• Introduction to TCP/IP
• Conant's Corner: DHCP

NTP

• Network Time Sync Project
• David Mills - developer of the NTP protocol
• NTP Home Page
• Public NTP Time Servers, including Primary NTP Servers and Secondary NTP Servers

DNS

• AllDomains (gTLD-MoU)
• Internet International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) - dissolved May 1, 1997 - replaced by The Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU)
• American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
• Enhanced Domain Name Service (eDNS)
• The .web Internet Domain Registry (part of the eDNS)
• Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses - The U.S. Government's "Green Paper"
• Open Root Server Confederation
• MCSNet's Domain Registration Area for the .k12, .biz, .corp, and .npo domains - (part of the eDNS)
• Domain Registries Around the World
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
• The Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU)
• Council of Registrars (CORE)
• AlterNIC - alternative to the InterNIC
• DNS Resource Directory
• Register.Com - free domain registration
• Monolith Internet Services - extensive and free domain services
• Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) FAQ
• Domain FAQ
• DNS, DHCP, and BOOTP Servers for Windows NT

FTP and TFTP

• Links to come!

Organizations and Publications

Standards Organizations

• American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
• Internet Software Consortium
• MBONE - Internet multimedia transmission standard
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
• Internet International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) - dissolved May 1, 1997 - replaced by The Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU)
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
• Council of Registrars (CORE)
• The Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MoU)
• AlterNIC - alternative to the InterNIC
• Internet Society (ISOC)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Institute of Electrical and Elctronic Engineers (IEEE) - including Standards at IEEE
• The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Free Software

• Freenix - in French
• The GNU Project - including nice GNU online documentation at:
• MIT AI Lab
• DJ Delorie's Web Site
• University of Alberta
• isys.net and more
• The League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
• The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• The Free Software Union (FSU)

Hacker Organizations

• Phrack via FTP and via Web
• 2600 Magazine
• Hacking in Progress Convention (HIP) - August 1997
• Beyond HOPE Convention - August 1997 - sponsored by 2600 Magazine
• Chaos Computer Club (CCC) - Germany - pages partially in German and partially in English
• Welcome to CCC Web Site! (English)

Political Organizations

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Hacker Defense Fund
• Citizen's Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC)
• Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Internet Mail Consortium
• Global Internet Liberty Campaign
• Peacefire, including the Cyber Rights And Digital Liberty Encyclopedia (CRADLE)
• Voter's Telecomm Watch
• Families Against Internet Censorship (FAIC)
• Congressional Internet Caucus (United States)

Privacy and Cryptology (Ciphers and Codes)

• Remailer List
• Internet Privacy Coalition
• Privacy International - administered by EPIC
• CypherNet
• Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. - you must check out this site!
• MIT Distribution Site for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) Software - version 5.0 for Windows 95, MacOS System 7.5+; version 2.6.2 for MSDOS, Unix, and MacOS prior to System 7.5
• Crypto

Miscellaneous

• The Bandwidth Conservation Society (BCS)
• HTML Writer's Guild

USENET and Newsgroups

• alt.hackers
• alt.hackers.discuss
• alt.hackers.groups
• alt.hackers.malicious
• alt.2600
• alt.comp.virus
• comp.virus
• rec.arts.int-fiction - for programmers and writers of interactive fiction
• rec.games.int-fiction - for players of interactive fiction
• rec.radio.amateur.swap
• rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
• rec.radio.amateur.equipment
• rec.radio.amateur.antenna
• rec.radio.amateur.dx
• rec.radio.amateur.policy
• NewzBot! - a list of free news servers
• The Daily News: Original Zippo's News Service - Web-based access to newsgroups
• Deja News - Search Internet newsgroups
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• Usenet via the Web!
• Newsgroup FAQ's
• People Helping One Another Know Stuff (PHOAKS)

- scans newsgroups for and classifies web links - cool!

Web Search Engines

• Inference Find
• The Ultimate Home Page Index
• Lycos
• Starting Point - search multiple engines from one jump point
• Alta Vista - courtesy of Digital Equipment Corp.
• Deja News - search USENET
• Infoseek - very nice!
• Beaucoup Software Search Engines - links to over 500 search engines!

Culture and Education

General

• The Education of a Hacker - an essay from Eric Fair about how he became a hacker
• Geek Code - get your geek code today!
• Subway Navigator - world-wide!
• San Jose Mercury News - good tech news
• The MIT Wearable Computing Web Page
• Kasperov v. Deep Blue
• The Darwin Awards
• Annals of Improbability Research - funny!
• Stupid Tricks - funny!
• Caffeine Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Jolt Cola
• NetHistory
• The WELL - 11 years old!
• The Hacker Crackdown
• Stories of the Computer Incompetent - funny!
• UNIX Manual Page for lart(1m) - funny!
• KansasFest

Cool Hacks

• Have you ever lit your barbeque with Liquid Oxygen??
• Lavarand - generate random numbers from six "Lava Lamps" (six what? - yes six lava lamps!)
• Gallery of classic MIT hacks - a must see!

Antique Computers and Computing History

• The Little TRS-80 That Could - the first telnettable TRS-80 on the Internet and home of the original SearchLight BBS
• AI Attic - in particular, Classic Programs are available, including Adventure, Eliza, Life, and Doctor, among others
• Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) at the Scalable Computing Laboratory of Ames National Laboratory
• Obsolete Computer Museum - including a list of Very, Very Smart People (that is, other lists of Obsolete and Historical Computer resources)
• Retrocomputing Museum
• Historical Computer Society
• Machines - see what one person is doing with old hardware
• Computerseum
• Multics Emacs: The History, The Design, and Implementation
• Computing Machine Museums on the Web
• The Computer Museum Network
• The Tech Museum of Innovation
• Inventure Place - the National Inventor's Hall of Fame
• Computer Science Museum at University of California-Davis
• Virtual Computer History Museum
• The Virtual Museum of Computing
• ENIAC - to celebrate ENIAC's 50th Anniversary (by the US Army)
• Carl Friend's Minicomputer Museum
• Paul Pierce's Computer Collection
• Kevan's Computer Bits
• Apple Computer History - 1976 to present day
• Apple History and Overview
• Computer History Association of California
• Apple II History

Dirty Business

• Hacking Index Page at NerdWorld
• Kevin's H/P/A/V/C Page
• Lee Benoit's Home Page
• Silicon Toad's Home Page - Hacking Resources
• Manifesto Mac
• HackUser
• World of Hacking
• The Internet Underground
• Information on Department of Justice and CIA hacked web pages

Literature

Fiction

• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• Count Zero - William Gibson
• Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
• Burning Chrome - William Gibson
• Difference Engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Privacy

• Privacy Rights Handbook - The Privacy Rights Clearing House (Dale Fetherling, Editor)
• Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World - Ann Cavoukian and Don Tapscott
• Protect Your Privacy on the Internet - Bryan Pfaffenberger
• Steal This Computer Book: What They Don't Tell You about the Internet - Wallace Wang
• Internet Privacy Kit - Marcus Goncalves and Arthur Donkers
• PGP - Simson Garfinkel
• Official PGP User's Guide - Philip R. Zimmerman
• Internet Cryptography - Richard E. Smith

The Computer Industry

• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire - James Wallace and Jim Ericson
• Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace - James Wallace
• On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple Computer - Gil Amelio
• The Third Apple: Personal Computers and the Cultural Revolution - Jean-Louis Gasse (out of print)
• The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
• Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, The Computer that Changed Everything - Steven Levy
• The Autodesk File: Bits of History, Words of Experience - John Waler, editor (out of print)
• The Matrix - John Quarterman
• Programmers at Work - Susan Lammers, editor (out of print)
• Inventors at Work - Kenneth A. Brown (out of print)
• Fire in the Valley - Paul Freiberger (out of print)
• West of Eden: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer - Frank Rose (out of print)
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet - Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
• Architects of the Web: 1000 Days That Built the Future of Business - Robert Reid

Hacker Culture and the Hacker Underground

• The Devouring Fungus - Karla Jennings
• Hackers - Steven Levy
• Cyberpunks: Outlaw and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner and John Markoff
• The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage - Clifford Stoll
• The Masters of Deception - Michele Slatalla, Joshua Quittner
• The Fugitive Game - Jonathan Littman
• Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - by the Man Who Did It - Tsutomu Shimomura, John Markoff
• Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier - Bruce Sterling
• Out of the Inner Circle: A Hackers Guide to Computer Security - Bill "The Cracker" Landreth (out of print)
• The Virus Creation Labs: A Journey into the Underground - George Smith
• The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses - Mark A. Ludwig (out of print)
• Secrets of a Super Hacker - the Knightmare
• The Watchman - Jonathan Littman
• Protecting Yourself Online: The Definitive Resource on Safety, Freedom, and Privacy in Cyberspace - Robert Gelman, Stanton McCandlish, and the staff of The Electronic Frontier Foundation

Star Trek

• Klingon Dictionary - Marc Okrand
• The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide - Marc Okrand
• Conversational Klingon - Marc Okrand
• Power Klingon - Marc Okrand and Barry Levine
• The Secret Fighting Arts of the Warrior Race, Vol. 1 - Chet Braun and Tom Twohy (out of print)
• Star Trek: A Reference Guide to the Future - Michael and Denise Okuda
• Inside Star Trek: The Real Story - Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman

Technical Information

• The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System - Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman
• Unix in a Nutshell: System V v2.0 - Daniel Gilly
• Unix Systems Programming for System V r4 - Dave A. Curry
• Unix in a Nutshell: Berkeley (out of print)
• Learning Perl - Randall Schwartz and Larry Wall
• Programming Perl - Randall Schwartz, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Stephen Potter
• The Perl Resource Kit: Unix Edition - David Futato, Nathan Patwardhan, Clay Irving, and Larry Wall
• Inside the PC - Peter Norton and John Goodman
• Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Peter Norton and Michael Desmond
• Upgrading and Repairing Win95 - Peter Norton
• The Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible - Premiere Edition - Winn Rosch

Other

• Esperanto Dictionary - J. C. Wells
• Teach Yourself Esperanto - John Cresswell and John Hartley
• Now You're Talking: All You Need to Get Your Ham Radio Technician License - Larry D. Wolfgang and Joel Kleinman (editors)

General

There are so many different starting points. Because of this, only a few of the most interesting "general" pages are included (specific books are detailed below). For the most general page, go to the Computers & Internet page or the Amazon Main Page. These links are in no particular order.

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Amazon Main Page Computers & Internet Wired Culture Security & Encryption Net History & Trends The X Files

CyberCulture Archives Computer Languages - including my personal favorites: LISP, SmallTalk, COBOL, Perl, and C/C++ Software Platforms Macintosh TCP/IP

UNIX Linux BSD Systems & Hardware System Architecture - includes Parallel Computing Certification

Telephony

• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)
• North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) Working Documents
• North American Numbering Council
• International Numbering Committee - with a nice set of technical documents (be sure you have a Word viewer handy - UGH!)
• North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
• North American Numbering Plan Administration
• Telecom Links

Hardware

General

• The Silicon Zone
• The Electronics Pages
• Unofficial AMD/NexGen Home Page
• Ethernet
• Chip Directory
• Tom's Hardware Guide

BeBox

• Be, Inc. - home of the BeBox
• BeBox Developer's Page - everything you ever wanted to know about the BeBox
• Linux for PowerPC - including BeBox, PowerMac, and others
• PowerPC

Software

General

• DJGPP - a freeware 32-bit C/C++ compiler for i386 MSDOS
• Ralf S. Engelschall's net.sw - freely available UNIX software packages from the net!
• The GNU Project (GNU's Not Unix)
• GNU-Win32 Project Page
• Intel Secrets Revealed
• Info-Zip - free PKZip replacement for MSDOS and UNIX
• Sniffit - a network packet sniffer for UNIX
• Ping O' Death Page - every sysadmin should read this page! - with mirrors in the UK and somewhere else
• Mobile IP - Supporting Transparent Host Migration on the Internet
• Minuet Frequently Asked Questions - about Minuet (all-in-one DOS Internet tool - Gopher, FTP, Usenet, WWW, etc.)

Parallel Processing

• PVM Library
• Parallel Virtual Machine Home Page (PVM)
• Condor - job scheduler
• Parallel Processing for Linux
• Introduction to Linda - a language for parallel computing
• Nan's Parallel Computing Page

The teco Text Editor

There are those who might wonder why anyone would want to edit in TECO. I can't speak as a TECO fanatic, or even a practiced TECO user, but it appears to me that there isn't an editor anywhere that can match its power to size ratio - that is, its capabilities are extensive while its size is small. After all, EMACS was written in TECO to start with. However, that's not enough to make me give up vi.
• Text Editing with TECO
• TECO Archives at the University of Trier (Germany)
• TECO Archives at a SunSITE at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• TECO Archives at the University of Southern California
• Teco Archives - apparently including a mirror of the USC Teco Archives

The vi Text Editor


• The VI Archives (mirrored at uu.net) - look for mirror closest to you!
• VIM Home Page (a vi clone) - with other VIM links!
• VIM for Win32
• vi Powered! and Original Site (in spanish)
• vi Links from Yahoo!
• vi Lovers Home Page
• Vi Pages
• Lemmy - a vi clone for Windows 95/NT or Windows 3.1 (32-bit)
• Javi - a vi clone for Java
• vi Tutor
• An Introduction to Display Editing with vi - by Bill Joy
• VI - the Visual Editor
• vi Editor FAQ - created at Macom Networking (Israel) - also mirrors at Ben Gurion University Department of Math and Computer Science in Israel and University of Edinburgh Department of Geology and Geophysics (by Mark Higgins) in the United Kingdom

The emacs Text Editor

• Emacs Reference
• Emacs/w3 v4.0
• Emacs Stuff
• Viper - vi-emulator for Emacs - make your emacs editor act like something more powerful
• ELISP Introduction
• Emacs FAQ and Emacs Guide from the UNIX Reference Desk at www.geek-girl.com
• The GNU ELISP Reference Manual
• HTML Macros for MicroEmacs

Network Analyzers

• NetMinder Ethernet - commercial software for Macintosh from Neon Software, Inc.

Software Archives

MSDOS Software Archives

• Freeware and Shareware
• The Slaughterhouse
• Massachusets Institute of Technology
• Free Man - lots of free stuff! ... but some shareware
• The Internet Wiretap
• Ambit - the Web Waystation
• NoNags
• Pass The Shareware

Apple Macintosh Software and Archives

• Pure Mac
• Mac Orchard
• Search Macintosh Archives to the University of Michigan Macintosh Archives
• Andrew's MacTCP Drive-Thru
• Chip's MacOS Pages
• Macworld
• Cult of Macintosh - you have to see it to believe it! Check out this site!
• Everything Macintosh
• Queen's University at Kingston - Macintosh Users Online Services
• Internet Interstate's Macintosh Web
• Ryan's Mac World
• Ultimate Mac Site - pretty close to true!
• Dave's Top 10 Mac Games and Utilities
• Express VR - VRML for Macintosh
• Hackintosh's Domain
• The Updated Mac
• Macintosh Resource
• The Mac Evangelist - by Guy Kawasaki.... get the word out!
• Made with Macintosh Campaign
• Mac Internet Helpers

Apple II Software and Archives

• Procyon, Inc. - sellers of GNO/ME
• EGO Systems
• Apple I
• Apple II Forever Page
• Apple II Info (gone?)
• GNO/ME - UNIX for the Apple IIgs
• Caltech Apple II Archives
• Internex Online Apple II Web Server
• Apple II Emulators
• Apple II Info
• The XGS Apple IIgs Emulator
• Apple II Resources including the Apple II FAQ
• Apple II Sites
• Apple II FTP/WWW Site List
• Apple II Web
• University of Iowa Apple II Archives
• Apple II Stuff

Multi-platform Software Archives

• Link Everything Online (also in German) - includes Software Archives
• Virtual Software Library - hosted at Garbo
• Prime-Time Freeware
• Freeware Central
• Filez
• FTP Search
• The Legendary Simtel Archives (once known as Simtel-20)
• Tucows Software Search
• c|net - shareware
• Stroud's CWS Apps List
• Beaucoup Software Search Engines
• Search the Web - Multiple-Engine/Multipurpose Search! - from
• Sympatico

Other Interesting Software Sites and Archives

• OS-9 Archive WebServer from Real-Time Services, Inc.
• Program.Com
• galtech.com
• ZDNet Software Library
• WinSite: Windows Software
• Walnut Creek CDROM Software
• SunSITE at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - lots of software
• Chevy Chase Computers - nice jumping off point
• National University of Singapore
• InternetU - interesting
• download.net

Lynx

• RealmSpace for the DOS
• DOS Email
• Lynx FAQ - Al's Pics from Lynx Mail
• Lynx for MSDOS
• Lynx Home Page
• What Does Your HTML Look Like in Lynx?
• Lynx-Me
• Lynx-It!
• Extremely Lynx
• Lynx - good list of resources from Yahoo!
• Bobcat - DosLynx descendant
• DOS Internet Pages
• DOS and Windows Ports of Lynx

Other Browsers

• WebServer Compare
• The List - ISP Buyers Guide
• Emacs/w3 v4.0
• The pwWebSpeak Project - including Index and Evaluation Copy
• Opera - my favorite!
• Net-Tamer
• Arachne - graphical DOS browser (requires CGA+)
• Video On Line (VOL) Browser
• Minuet
• Overview from CREN, Download, and FAQ
• NCSA Mosaic - the one that started it all
• Spin - graphical DOS browser (requires SVGA or better)
• Knot - graphical DOS browser (works in Hercules Graphics too!)
• Browsers - massive list from Yahoo!
• BrowserWatch

Viruses

This is not about sources for anti-viral programs, but about sources for information about viruses, how they work, what they are, how to fight them, and more! Information gleaned from these sources is to be used by the surfer/hacker for non-destructive uses only (or you should not call yourself a hacker!).
• Trend Micro, Inc. - lots of virus info!
• Viruses
• The Legacy
• Sirkus
• Virus Source Code
• Venomous Virii
• Virus Archive
• Virus Bulletin
• Computer Virus Information - from Datafellows, Inc.
• Chiba City Blues: Virus Research Center (VRC)
• West Coast Institute of Virus Research (WCIVR)
• Virus, Inc.
• Virus Links from NerdWorld
• Debunking Virus Myths
• Computer Virus Myths
• More Virus Details
• Information Liberation Front (ILF) - including:
• Virus Information via FTP
• Virus and Other Fine Code Authors (VOFCA)
• Nightmare Joker's Virii Page
• Raven's Virii-Land
• RickDogg's Virus Home Page
• Cool Virii Section
• Dark Chasm's Virii Page
• The Eifel Epidemic
• LOGINET - Hacking Realm
• Dr. Solomon
• Virus Information (extensive!) at McAfee Associates
• The Original J and A Computer Virus Information Page
• Virus Programming
• Computer Virus Research Labs (CVRL) - CDROM available!
• Cicatrix

UNIX

Linux



Linux Distributions

• List of Distributions from Linux Online - including English and non-English Distributions
• RedHat - source of the Red Hat Linux Distribution and other Linux products
• Kheops - a French distribution of RedHat
• Conectiva - a Brazilian distribution of RedHat
• Caldera - one of the most popular English Linux distributions, including a great page of links
• Debian Linux Distribution
• Yggdrasil - a classic Linux distribution
• Walnut Creek CDROM - great source for FreeBSD and Linux CDROMs, including The FreeBSD FTP Archive and the Linux Slackware96 Distribution
• InfoMagic

Linux Implementations

• The Linux/m68k Home Pages
• Linux/m68k for Macintosh: The Project
• MacLinux 68K
• Be_Linux - Linux for BeBox
• Linux for PowerPC - including BeBox, PowerMac, and others
• MkLinux - Apple's Port of Linux for PowerMacs
• Linux/SMP and Linux/8086
• Linux/Alpha
• Alpha Linux (UDB) Information Page
• Real-Time Linux (RT-Linux)
• Linux Page at O'Reilly and Associates
• SimpleFixes for Slackware
• Tri-Linux from Linux Systems Labs - three distributions on one CDROM - Debian, Slackware, and RedHat, including XFree86

Beowulf

Beowulf Project - creating a clustered (parallel processing) PC environment based on (mostly) Intel-type hardware using freely available tools like Red Hat Linux.

Beowulf Linux Clusters:

• Hyglac at the Earth and Space Sciences Project of the JPL High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC)
• theHIVE at Goddard Space Flight Center
• PACET at George Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• SWARM at Oregon State University's Department of Computer Science
• Drexel University
• Grendel at Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory at Clemson University
• Aeneas Supercomputer at the University of California at Irvine
• CalTech
• Loki at the Los Alamos National Labs
• Avalon, a DEC Alpha Beowulf cluster also at Los Alamos National Labs
• The Stone SouperComputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Environmental Sciences Division (ESD)
• Topcat at University of Southern Queensland (Australia) Department of Mathematics and Computing
• LoBoS in the Computational Biophysics Section at the National Institutes of Health
• UWM LSC Group Beowulf System at the Physics Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Alice 2 at the Scalable Computing Laboratory with the Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa
• AnimalFarm - the MPII Linux Cluster Project at the Max-Planck-Insitut fur Informatik (Germany)
• DAISy at the Sandia National Laboratories
• Texas Tech Tornado Cluster (T3C) at the High Performance Computing Laboratory at Texas Tech University
• Pentium Farm at the University of Mannheim (Germany)
• Mad Dog at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's Physics Department
• Hermes at the Deutsches Elekronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
• JazzNet at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
• MAGI - a Linux Cluster Supercomputer for the Speech Recognition Group at CTU-Prague
• Brahma at Duke University Department of Physics

Major Linux Projects

• Linux Netatalk
• Netatalk - the AppleTalk Protocol Suite for UNIX
• Linux Netatalk HOW-TO
• IP Masquerade
• Diald - Internet on Demand for Linux SLIP and PPP Connections
• The Linux Documentation Project - also another LDP page at Caldera
• Linux CD and Support Giveaway
• Linux ATM
• Wine - a Windows Emulator
• Linux International
• Samba - lets Linux network with Windows NT, Windows 95, and Windows for Workgroups
• Linux Networking Project
• DOS EMU (Dos Emulator) Home Page
• Lilo Home Site
• Microchannel Linux - Linux for IBM PS/2s
• Linux in High Performance Computing

Linux Graphics

• Greg's Linux Icons
• Kevin's Linux Icons

Linux Kernel

• Psyched Linux Kernels - most recent kernels always
• GCC Signal 11 FAQ - how to kill the Signal 11 errors from gcc when compiling a Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Source Code and FreeBSD Kernel Source Code in hypertext! from Tama Communications in Japan
• Kernel Changes - but only as far as 1.14 or so
• Kernelmail - get Linux kernel updates by mail!

Linux (and UNIX) Software

• Linux Kernel Patch for NexGen Processor-based Machines
• Linux Services for Mac and Windows Users
• Searchable Indexes for many archives at University of Iowa Archives
• HylaFAX - Fax software for UNIX

Installing Linux via NFS

These sites seem to disappear as fast as they appear, and often seem to limit themselves to local campuses. If you find a site that allows you to install NFS over the net, you'd better use it right away. These links are probably some of the most volatile on this list, so don't count on them working - pretty sad if you ask me.
• Red Hat Linux Installation from the University of Georgia
• Slackware Linux Installation from the University of Georgia
• Linux Install via NFS from NCSU

Linux History

• Linus v. Tanenbaum (or Linux v. Minix debate)
• The Greatest OS That (Never) Was

Linux Resources: First Stops

 
• The RPM Repository
• The Linux Kernel Archives - - this is the main distribution point for new Linux Kernels - but it has more! than just kernels
• LinuxHQ
• Linux Web Watcher
• Linux FTP Watcher
• Linux NOW!
• Woven Goods for Linux - now available for download!
• Linux v2 Information Headquarters
• MK Archive at SUNET, the Swedish University Network's FTP Archive
• The Wizard's Linux Page
• Linux Resources at Yahoo
• Plasma Linux Web Server (Israel)
• The WebWanderer's List of Linux Resources

General Linux Resources

• Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation
• The Linux Forum
• Harry's Linux Page - and Harry's Home Page with more up-to-date links
• Installation of Oracle v7.0.16.4.0 for SCO Unix on Linux v1.2.1
• Linux User Support Team
• Chris Freyer's Linux Page
• Index of Lugnuts - Linux User Groups
• The Linux Problem Solving Page
• Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation
• The Linux Project (seems to have disappeared!) - http://www.visi.com/~hjeand/Linux.html
• Linux Information
• Linux Advertizing Campaign
• Alaskan Linux Page
• Linux Internet Support Cooperative - primary based on IRC
• The Linux New Users Message Board
• Linux Modules Home Page
• Brief How-To for Linux Modules
• OSF Microkernel and Linux
• The Linux Machine
• Linux Resources By Topic
• The Linux Configuration Page

BSD 4.4 Derivatives

This section contains information about several UNIX variants that are direct descendents of the 4.4 Berkeley System Distribution code. The main variants seem to be FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. FreeBSD seems to be the most popular, but mainly just runs on the i386 (IBM PC-based). NetBSD (and OpenBSD, a derivative of NetBSD) will run on just about anything.

FreeBSD





• The Official FreeBSD Home Page
• The FreeBSD Documentation Project
• The FreeBSD Handbook
• FreeBSD FAQ for 2.x
• Hyperlinked FreeBSD 2.2.1 Source Tree - nice!
• A Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD
• FreeBSD How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless
• Issue 1 and Issue 2 of the FreeBSD Newsletter
• The Complete FreeBSD from Walnut Creek - with or without four CDs containing FreeBSD - also available are a FreeBSD four CDROM set, a FreeBSD 3.0 Snapshot (an experimental FreeBSD release), FreeBSD Polo Shirts, and FreeBSD T-Shirts
• "Making the World" Your Own - how to build the FreeBSD kernel

NetBSD

• The Official NetBSD Home Page - including information about NetBSD for Intel386, Mac68k, and many others!
• Puma's NetBSD/mac68k Pages
• NetBSD/mac68k
• NetBSD Hints and Tips (currently not available)
• Readme File for MkLinux - useful for assisting in the setup of OpenBSD/mac68k and NetBSD/mac68k

OpenBSD

• The Official OpenBSD Home Page
• OpenBSD FAQ - including a HTML version and also the old OpenBSD FAQ
• OpenBSD Hypertext Man Pages
• Getting OpenBSD: help support OpenBSD by buy a CDROM; otherwise use ftp to download OpenBSD
• Errata on the Current OpenBSD Release
• More links to OpenBSD and UNIX Documentation
• OpenBSD on the iMac
• Readme File for MkLinux - useful for assisting in the setup of OpenBSD/mac68k and NetBSD/mac68k

General BSD

• Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI)
• 4.4 Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Documentation - in postscript
• The Official 386BSD Home Page
• *BSD FAQ Site
• Operating Freely - comparison of three free UNIXes and story of author's work in porting NetBSD to Sun4

Minix

• Minix Home Page
• MacMINIX

Other UNIX Versions

A good thing to note is that almost all commercial versions of UNIX are based on UNIX System V (not BSD).
• Free offers from SCO - single-user licenses of all SCO products for cost of media and production, including SCO Unixware 2.1, SCO Java Development Kit, SCO Merge 4.0, SCO OpenServer, SCO Skunkware '97, and SCO UnixWare 7

UNIX Resources

• Harker Systems Sendmail Reference Page
• The Pine Information Center at the University of Washington (where Pine originated!)
• UnixWorld Online
• UNIXHelp Home Page at University of Edinburgh - excellent hypertext UNIX help system - check out University of Edinburgh UNIXHelp Installation
• UNIX Reference Desk
• UNIX Guru's Universe - 50 variants of UNIX supported!
• Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) - emulate Macintoshes on Suns and HP workstations! Check out the large (220K plus) screen shot
• Jeff's UNIX Vault

Issues and Politics

General

• Remailer List
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
• Intellectual Property Issues from Electronic Frontiers Georgia
• Web Law FAQ
• Cypherpunks
• Voice on the Net - lobbying against the ACTA petition of the FCC (telephone companies fight against Internet phone software etc.)
• General resource on civil liberties on the net
• Green Ribbon Campaign at Zondervan Publishing, a Christian book publisher (possibly the largest)
• Resources of Declan McCullagh:
• Plague of Freedom - global attempts to censor the Internet and control Internet speech
• Net Censorship and Zambian Dictators - detailed info about Net censorship in Zambia
• Marty Rimm's CyberPorn Study - serious questions about reliability and ethical issues
• Fight-Censorship Subscriptions - mailing list

Microsoft



This section contains links to details about Microsoft's anti-competitive practices, including boycotts, editorials, and lawsuits. Rants may or may not be here; humour is not.

What's wrong with Microsoft? Check out my page and you tell me if you like this company.

Be warned that some of the more dubious sites will take a proactive anti-Internet-Explorer view, and may activate Java scripts to shut down Internet Explorer. None of these should be listed here, but they may be listed elsewhere. Caveat emptor!

• Bristol v. Microsoft
• Caldera v. Microsoft
• U.S. v. Microsoft
• Sun v. Microsoft
• Boycott Microsoft - possibly the best - including bumper stickers and a French language mirror
• The Microsoft Boycott Campaign (MSBC)
• Commentary: Boycott Microsoft
• Smash Microsoft
• Don't be Soft on Microsoft! - including a newsletter, The Micro$oft Monitor - both from NetAction
• Yet Another Microsoft-Oriented Oracle (YAMOO)
• Microsoft Watch (not the same as - or as good as - MicrosoftWatch) - by Paul Hsieh - watch out for the Apple-bashing (unfortunate and unnecessary) and for the "Internet Explorer Uninstall directions" (snooty and also unnecessary).
• MicrosoftWatch (not the same as Microsoft Watch) - from the Mercury Center run by the San Jose Mercury News
• The Support for People Used BY Microsoft
• Life after Microsoft - a speculative look at what would happen after a break-up of Microsoft
• Anti-Microsoft Association - also provides a Java script to encourage Internet Explorer users to switch to non-Microsoft products (most informative - and non-vicious - one I've seen!)
• Wintel World - your complete anti-PC resource
• The Anti-Microsoft Network - informative
• The Microsoft Menace - an article by Ralph Nader
• The Appraising Microsoft Conference - organized by Ralph Nader, among others
• From MSWord to MSWorld - a whitepaper from NetAction
• Anti Microsoft Products - T-shirts, cups, hats, and stickers
• BillWatch - keep tabs on Microsoft and Mr. Bill
• Convergence International - a user group for non-Windows and non-Intel platforms
• Microsoft's Real Browser Strategy

Intel

• Intel Secrets Revealed
- what Intel doesn't want you to know
• Wintel World
- your complete anti-PC resource
• Intergraph v. Intel
• Convergence International - a user group for non-Windows and non-Intel platforms
• Anti-Intel Association - a counterpart to the Anti-Microsoft Association
• IntelWatch

Censorship

• StopCensorship.com
• EFF Index
• Index on Censorship
• Drop Out! by Net Censorship - bilingual: English/German
• Cyber Censors - PC Magazine article - February 20, 1996
• Censorship and the Net  - resource list from Yahoo
• Cyber Rights Under Attack! - from Hotwired
• Net Censorship Crisis: Leading the Fight - also from Hotwired
• XS4All - Dutch ISP the German authorities tried to censor

Clipper

• The Clipper Chip
• Clipper Chip Information from the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

Court Cases, Past and Present

See below for information about the Communications Decency Act.

 

• ACLU v. Reno
• American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice
• Software Publishers Association v. C2.Net
• Electronic Frontiers Georgia v. State of Georgia
• Intel v. Robert Collins ("Intel Secrets Revealed") - ridiculous trademark infringement case
• Karn v. U.S. Department of State - the Applied Cryptography Case - involving Phil Karn, KA9Q
• Steve Jackson - founder of Steve Jackson Games and sufferer of "Operation Sundevil"
• Legal Beat - general information on many cases
• Cryptography and Speech - including info on Bernstein v. U.S. Department of State
• CyberLaw
• Caldera, Inc. vs. Microsoft Corporation

The US Communications Decency Act (CDA)

This includes data about the court cases ACLU v. Reno and the American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice.
• Amicus Curae Brief (full text) from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, Attorneys for Amici Curiae - also lots of good information about ACLU v. Reno
• ACLU v. Reno Decision (full text) from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• (United States) Senator Feingold's Response - Feingold is the US Senator (Democrat) from Wisconsin
• CDA Opinion Editorial from the American Library Assocciation
• Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
• Citizen's Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC)
• EFF's list of sites that would be banned by the CDA
• CDA Coverage - from MSNBC
• Clarinet joins suit against CDA
• Legal Challenge to Internet Censorship
• Sites that would be banned
• Mr. Bill's Bill... The CDA
• The Declaration of Independence - for the Internet
• Internet Resource Guide to the CDA - both sides
• CDA Archives
• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) - used for parental control over Internet content for their children
• PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship

The Church of Scientology

This includes links to sites detailing the Church of Scientology's crusade against the Internet.
• The Church of Scientology v. the Net
• Scientology v. the Internet (article)
• Church of Scientology v. Fishman & Geertz
• EFF: Legal Cases - Church of Scientology

Domain Name Lawsuits

• Eric Schlachter's Domain Name Legal Bibliography
• Clue Computing, Inc. v. Network Solutions, Inc. - over clue.com
• Giacalone v. Network Solutions, Inc. and Ty, Inc. - about ty.com
• Hasbro, Inc. v. Internet Entertainment Group, Ltd. - over candyland.com
• Goliath Slays David! Not! - about Massachussetts Instutitute of Technology - mit.edu - putting the squeeze on Merritt Island Technologies, Inc. - mit.com
• Roadrunner Computer Systems, Inc. v. Network Solutions, Inc. - over roadrunner.com
• More about roadrunner.com
• Data Concepts, Inc. v. Digital Consulting, Inc. and Network Solutions, Inc.
• Internet Domain Names: Whose Domain is This?
• Trademarks on the Internet: Who's In Charge?
• Famous Trademarks - includes info about candyland.com
• NSI Flawed Domain Name Policy Information Page
• American Association of Domain Names (AADN)
• What's in a Name?

Compuserve and the GIF Graphics Format

• Information from the League for Programming Freedom
• More about Compuserve and GIF from the Webmasters

The Internet Worm

• Internet Worm Messages from Usenet (sent as it was happening)
• nic.funet.fi - authoritative, comprehensive, and detailed; mirror at wiretap.spies.com
• History of the Internet Worm

Privacy and Cryptography

• Private Parts Online - The International Privacy Newswire from Privacy Interational
• European Crypto Page
• W3C Intellectual Property Rights Overview - from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Citizen's Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC)
• Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Internet Privacy Coalition
• Privacy International - administered by EPIC
• Internet Society
• crypto.com
• Cryptographic Resources Page
• Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. - you must check out this site!

Companies

General

• PC/TCP - from the folks that brought you the packet driver (FTP Software)
• Apple
• Power Computing
• Borland
• Adobe - creators of Postscript
• Be, Inc. - home of the revolutionary BeBox
• NeXT, Inc. - now a part of its predecessor, Apple
• Sun Microsystems
• Silicon Graphics, Inc.
• Cray Research
• Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
• Bell Laboratories
• MIT Laboratory for Computer Science - formerly Project MAC
• MIT Artifical Intelligence Lab

Interactive Fiction

Newsgroups

• rec.arts.int-fiction - for programmers and writers of interactive fiction (FAQ) (web-based FAQ)
• rec.games.int-fiction - for players of interactive fiction (FAQ)
• rec.arts.int-fiction Online Archive

General Links

• Interactive Fiction Archive - excellent! - also mirrors in the United States and Finland
• Interactive Fiction from The Mining Company
• Web-based Index to the if-archive (with descriptions!)
• Authoring Systems FAQ
• The Adventure Game List
• The Society for Preservation of Adventure Games (SPAG)
• The Third Annual Interactive Fiction Competition
• The Interactive Fiction List at Yahoo!
• XYZZYnews - a magazine dedicated to interactive fiction - including lots of links listed alphabetically (and previously reviewed in XYZZYnews)
• The Craft of Adventure - a must read for new authors
• John's Interactive Fiction Page
• The Interactive Fiction Page
• Help on writing your own interactive fiction
• PDD's Adventure Page

Programming Systems

• Infocom (and related!):
• Infocom: Information Sold and Serviced Here - Home Page dedicated to Infocom
• Infocom CDs for sale! - including Lost Treasures of Infocom I and II and Masterpieces CDs
• Frotz - an interpreter for Infocom and Inform games
• The Alan Home Pages
• The Adventure Development System (TADS):
• TADS - some links and information
• The TADS Programming Page
• The TADS Page including the TADS Manual - Online!
• OASYS - excellent object-oriented programming system (and my personal favorite)
• Inform:
• Inform 6: A Design System for Interactive Fiction
• The Inform Designer's Manual - "webified"
• An Inform Tutorial
• Synapse Worldkit for Inform - online integrated interactive fiction development environment (log in as guest with password guest)
• Inform Programming

Entertainment

General

• The Outer Limits
• Toy Story - the first totally computer-generated film
• Tron
• Bladerunner

The X Files

• All the X File Links You Can Handle
• X Files

Star Trek: First Stops

• Star Trek: WWW - (in Italy) - a must-see! - and check out their fantastic list of Star Trek Web Links - and now an American mirror (?)
• PC's Guide to Star Trek
• The Definitive Star Trek Home Page
• Star Trek Page at Lycos (!)
• Another Star Trek Page at Lycos!
• Online Freedom Federation - Save Star Trek on the net!
• Kevin's Protest Page
• Star Trek First Contact - an archive presented by stfcweb.com
• Klingon Language Institute
• Let's Speak Klingon
• Klingon Homeworld
• The Languages of Star Trek (contains references to uncommon languages and resources!)
• Star Trek Books from Simon & Schuster (overloaded graphics pages)
• The Official Paramount Star Trek Web Site hosted by Microsoft (I knew they were good for something!)

Other Good Star Trek Sites

• Sci-Fi Central, including a not bad Star Trek Page
• Borg Institute of Technology (BIT)
• Star Trek Resources
• Excellent Star Trek Resources(from Japan!)
• Star Trek (Gilliam's Home Page)
• Locutus - a home page in the making (related to Star Trek: WWW)

Video Cameras (Cams) Connected to the Net

• GloVision: The Web Cam Station - lots of flash..
• EarthCam
• Cameras, Cameras, and More Cameras!
• SpyCams
• World Wide Map of Live WWW Cameras
• Windows 2000 World Views
• Live NASA Cams - but very graphic intensive - and updates continually
• More Cams
• Leonard's Worlds: Cam World
• WebCam Central - over 1000+ cam links!
• Peeping Tom Home Page VideoCams! (not sex-related!)
• Tommy's List of Live Cam Worldwide #1
• TolietCam! - cute hoax
• The Amazing Litterpan Cam!
• The Amazing WallCam!
• WorldCam
• Don's World - frame overload! - but nice
• The Amazing FishCam! - or press Ctrl-Alt-F in Netscape 3.0+ - courtesy of the friendly folks at Netscape
• The Reactive Room Media Space
• The Wearable Cam
• PiranhaCam
• The MysteryCam - first underground camera on the net!
• Multiple cameras (eight or ten nation-wide, and one in Hong Kong!)
• The Roaming Uniontown ICam

Interesting Items Connected to the Net

• TommyCam - views from the University of Southern California
• Robotic Tele-Garden
• Internet Accessible Machines - start here! - this site has lots of links! (especially non-camera)
• iNTERFACE - Internet-controlled robot that generates art
• UNRSL Helicorder Camera - view latest earthquake measurements on a helicorder drum
• Sample the (Radio) Airwaves around Birmingham, Alabama
• Seattle Area Traffic Conditions - live!
• Houston Real-Time Traffic Map - live!
• San Diego Traffic Map - live!
• More items connected to the Internet - including coffee machines, signs, voice synthesis, soda machines, hot tubs, refridgerators, more cameras...
• Long list of items on the net
• Model Railroad on the Net - control it and watch it over the net!
• Status of Paul's (Extra) Refrigerator
• Steve's Ant Farm
• SchoolNet Robotics Centre: Robots on the Web
• Live Scanners - listen in!
• Dallas/Fort Worth Air Traffic Control - live!
• Live Video from Mars Pathfinder
• AudioNet - "The Broadcast Network on the Internet"
• Live Shortwave Receiver - control it and listen to it!

Space

• Space Shuttle Web
• MIR Russian Space Station News
• Shuttle-MIR
• Space Shuttle Reference
• Space Shuttle Archives
• Current NASA Shuttle Status Report (in-flight from JSC)
• NASA Status Report Online (current) (preparations from KSC)
• NASA Status Report Online (preparations from KSC)
• Johnson Space Center (JSC)
• Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
• European Space Agency (ESA)
• NASA Missions and their status
• NASA Galileo Mission Page
• Mars Pathfinder Home Page - use one of the mirrors! Either select one of the many on NASA's page, or one of the mirrors at Silicon Graphics, Digital, Compuserve, or Sun.

Amateur Radio

Governmental Organizations

• US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (especially the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau)
• Amateur Radio Administrative Services (Canada)
• International Telegraph Union (ITU)
• International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
• Radio Communications Agency (RCA) - Great Britian's telecommunications government agency (like the US FCC)
• US Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA)
• (US) Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) - including:
• Air Force MARS (not accepting new members at this time)
• Air Force MARS Region 3 (Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.)
• Army MARS - and a nice map of other Army MARS sites
• Navy/Marines MARS - including some nice descriptions:
• MARS Mission
• A Message from Chief of Navy/Marine Corps MARS (NNN0ASA)
• What is MARS?
• US National Weather Service
• US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Communications System SHARES HF Radio Program

Disaster Relief Organizations

• Wisconsin Department of Emergency Management
• Dane County Emergency Management
• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) - member organizations include (among many others):
• The American Red Cross
• The Amateur Radio Relay League
• REACT International
• The Southern Baptist Convention Home Mission Board
• The Salvation Army
• American Red Cross - including the American Red Cross Virtual Museum
• International Commitee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) - related links:
• SATERN News - newsletter
• SATERN - Sierra del Mar (San Diego, California, area)
• Joining SATERN's Rings - article from October 1996 issue of WorldRadio (by Ann Shaver, WH2E)
• SATERN and related
• Salvation Army - Australia
• Salvataion Army
• Salvation Army - Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
• Salvation Army International Headquarters
• The North American Center for Emergency Communications (NACEC)
• Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams International, Inc. (REACT)

Private Organizations

• Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)
• International Morse Preservation Society (FISTS)
• Radio Amateurs Telecommunications Society (RATS)
• Federation Internationale des Radioamateurs Cheminots (FIRAC) - International Association of Railway Radio Amateurs
• Radio Amateur Sattelite Corp (AMSAT)
• Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX)
• The 10-10 Club
• NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Network
• The W5YI Group
• The Gordon West Radio School
• The Dayton Hamvention
• Radio Society of Great Britian (RSGB) - equivalent to the ARRL of Great Britian
• Medical Amateur Radio Council (MARCO) - est. 1966
• Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (QCWA)
• Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC)
• Veteran Wireless Operators of America
• Society of Wireless Pioneers
• Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corp. (TAPR) - creators of the first terminal node controllers (TNCs) and originators of amateur radio packet as we know it

Amateur Radio Equipment Manufacturers

• Alinco
• Icom
• Kenwood Communications
• Ten-Tec
• Yaesu
• MFJ Enterprises
• The Vibroplex Co., Inc. - since 1890: "The Oldest Name in Amateur Radio"
• Advanced Electronic Applications (AEA)
• Kantronics Co., Inc.
• Standard Amateur Radio Products, Inc.
• R. L. Drake
• BayGen - creators of the wind-up Freeplay Radio
• Inventors World - Winter 95 - article on the Freeplay Radio
• Review of Freeplay Radio
• Other Amateur Radio Vendors

Retail Companies

• The Communications Source
• Radioware
• Atlantic Ham Radio (Toronto, Canada)
• Radio Progressive Montreal Inc.
• Oak Hill Research (QRP Kits)
• Whiterook Products Company (QRP)
• Ramsey Electronics (Kits)
• Radio Devices
• Wilderness Radio (no credit cards accepted!?!?)
• Amateur Electronic Supply
• Tucker Electronics
• Ham Radio Outlet
• Muir Communications
• Seaway Communications
• Com-West Radio Systems Ltd.
• Universal Radio
• The Raymond Sarrio Company
• Sherwood Engineering, Inc.
• Norham Radio, Inc.
• R & L Electronics
• Electronic Equipment Bank
• Radio World
• Radio Devices - good links too!
• Burghardt Amateur Radio
• Other Amateur Radio Vendors

Used Equipment For Sale or Trade

• Used Amateur Radio Equipment at Atlantic Ham Radio (Toronto, Canada)
• Radio Recyclers
• Birmingham Amateur Radio Club Swap Shop
• The Virtual Hamfest
• The World-Wide Hamfest - brand new! (ink not yet dry) - keep checking this site, it has all the markings of a hot place to be
• QARC Ham Trade Centre - by the Quinte Amateur Radio Club
• Kingston Amateur Radio Club Swap Shop
• Ham Trader
• KWARC SwapShop
• Westcoast Amateur Radio Association
• Ham Swapshop - from N9LZE
• Radio Specifications - would be hot if only the companies web-sites would cooperate...
• Used Equipment from Amateur Electronic Supply
• Used Equipment from Universal Radio
• Used Amateur Radio List from R and L (Hamilton, Ohio)
• Used Equipment List from Norham (Canada)
• Burghardt Amateur Radio - huge list of used equipment
• Amateur Radio Classified Database
• Swap Ads - from the North Hills Radio Club (Sacramento, California)
• Ads from QST Magazine - put out by the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)
• Hank's Swap Shop! - from the Sonoma County Radio Association (SCRA)

Callsign Servers

• Callsign Information directly from the US Federal Communications Commission"
• Callsign Servers
• Buckmaster World Wide HamCall Server
• QRZ Callbook
• Callbook v1.3 (telnet)
• Callbook (telnet)
• Callbook
• Callsigns
• Callsign Search Engine (also available via Telnet)

Local Organizations (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

• American Red Cross - Badger Chapter
• Madison Area Clubs by KC2AK
• Madison Area Radio Nets by KC2AK
• Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)
• Badger Amateur Radio Society (BARS) - W9YT
• Madison Area Repeater Association (MARA) - WB9HSY
• Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
• Four Lakes Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) - W9YT
• Central Wisconsin Repeater Association (CWRA) - N9KAN
• Baraboo Yellow Thunder Amateur Radio Club - WB9FDZ
• Eau Claire Amateur Radio Club

Weather (Amateur Related)

Specifically, anything relating to severe weather spotters, emergency management, wave propogation, etc. - not general weather information.
• Disasters Online in Real-Time - from Ham Radio Online
• Comprehensive Training Information - from Skywarn Texas
• Skywarn Texas
• The Daily Planet - from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Severe Weather Safety Guide - also from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Weather Spotter's Guide from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Intellicast:
• USA Weather
• Madison, Wisconsin, Weather
• Madison, Wisconsin, Nexrad Doppler Radar
• Madison, Wisconsin, Radar
• US National Weather Service - local area offices:
• Chanhassen Office - Minneapolis, Minnesota area
• Green Bay Office - Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Sullivan Office - Milwaukee, Wisconsin area
• Central Region Headquarters - located in Kansas City, Missouri
• Other Local Offices (and more) of the National Weather Service
• US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Skywarn
• Weather web site from DHC Computer Consulting
• Great World-Wide Weather Links Page from the creators of the HF-FAX web site
• Live Midwestern US Radar (and other weather) from KGAN-TV (located in Iowa)
• Propogation Forecast
• Wisconsin Department of Emergency Management
• Dane County Emergency Management
• Weather Links from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies at the University of Wisconsin
• The Storm Chaser's Home Page
• The Storm Chaser's Home Page (Canada)

QRP ("Low Power") Operations

• Northern California QRP - world-wide organization (despite the name) with 2000+ members
• G-QRP Club
• Internet QRP Club (QRP-L)
• EI5EM's Amateur Radio QRP and CW Pages

Morse Code

• PA3PWK's Ultimate CW Site
• Code-Quick - learn code the easy way (with rave reviews from anyone who's used it)
• Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (QCWA)
• Veteran Wireless Operators of America
• Society of Wireless Pioneers
• W1AW - station operated by the ARRL
• Morsum Magnificat - the Morse Magazine
• Links to Other Sites of Morse Code Interest - from Morsum Magnificat
• The Vibroplex Co., Inc. - since 1890: "The Oldest Name in Amateur Radio"
• The Telegraph Office
• International Morse Preservation Society (FISTS)
• Morse Code in Music
• Morse Academy - free Morse code practice software
• Morse Exec  - "Operating System" to make a Univac 1100 series mainframe act as the world's most expensive Morse code generator!
• KO6YQ's Introduction to Morse Code
• Morse Code Trainers - lots of software links
• Morse Code Page by KB7QOP 

Documentation and Reference

• US FCC Forms (in PDF format) - of special interest:
• Form 610 (direct download) - Application for Amateur Operator/Primary License
• Form 610A (direct download) - Application for Permit of an Alien Amateur Radio Licensee to Operate in the United States
• Form 610B (direct download) - Application to Renew or Modify an Amateur Club, Races, or Military Recreation Station License
• Form 610V (direct download) (online interactive) - Amateur Station Vanity Call Sign Request
• Canadian Amateur Radio Certification Information
• US FCC Rules Part 95a - General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) Radio Rules
• US FCC Rules Part 95d - Citizen's Band (CB) Radio Rules
• New Calls - assigned by the FCC during the last business day
• US Government Forms from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• HF Band Plan and VHF/UHF Band Plan from Icom America
• Television Interference (TVI) Book from the US Federal Communications Commission
• FCC Part 97 - all United States amateurs must know and follow these rules:
• FCC Part 97 - text file
• FCC Part 97 - Web version (with frames) from ARRL - well-done!
• Allocation of Radio Spectrum
• Band Plan - done by the University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
• Open Amateur Radio Repeaters

(Non-Local) Clubs

• The Cactus Intertie System - repeaters linked throughout the Southwestern US - founded and run by The Cactus Radio Club, Inc. - also check out a nice history about both the club and the intertie system. Some of the Cactus Intertie System affiliates:
• Armadillo Intertie System
• Cholla Amateur Remote Base Association
• Kelp Radio Network
• Rabbit Radio Network
• Towers Mountain Remote Association
• The Armadillo Intertie System - "The National Radio System of Texas" - linked repeaters in Texas, USA
• North Hills Radio Club (Sacramento, California)
• South Jersey Radio Association - oldest continously operating radio club in the United States - est. 1916
• W5AC - Texas A & M - one of the oldest university radio clubs in the nation - est. 1912
• Central Michigan Amateur Radio Club (CMARC)
• Boston Amateur Radio Club (BARC) - including a well-known and well-stocked software archive specializing in ham software for all computer platforms
• Goddard Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (GARC) - WA3NAN - affiliated with Goddard Space Center; lots of space shuttle information
• University of Texas Amateur Radio Club

News Magazines

• North American Digital Systems Directory
• TAPR News Page
• Radio Amateur Information Network (RAIN)
• Amateur Radio NewsLine
• Ham Radio and More
• Newsline - official site!
• Megahertz - French amateur radio magazine (in French)
• Ham Radio Online - online newsletter

Newsgroups

• rec.radio.amateur.swap
• rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
• rec.radio.amateur.equipment
• rec.radio.amateur.antenna
• rec.radio.amateur.dx
• rec.radio.amateur.policy

Online Exams

• AA9PW Amateur Radio Exam Practice Page
• Online Ham Exam

Software

• TNOS - descendent of KA9Q amateur radio software
• RadioRaft - Multimode Radio Data Decoder Software - crippleware (but still usable)
• Morse Academy - free Morse code practice software

Miscellaneous Specialties

• Packet Radio Home Page - Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corp. (TAPR)
• 10-Meter Beacons
• The AM Radio Page
• Telnet Gateways to Ham Radio BBSes and Gateways
• Listen to various types of Amateur Radio transmissions! - from the Mobile Aeronautics Education Laboratory (MAEL)
• HF-FAX - World-Wide Radiofacsimile and Slow-Scan Television (SSTV)
• OH2BUA WebCluster
• Radio Era Archives - good source of old radio information
• Callsign.Net - Free email by callsign
• DX Hounds including a phenomenal list of Links

General Collections of Links

• World Wide Web Virtual Library - Amateur Radio
• Amateur Radio Links from NerdWorld
• Ajack's WB9OTX Radio Page
• HamLinks: Amatuer Radio and Related Links - sorted alphabetically only but huge!
• K3WWP's Ham Radio Activities
• N3TLJ's Ham Radio Web Site - 3,451+ links!
• World of Internet Amateur Radio
• Radio Shopping List (shortwave) from Radio Netherlands
• Chris Smolinski's Radio Page
• KL7J - Radio Resources
• VE2DM's Internet Amateur Radio Connections
• HR Showcase - the Amateur Radio Web Site
• N2VKG: Amateur Radio Events
• Pirate Radio
• Clandestine Radio Broadcasting Web Page
• KB8TNQ: The Ultimate Amateur Radio Page
• Amateur Radio Links
• Amateur Radio Links from the Radio Amateurs of Canada
• VE7TCP
• Lots of Amateur Radio Links from Com-West Radio Systems Ltd.
• Amateur and Ham Radio at Yahoo!
• Amateur Radio Web Pages
• Amateur Radio Links
• John's Galaxy
• Amateur Radio World
• WM7D dot Net

Fidonet

Software

• FastEcho, FrontDoor, and FrontDoor FX
• MacWoof, NewsHound, and MacKennel
• Fidonet Files - minimal but nice
• BGFax - and not just for Fidonet!
• Silver Xpress
• BlueWave
• FidoGate
• Allfix
• Fidonet 2 Internet Mailer
• BeeMail Home Page - in English and Spanish
• BeeMail
• BinkleyTerm XE - with many mirrors - try the US mirror
• Opus - legendary Fidonet BBS whose history is interwoven with that of Echomail and FOSSILs

Technical Information

• Fidonet Technical Standards
• Fidonet Registration Services
• Fidonet Technical Standards
• The Fidonet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC)
• Fidonet Technical Standards, Proposals, Reference, and Administrative Documentation - with tables or without
• Networking Technologies from the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) - includes Fidonet and UUCP information
• Home Page of fidonet.org

History

General

• Fidonet Pointers - from Sysnews.Com - a resource for WebMasters, SysOps, and Online Users
• Fidonet Links
• Bob's Good Fidonet Stuff List at Bob's Good Stuff Lists
• Fidonet Info and Links
• The World-Wide Web Fidonet Resource
• Fidonews Home Page

Introductions

• Fidonet Introduction

Miscellaneous

Free Fax

Many free faxes use the new tcp.int domain and gateway; this domain does not yet cover all of the United States or of the world. However, it is a good idea - help it to grow!
• The Phone Company - the new tpc.int domain
• About tpc.int
• Free Fax to Anywhere in Israel
• The Internet Free Fax Server
• Send a Fax for Free!
• (Low Cost) Email to Fax Gateway
• Netzmarkt Free Fax - has free fax forms in English, French, and German - sponsored by Netzmarkt

Free Email Addresses

• Juno - requires special program (not Internet-based email) but does not require an Internet account
• Callsign.Net - Free email by amateur radio callsign
• Web Email
• StarMail
• IName - free email address for life!
• NetAddress - free email address for life!
• Freindly Email
• HotMail
• MailExcite - from the people who brought you Excite

Email Services

• Liszt - search mailing list directory
• Infobeat (formerly called Mercury Mail) - including stock quotes, news summaries, sports summaries, and more!

General

• 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
• Submit-It! - submit your URL and it'll go to dozens of Web search engines just like that!
• UUCP Map Lookup - courtesy of Amdahl Corporation
• Free Web-Counter Services - just add HTML coding! No special requirements from your ISP! (WebCounter stopped taking free accounts due to overwhelming response)
• (Almost) Free Web-Counter Services from Jinko - just add HTML coding! No special requirements from your ISP!
• Free Guestbook Services