Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours - Appendix A - Hot Sites Many of the sites in this appendix appear elsewhere in the book. This simply represents a quick reference of sites that you might find most useful or entertaining. Computer and Internet Related Sites These sites take you to some of the major producers of computers, computer systems, and related hardware and software. Computer Systems IBM http://www.ibm.com Apple Computer http://www.apple.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) http://www.dec.com Compaq http://www.compaq.com Gateway 2000 http://www.gateway2000.com Dell http://www.dell.com Toshiba http://www.toshiba.com Printers Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com Brother http://www.brother.com Canon http://www.canon.com Modems US Robotics http://www.usr.com Hayes http://www.hayes.com Practical Peripherals http://www.practinet.com Microcom http://www.microcom.com Zoom http://www.zoom.com Global Village http://www.globalvillage.com Major Software Corporations Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com Novell http://www.novell.com Claris http://www.claris.com Adobe Systems Incorporated http://www.adobe.com Quarterdeck http://www.quarterdeck.com Internet Sites This section contains Internet-related World Wide Web sites. Browsers and Plug-Ins Netscape Communications http://www.netscape.com Netscape Navigator plug-ins http://www.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/navcomponents_download.html Microsoft Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ Using Navigator plug-ins in Microsoft Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/ie/challenge/comparison/plug.htm NCSA Mosaic http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/ Search Engines Excite http://www.excite.com Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com/ AltaVista http://www.altavista.digital.com/ Magellan http://www.mckinley.com/ Lycos http://www.lycos.com/ Open Text http://www.opentext.com/ WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/ MetaCrawler--Searches by geographic region http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu shareware.com--Searches for shareware http://www.shareware.com/ Catalist--Searches for listservs http://segate.sunet.se/lists/listref.html People Finders Four11 http://www.four11.com/ InfoSpace http://www.infospace.com WhoWhere? http://www.whowhere.com America Directory Assistance http://www.lookupusa.com/lookupusa/adp/peopsrch.htm Government Sites The following are a few of the more popular governmental sites on the Web: The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov The U.S. Senate http://www.senate.gov The U.S. House of Representatives http://www.house.gov Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/ FedWorld http://www.fedworld.gov Broadcast Media This list of sites covers everything from network TV to cable to the movies. Network TV ABC http://www.abc.com CBS http://www.cbs.com NBC http://www.nbc.com Fox http://www.foxworld.com Cable TV Cinemax http://www.cinemax.com HBO http://www.hbo.com The Disney Channel http://www.disney.com/DisneyChannel/ ESPN http://www.espn.com Movie Studios MCA/Universal http://www.mca.com Metro Goldwyn Mayer http://www.mgmua.com Paramount Pictures http://www.paramount.com Sony Pictures http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/SonyMovies/index.html 20th Century Fox http://www.tcfhe.com Walt Disney Studios http://www.disney.com/DisneyPictures/ Warner Brothers http://www.movies.warnerbros.com/