Ideas, Philosophy, History, ...
- Hobbes' Internet Timeline – the definitive Internet history
- Internet Archive: Wayback Machine – 30 billion pages!
- The Internet Index by Win Treese is an eye-opening collection of facts and statistics about the Internet.
- NetAction, including Bring Us Broadband! & Consumer Choice Campaign, is about taking action.
- "The Second Coming — a Manifesto" by David Gelernter puts computing and the Internet in perspective.
- Black lists:
- freedb.org – a free approach to audio CD info on the Internet
- ICANN – accredited registrars
- Internet Traffic Report – North America
- Search Engine Watch from Mecklermedia
- Speed tests:
- Speakeasy: servers in 8 U.S. cities
- TestMySpeed.com – links to 200 nationwide speed tests
- Web-based network tools:
- Ping & NSLookup (Microtech Limited)
- Ping, Lookup, Trace, WhoIs, DNS, ... (NWtools@Consumer.net)
- Web Based Network Tools jumpstation
- Webring & its RingWorld directory
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Security, Phishing & Anti-Virus
- CERT® Coordination Center – Advisories – from Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
- Encryption Policy Resource Page
- Phishing:
- Anti-Phishing Working Group – Committed to wiping out Internet scams and fraud
- FTC Consumer Alert – How Not to Get Hooked by a ‘Phishing’ Scam
- Security Response at Symantec – latest virus threats & security advisories
- Virus Information Center at Network Associates (Dr. Solomon'sVirex)
- AFU & Urban Legends Archive
- CIAC (U.S. DoE) Internet Hoaxes
- Don't Spread that Hoax
- Hoax Warnings at F-Secure Corporation
- Hypes & Hoaxes at IBM
- Urban Legends Reference by the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's
- Virus Hoaxes list at the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
- The List of Internet Service Providers
- America Online & CompuServe
- IntuitiveISP – $15 domain registration & $9/month website hosting
- NET1Plus & SimpleServers – my A+ ISP & hosting service since 1995
- Ultimate ISP Guide from c|net