Cool Links

Last modified: Fri Dec 29 00:12:45 EST 1995

Hey NetHeads!

Many people have visited my Cool Links page since I began it in late 1993 (two years ago!). Well, it's now got somewhere over 470 links and it doesn't serve the original purpose for which I created it - helping me get to the pages I like because the original Mosaic's idea of bookmarks was lame.

As such, this page is now dead. It's still here for the people who find it off the net, but if you're looking for cool stuff instead of links pointing to stuff which no longer exists, try one of the links below, which hopefully isn't dead:

Quick ref: Books, Magazines, Art, Computers / Graphics Research, U.S. Government, Numerical Software, Electronic shopping, Check it out, Miscellaney

For a good introduction to why WWW and Mosaic are cool, check out this article by the New York Times's John Markoff. For extremely detailed information on WWW, look at the WWW FAQ. For answers to most any frequently asked question, check out the Usenet FAQs.

On-line books:
On-line magazines: You can even order standards documents from The Document Center.

The E-Zine List provides a comprehensive list of Zines and other magazines of less general interest.

You may also want to check out Internet Talk Radio (or, click here for an alternate archive).

How about some on-line newspapers?

On-line "fine" art: Click here for pointers other art museums and resources.
Here are some particular sites of computers and graphics research interest: For an amusing diversion, read David Woolley's History of PLATO, one of the first multi-user on-line communities.
U.S. Government documents:
Sources of numerical software:
Electronic shopping crud:
Here are some other interesting things you may want to check out:
Miscellaney

To start navigating the Web, an excellent resource is The Virtual Tourist.

For points to many other WWW things, try Yahoo - A Guide to WWW. Here's a site that attempts to track the latest new servers announced to the net. Of course, you can always check out the more-or-less official What's New listing.

Here's another site with a comprehensive site list, and another site with an index to multimedia information sources.

If you are looking for software via anonymous ftp, you know the name of what you want, but not where to find it, try this archie form.

If you know vaguely what you're looking for, but you're not exactly sure, try one of the W3 search engines.

Of course, you could always go to the Planet Earth Home Page, and work your way down from there.

Dan Wallach, CS Department, Princeton University