Reference

Dictionaries

English

Webster's at Stanford, with links to many languages

Webster's at UCSD

Webster's Unabridged (1913)

Mirriam Webster Online Dictionary

Webster's at CMU

OneLook Dictionaries

Dictionaries at X-reference, free, listed by topic.

The Internet Dictionary Project

Royalty-free translating dictionaries, currently English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Portuguese

Online Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary

Specialty

Biographical Dictionary

Biography.com, from A;&E Television Networks

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894)

Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (1911)

gopher://wiretap.area.com/00/Library/Classic/devils.txt http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8109/

Legal

Music Dictionary

Skeptic's Dictionary

Guide for the New Millennium, skeptical definitions, essays and references from acupuncture to zombis, by Robert T. Carroll, Ph.D.

Roget's Thesaurus

Dictionary.com

A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

The Ariga Glossary of Yiddish Expressions

Translations by Babelfish

Systran Internet Translation Technologies

WorldLingo Free Translations

Free Translations

Google Translation FAQ for snippets and Web results

Google Language Tools with translation services in Beta

The Dialectizer Parodies

Lost in Translation, remember the game of "telephone?"

EncycloPort

On-line Encyclopedias and Multilingual Translating Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Encyberpedia

Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia Cybernetica

Encyclopedia Internet

Encyclopedia of the Orient

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Australian Mirror

Encyclopedia Mythica

Encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legends, containing over 5700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

Knowledge Adventure!

Technical Encyclopedia from TechWeb

Encyclopedia Collections

EncycloPort

On-line Encyclopedias and Multilingual Translating Dictionaries

Encyclopedias at the Virtual Reference Desk

Galaxy's Encyclopedia suggestions

General Reference

Accurate Eye

DeskRef Quick Reference Links

Homework Helper

Martindale's Reference Desk

Online Reference Works

Research-it

Language, Library, Geography, Finance, Mailing

Thor - Virtual Reference Desk

At Purdue

Refdesk.com

Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Internet

Computing

Acronyms, abreviatons, etc.

CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability

Dictionary of Computing - foldoc

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
http://wagner.princeton.edu/foldoc/about.html

The Jargon Dictionary

Jargon File Resources

http://www.tf.hut.fi/cgi-bin/jargon with a search utility

Knowledge Base (searchable FAQ)

Netizens Netbook

New Hacker's Dictionary (1.4 MEG file)

Webopaedia

Tech Encyclopedia at CMPnet.

Email 4U

4Useries, email, fun, getit, pix

HTML

HTML Composition

Beginners

Basics

Complete Idiot's Guide to HTML

Create Your Own Page

HTML Help (Quick Start)

NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Part 1

HTML Demo Pages

Sucky to Savvy: Background Music

Books & Reference

Cascading Style Sheets (Webmonkey)

HTML Help

Authoring references, FAQs, Design elements, Tutorials, Valildators,

HTML Reference

Interactive Tutorial

Using HTML, 2nd Ed.

Color Chart

ColorMaker

Colors: RGB to HEX

CGI Scripts

Image Maps and HTTP

Multmedia (CC Forums)

TableMaker

Web Site Garage

Links

Bill's HTML/Java Links

Dorothy's HTML page

HTML Tutorials

Sources

Web Mastery Resource Lists

Web Style, HTML Language, Learning HTML, HTML Editors, HTML Converters, WWW, Images

WURD Web Page Designer

Yahoo HTML Guides

MIDI options for web authors

WDVL (Web Devel. Virt. Lib.)

Webmaster's Reference Library

Webmonkey Reference Cheat Sheet

Web Wizard's Reference Desk

Locate

Finger, Whois

Finger

Finger - CMU

Finger - IU

Tools

Traceroute

TraceRoute - Anime

Traceroute - MIT

Whois Arin

American Registry for Internet Numbers

Whois Internic

http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/itts/whois

Whois Ripe.net

Whois - UIUC (IP to Host)

Newbies

A-M

Beginners' Guide

Direct Connection: Starting Points

Beginner's Central

EFF's Extended Guide to the Internet

Excite > Beginner's Guides

HelpWeb

Index of Newbie pages

InterLinks

an Internet navigator, resource locator, and tutorial.

Internet 101

Learn the Net

Life on the Internet Guide

http://cii2.cochran.com/start/guide/default.html

Lisa's Newbie Links

Melsa Tutorial

N-Z

Net 101

NetLinks Newbie Help

NewbieNET Cyber Course

Newbies Anonymous

http://www.webbuild.com/~mbowen/index1.htm

Newbie-U

Pipex Dial's Guides to the Internet

Polaris Internet Guide

Resources (links)

Swiftsure Guide

Yahoo Internet Information

Yahoo WWW Beginner's Guides

NetNews for Newbies (1995)

Resources (Bookwatch)

Que's Digital Bookshelf

Resources (UIU)

RFC's

RFCs (ISI)

RFCs at ESNet

Searches

Engines

800Go.com with 12 search engines

Absolute All-in-one Search Page

All-in-One Search Page

AltaVista

AOL NetFind

Beaucoup! Engines

General, Meta, Multi, Reviewed, Media, Geographic, Software, Reference/Language/Literature, Education/Schools, Music/Sound, Arts/Graphics, Science/Nature/Technology, Email/Domains/Phone Numbers for People/Organizations, Internet/WWW, Computer/Programming, Politics/Government, Health/Medicine/Foods and Diet, Hobbies/Games/Recreation/Pets/Entertainment, Potpourri

DogPile multiple engines

Excite

FIND everything

web, quotes, phone, reverse, webster, FTP, carriers

InfoSeek Guide

Topic directory, includes search engine and e-mail addresses

Magellen

MetaCrawler

Myna's Minions

Nexor's Indicies

Christian Webmaster

FTP Search

Internet Oracle

Internet, Meta, People, Companies, Reverse, Games, Downloads, Travel, Film, NYC, Shopping, News & Weather, Reference & Research, Arts & Entertainment, Colleges & Universities, Financial, Food & Drink, Gay, Jobs, Legal & Government, Medical

Liszt Searchable Directories

Navigation Tools at Rice

subject, keyword, location, type, forums, people

Pathfinder News Now Search

People

555-1212.com

DataBase USA

InfoSpace

PC411 Search Page

Search by business, person, or telephone number

TileNet

lists, news, vendors, ftp sites

Usenet

DejaNews

Pipex News Finder

InReference

Usenet archives, newsgroups, mail lists (was Stanford Sift)

Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies

Message-ID search

sunsite browsing

sunsite searching

Yahoo

Usenet

Bill Hazelrig's newgroup FAQs

starting an alt.* newsgroup and Rmgroup Responses

Comspiracy Arc-Hive

Dave DeLaney's Usenet page

FAQs

USENET FAQs (faqs.org)

USENET FAQs (OSU)

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html

USENET FAQs (Oxford)

Headers Info (Falk)

Net Abuse

KillFile Dungeon (Tim Skirvin)

news.admin.net-abuse.* Homepage

News Hacking & GNKSA

News Links (Denis McKeon)

n.n.q Links (Jon Bell)

Usenet Info Center Launch Pad

Usenet References

Netscan Newsgroup statistics

Web - Misc

Daedalus's Guide to the Web

Introductions, Directories, Libraries, WWW Virtual Library, Copyright issues, HTML, Universities, Web Works

Infomine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Librarians' Index to the Internet

New York Times Web Navigator

Virtual Library Subject Catalog

http://www.w3.org/vl/

World Wide Web Consortium

World Wide Web FAQ (1996)

World Wide Web Security FAQ

http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/wwwsf7.html (client side)

Institute for Learning Technologies

Academic and Computer Resrouces at Columbia University

Law and Law Enforcement

Criminal Law Links

U.S. Department of Justice

LawGuru.com

Law.com, formerly Law Journal Extra

Legal Information Institute at Cornell

The Legal List for Internet research ($30)

the 500K text file from 1994

Legal Resources on the Internet, an extraordinary compendium by Jeff Flax

Levine's Legal List

War on Drugs

WWW Virtual Law Library

Maps

Gazetteer (Census Bureau)

Global Explorer, with satellite photos!

How far is it?

Map Sites

MapQuest

Maps

Name Server (Xerox)

Pgh Metro Map

Religion

Anti

Free Thought Now

Net Athiests

People for the American Way

Why Christians Suck from Paranoia.com

Bibles

ARTFL Project

Bible Gateway

Bibles etc.

KJV-HTML

On-Line Bible

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Christian Lliterature

Christian Resources on the Web

Church Web Message Board

Churches

East Liberty Presbyterian Church

First Church of Cyberspace

Grace Cathedral

PCUSA

Pittsburgh OnTV's Houses of Worship

St. John the Divine

Creeds of Christendom

Cyber Hymnal

Dirty Hippy's Liberal Christian Home Journal

Facets of Religion (Meta-Index)

Lectionary

MCU Virtual Library

fairly conservative

Secular Web (Internet Infidels)

Virtual Christianity

Soft and Hardware Help

Netscape FAQ (unofficial)

PC Lube and Tune

SLiRP/TIA and Trumpet Winsock Setup Menu

Winsock Tuning FAQ

http://www.azlink.com/~lyle/reference/winsock/index.html

TIME (USN Observatory)

Translation

English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Weather

Old Farmers Almanac

Pittsburgh Weather (NOAA NetCast)

Pittsburgh Web Weather (Princeton)

Wired Cybrarian, formerly Wired Sources, the Wired editors' guide to research on the Net.