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The Internet and the World Wide Web


Creators

Tim Berners-Lee
Stewart Brand
Vannevar Bush
Vinton G. Cerf
Father of the Mouse: Doug Englebart
Martin Haeberli
Nicholas Negroponte
Ted Nelson
Mark Pesce
Howard Rheingold
Alan Turing


Maintainers

WORLD WIDE WEB
"The CERN World-Wide Web Days for the European Media have been created to give you a taste of the Information Superhighways, Hypertext, Cyberspace, World-Wide Web and Internet."
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
"W3C is hosted by the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, and in Europe by INRIA with support from DARPA and the European Commission."
Welcome to the InterNIC
"The InterNIC is a cooperative activity between the National Science Foundation, Network Solutions, Inc. and AT&T. Explore employment opportunities at the InterNIC, or read news and announcements."
CERN WWW Service
"The WWW Support Team of the ECP Division runs the main WWW server at CERN, www.cern.ch, and gives general support to WWW information providers."
World-Wide Web and CERN
"These pages describe CERN's past and present involvement in the World-Wide Web."
Internet Society
"The Internet Society is a non-governmental International organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications."
Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF)
"The White House formed the Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) to articulate and implement the Administration's vision for the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The task force consists of high-level representatives of the Federal agencies that play a major role in the development and application of information and telecommunications technologies."
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
INRIA
- The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
National Center for Supercomputing Applications - General Information
Media-Lab Welcome


Protocols and Standards

Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
- descriptions of major internet standards and protocols
A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN
The PC-Mac TCP/IP & NFS FAQ list- by Rawn Shah
Beyond HTML: HTTP Servers
A Guide to URLs
David W. Baker says, "This document is intended to describe Uniform Resource Locators, widely used on the World Wide Web and other media for referencing documents. I am writing this document to be an understandable, comprehensive, and accurate resource on URLs."
HyperWave and Hyper-G
"HyperWave Server is advanced web server (WWW) technology, based on an object-oriented database which was developed especially for hypermedia document management. HyperWave guarantees automatic hyperlink consistency and supports hyperlinks to and from multimedia documents, full text retrieval and a sophisticated access control system with user management and user groups."


Meta-references for Webmasters and System Administrators

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Communications and Telecommunications
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Computing
Yahoo! Computing
The WDVL: The Web Developer's Virtual Library
"A webmaster's Internet encyclopedia of software technology"
Verity Virtual Library
"You will be searching about 50 Web-related mailing lists and thousands of Web pages that describe software, hardware, techniques, research - anything that might be of interest to the Web professionals. We continously update our database using a special version of the Topic Web Indexer, a sophisticated Web robot."
webreference.com
"From Net beginners to webmasters, webreference.com is the fastest way to learn about the Web and the art of Web site creation."
absolute resource! tidbit
Dave's Hotlist
The Bandwidth Conservation Society
"The goal is that this site becomes a resource for web developers with an interest in optimizing performance, but still maintaining an appropriate graphic standard. The conviction (or perhaps hallucination) that there is a balance between a pleasing page and an economical, low-bandwidth delivery of that page."
The URL-minder: Your Own Personal Web Robot!!
W3C Webmaster Frequently Asked Questions
The Web Tools Review


Security, Fair Use and Copyright Policy

The World Wide Web Security FAQ
"This is the World Wide Web Security Frequently Asked Question list (FAQ). It attempts to answer some of the most frequently asked questions relating to the security implications of running a Web server. There is also a short section on Web security from the browser's perspective."
W3C Security Resources
Secure HTTP: Safe Transactions for the World-Wide Web
Sample University and Institution Policies and Agreements
"Writers to get their fair share"
May 1996 Information World Review article on royalties for writers who publish over electronic media
The Copyright Website
" This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information of interest to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians, appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens. Launched on May Day 95, this site seeks to encourage discourse and invite solutions to the myriad of copyright tangles that currently permeate the Web; The Copyright Website strives to lubricate the machinations of information delivery."
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
Brad Templeton says, "Note that this is an essay about copyright myths. It assumes you know at least what copyright is --"
Digital Information and Copyright


Statistics

Measuring the Growth of the Web: June 1993 to June 1995
CyberAtlas Index
- "the Internet research guide, published by I/PRO"
Net Analyst
- "Net Analyst strives to become the Number One Resource for Internet Marketers/Consultants, Web designers, and Businesses on the Internet!"
WebCompare!
- server and browser features comparisons; server surveys


Tools and Plugins

BrowserWatch-Plug-in Plaza!
Essential Apps for Web Browsers
Science.org Presents: Building a Netscape Plug-in
Top Ten Winsock Applications
Cool Tool of the Day
VRweb
"VRweb is a browser for 3D worlds and objects modeled in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). VRweb is the only VRML browser which is freely available in complete source code (under the GNU General Public License), does not require commercial packages such as Inventor or Motif, and which is capable of running on virtually all platforms."


Japanese Browsers, Software and Search Engines

Links for Japanese Browsing on the Web
Japanizing WWW Browsers - by Katsuhiko Momoi
WWW Browsers that can display Japanese
Shodouka Launchpad
"Shodouka is a mediator: it does the jobs of both a browser and a server. In between, it renders the kana and kanji into images in real-time."
Setting Up Twinbridge/J demo and Netscape
Win/V
A Note on Computing in Japanese
Search Engines in Japan

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