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AT&T Telephone Tour. An entertaining tour through your telephone system from your friends at AT&T. http://www.att.com/talkingpower/

The Bible of Usenet . A sophisticated overview of the nuances and intracies of this "mother of all BBS's." http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-b/home.html

ClarisWeb. Just as complete as Apple's web server, Claris serves up information for it's Mac and Windows customers. Includes update software binaries. http://www.claris.com/

Computer Emergency Response Team. Formed in response to the famous Internet Worm incident in 1988 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in November 1988, CERT is the master clearinghouse for problems and solutions in Internet security. It is administered by Carnegie Mellon University. This FTP site has numerous tutorials on Internet security as well as detailed information about specific problems. Get on their mailing list to receive CERT Advisories that detail newly discovered vulnerabilities in Internet protocols and operating systems. ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/

Computer Mediated Communication. Edited by John December, this is a high-brow e-Zine that focuses on some of the more profound aspects of the Internet and electronic communication. Recent issues have covered Internet privacy issues, book excerpts and a focus on educational and more serious Internet topics. http://sunsite.unc.edu/cmc/mag/current/toc.html

Four11: Online White Pages Directory. A place for you to register your name in a "white pages" of sorts. http://www.Four11.com/

Guides to Writing HTML Documents. Brought to you by the same folks who develop NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois. http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/html/guides.html

Hewlett-Packard. HP, based in Palo Alto, makes a lot of other things besides printers. http://www.hp.com/

IBM. Still the biggest computer company in the world, you can learn about their products and services here. http://www.ibm.com/

Informix Software. Highly graphical, this Web site takes you on a tour of this database software maker based in Menlo Park. http://www.informix.com/

Internet Demographics. The famous Georgia Tech survey of who is actually using the World Wide Web. http://www.gatech.edu/pitkow/survey/

Internet Index. A shameles and very well executed imitation of Harper's Index compiling interesting net stats http://www.openmarket.com/info/internet-index/current.html

The ISDN Page. An extremely comprehensive listing of ISDN-related products and services. http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/

Mac Street Price Index. Shopping for a new Mac and need to know what everone else is paying for their computer. Check here for the latest consumer, gray market and VAR pricing. Links to other Macintosh buying resources. http://www.interport.net/~joholmes/street_price.html

Macintosh Resources. By Robert Lentz, this is a compresensive set of pointers to information of interest to Macintosh owners. http://www.astro.nwu.edu/lentz/mac/home-mac.html

Microsoft. Get access to tech support, developer and services from the Death Star of software companies. http://www.microsoft.com/

Novell. The maker of Netware and Word Perfect products has extensive on-line information about technical and user issues. http://www.novell.com/

Ohio State FAQ Archive. A searchable index of Frequently Asked Questions prepared by members of USENET. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq

SAIC Security Web Site. Science Applications International Corporation is a California-based defense contractor who performs basic research in computer security. Their public web site is an excellent launching pad and file repository on security-related issues. Stored in this archive are FAQs and papers on basic issues, firewall, Web security, UNIX security as well as some rather breezy "Tales of Computer Attacks and Countermeasures." http://mls.saic.com/mls.security.html

Silicon Graphics. That wacky company that helped make Terminator and Jurasic Park have an equally artful web site. http://www.sgi.com/

Silicon Studio. Here's Silicon Graphics subsidary that's completely dedicated to development of entertainment technology. http://www.studio.sgi.com/

Special Internet Connections. Famous for knowledge of the intracies of the Internet, Scott Yanoff shares it with the rest of us. Look here to expand your technical knowledge. http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.html

Sun Microsystems. Learn more about the UNIX workstation company that supplies the most computers connected to the Internet here. http://www.sun.com/

TidBITS. A very detailed, timely and informative weekly newsletter about the Macintosh. http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/TidBITS/TidBITS.html

U.K. FAQ Archive. A hierarchical index to the many Frequently Asked Question documents that have been generated by USENET participants. http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/

Western Digital. This Irvine-based company has information about its mass storage and multimedia products on-line. http://www.wdc.com/

White Pine Software. Software developer of eXodus, an X Window System display emulators for Macintosh, DOS and Windows. http://www.wpine.com/

Winsock Application List. A very comprehensive listing of all the programs you can use to access the Internet using Windows. Binaries are available too. http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~Neuroses/cwsapps.html

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