David Neto's Interesting places on the Web

I've been exploring the World Wide Web only since early 1995. Here are some interesting places to go exploring.

Beware that I haven't tried many of these places in a long time, so they may be out of date. Alas.

Contents:

• Pages with Web resource links
• Computer science resources
• University of Toronto
• Toronto
• Other people's Web site lists
• General interest

• My news sites
  • Slashdot.org -- "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." -- constantly updated
  • Linux Weekly News -- "Concise news for all [Linux] interests"
• Pages with Web resource links
  • HP's WWW tools page -- excellent, including links to dictionaries.
  • Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (UK) -- excellent! E.g. see the entry for DRAM
• Computer science resources
  • ACM and their ACM journal search service
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (Waterloo mirror)
  • Hypertext Bibliography Project
  • The WWW Virtual Library: Computing
  • The WWW Virtual Library: Computing, University Computer Science Departments
  • List of FTP sites for computer science technical reports
  • ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
  • WebWatcher -- a WWW hint giver based on machine learning.
  • Stanford Parallel Applications for Shared Memory (SPLASH)
  • SigPOW -- UofT's Special Interest Group for Parallism on Workstations
  • Java -- an embedded programming language for WWW applets, and more
  • POTM -- Programmer of the Month contests.
  • LEDA -- Library of Efficient Data Structures and Algorithms.
• University of Toronto
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Mathematical sciences at the University of Toronto
  • UofT Library
  • UofT Bookstore
    • UofT Bookstore listing of texts for courses
  • University of Toronto
• Toronto
  • General information about Toronto -- Excellent! Includes many links, including weather, sports, activities, etc.
  • RealEstate.CA (Amazing, finally!)
  • Autoguide.net -- used cars in the Toronto area
  • Surfing Toronto
  • Web sites gleaned from ads in Toronto Computes
  • eye -- Toronto's Arts Newspaper
  • Toronto movie show times (from eye) (link updated April 21, 1997)
  • Short stories about Toronto
  • Toronto restaurant listings
  • Toronto Area Delivery & Take-Out Restaurants (watch for the cute animated GIF)
• Other people's Web site lists
  • Femmes. Bonnie Burton's links to Grrl stuff.
  • Geek site of the Day
  • K.K. Campbell's top Web sites
  • Toronto Star's family-oriented Web sites
  • Toronto Compute's Real Estate jumping points
  • NCSA Mosaic home page
  • Netscape home page (link fixed September 4, 1997)
• General interest
  • Abacab -- The Internet Server Made of Garbage.
  • Canada411 -- Bell Canada's searchable phone book listings
  • Four11.com -- search for people's email addresses (subject to acceptable use)
  • Canada Post postal code lookup
  • CReAte Your Own Newspaper. Create a personalized Web newspaper.
  • Art
    • Web Museum -- an easy-access art repository
    • The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
  • Space
    • Federation of American Scientists' Life on Mars page
      
    • Space Telescope Science Intstitute -- the official Hubble space telescope web site.
    • Kennedy Space Center -- including news on the most recent and/or upcoming space shuttle flights. I like this site a lot.
  • Flags of the World
  • IBM's U.S. Patent search site
  • mersenne.org -- mathematical fun: prime number searches, cracking cryptosystems, packing problems, etc.
  • Toronto OS/2 User's Group - TO/2
  • Year 2000 -- devoted to computer date logic problems that will come up with the turn of the millenium
  • Genealogy
    • Genealogy toolbox version 2
    • Everton's Genealogical Helper
    • Genealogy in Ontario
      • Ontario Genealogical Society
      • Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid (version 4)