The Online World handbook: Update History

The Online World resources handbook

Update History

For resent history, check the What's new page.

3.4.30

Airport Search Engine. Financial-only content search engine. Directory and search engine for non-profit organizations.

3.4.29

The Used-Music Web and Russia tourism (Chapter 4). Changing your email address (Chapter 7). Africa News Online (Chapter 9). China market information and Russian Regional Database (Chapter 11). Global Internet Statistics by language (Appendix 1).

3.4.28

Czech Economy (Chapter 11). Chinese language search engines (Chapter 10). The UK Mapping Service and the Sushi mailing list (Chapter 4). Hints for Windows 98 users (Chapter 8). Russian Industry Enterprises databases (Chapter 11). Database of complementary and alternative medicine (Chapter 6).

3.4.27

More English grammar (Chapter 5). The LISTSERV mailing list catalog (Chapter 10). Meta-archive of non-Roman fonts (Chapter 3).

3.4.26

The Peking University Library (Chapter 10), Albania (Chapter 4), more medicinal herbs in Chapter 6.

3.4.25

The Global Gourmet (Chapter 4). The Windows NT mailing list (Chapter 8).

3.4.24

NewsCrawler, a newspaper archive search engine (Chapter 9).

3.4.23

Deafdigest (Chapter 6). Search engine for Online Advertisers, Marketers, and E-Commerce (Chapter 10).

3.4.22

Getting a personalized domain name (Chapter 7). Webster and the Dictionaries and Encyclopedias page (Chapter 10).

3.4.21

Reading mail when travelling (Chapter 7)

3.4.20

Maintenance version.

3.4.19

KUNG Fu and Tai CHi.

3.4.18

At http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html, there's an updated list of web-by-email servers, FTP mail servers, gophermail servers, Archie servers, and SimTel FTP mirrors.

3.4.15-17

Maintenance version.

3.4.14

Live cameras around the world. Iraq. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

3.4.13

Maintenance version.

3.4.12

Asian art. Free encyclopedia searches. The Economist.

3.4.11

More on filtering and keeping retrieved information. English as a second language.

3.4.9-10

Eudora filtering hints.

3.4.8

Maintenance version.

3.4.7

Porsche Net.

3.4.6

Email for free.

3.4.5

European rail passes. MP3.

3.4.4

Maintenance version.

3.4.3

The Dialog Corporation.

3.4.2

Links for photo enthusiasts.

3.4.1

Maintenance version.

3.4

Chinese philosophy and classics.

3.3.27

Virtual museums. Top 10 news from Asia. OECD.

3.3.26

Chinese medicine. Full text search in an archive of Russian newspapers and periodicals.

3.3.25

Cyrillic character coding schemes.

3.3.21-24

Maintenance versions.

3.3.20

Herpes. More news searching services. More on searching Web databases by email.

3.3.19

Searching today's news.

3.3.18

Maintenance version.

3.3.17

Collection of WWW by email help files. Organizations prepared to host your mailing list. Free NNTP servers.

3.3.16

Search engine for travel information. Service that checks web pages for html compatibility problems.

3.3.15

Bible resource. Real-time Asian-focused commercial information. Marketing- related discussions.

3.3.14

Chinese language. Search India's web. World competitiveness data.

3.3.13

Free MEDLINE information. Packet radio resource. IRC information resource.

3.3.4-3.3.12

Maintenance versions.

3.3.3

The Government of Pakistan. Europe by Eurail. Spanish language resource. Search Usenet FAQ files.

3.3.2

Hardware-oriented newsgroups by category.

3.3.1

Source for searching books, magazines, journals, and databases not generally available via the Web. Eudora for email.

3.3

More on spam (unsolicited commercial mail).

3.2.26

Auto parts. Russian news links. Web browser message boards.

3.2.25

Maintenance version.

3.2.24

Searching for games on the net.

3.2.23

Search engines for health topics (Chapter 10.

3.2.22

Arabic language search engine.

3.2.21

Job search resources. Foreign currencies.

3.2.20

New Alta Vista mirror sites (Asia, and Spanish-based)

3.2.19

More on searching mailing list archives.

3.2.18

Maintenance version.

3.2.17

Kidlink

3.2.16

Maintenance version.

3.2.15

Statistical information on China.

3.2.14

Russian news links.

3.2.13

Holidays around the world. Human anatomy. Global population database.

3.2.12

3.2.11

Linux support. Meta-list of Internet Access Providers.

3.2.10

Webmaster forum. QBASIC help forum.

3.2.9

Forum for Windows 97 discussions. Basque culture discussions. More foreign language links.

3.2.8

Jokes.

3.2.7

Brass music. Japanese search engines.

3.2.4 - 3.2.6

Maintenance version.

3.2.3

Parts of Chapter 17 considerably changed.

3.2.2

Worldwide weather forecasts. More Web by email services.

3.2.1

Cookies.

3.2

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

3.1.23

Languages of the world.

3.1.22

Emerging economies. The Arab World. India. Internet surveys. Information society trends.

3.1.21

Browser add-ons.

3.1.20

Acupuncture. Selling/buying used computers. Searching mailing list archives.

3.1.19

Spanish language search engines.

3.1.18

Search engine focusing on India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

3.1.17

Searching Middle East Web pages. Monitoring changes in Web pages.

3.1.16

Scandinavian-oriented search engine. Links to international broadcasters.

3.1.15

Bob Dylan. Stevie Wonder. 3-d photography. Feminism. Portuguese language discussions. Russian movie database. Latest news from Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Russian search engine.

3.1.14

Sending and receiving electronic mail in Japanese.

3.1.13

Resources on drugs. Elton John.

3.1.12

Bruce Springsteen. Buddhist information. HIVNET.

3.1.11

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

3.1.10

Banks around the world. GATT's World Trade Resource Directory Index.

3.1.9

Maintenance releases: Updated URLs and email addresses.

3.1.8

New computer virus links.

3.1.7

Diabetes. Diarrhoea.

3.1.6

How to find people's email addresses.

3.1.5

Maintenance releases: Updated URLs and email addresses.

3.1.4

Global population database.

3.1.3

Bridge. Compression of files. The Virtual Library of WWW Development.

3.1.2

3.1.1

Searching mailing list message archives.

3.1

Maintenance releases: Updated URLs and email addresses.

3.0.19-21

Maintenance releases: Updated URLs and email addresses.

3.0.18

Hit [Search] to search the contents of the handbook.

3.0.13-17

Maintenance releases: Updated URLs and email addresses.

3.0.12

Many changes in Chapter 10, including: Meta-search agents; Searching narrow topic areas. Product database for IT professionals.

3.0.10-11

Maintenance release: Updated URLs and email addresses.

3.0.9

German language search engine. Guide to online bookstores.

3.0.8

The Electronic Text Center. US Patent and Trademark information.

3.0.7

News from China. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The European Commission's Advanced Communications Technologies and Services programme.

3.0.6

Genealogy. Ancient history search engine. Html standards.

3.0.5

The At One index of data existing on commercial online services.

3.0.4

Herpes information. Newsletter of free news digests covering Russia and the other CIS countries.

3.0.3

Searching the Web outside North America, and in other languages than English (Chapter 10).

3.0.2

The European Union's Trade Barriers Database.

3.0.1

Maintenance release.

3.0

Junk mail. CD-ROM database. The ZD Net free, personalized news service. Updated European Union links.

2.9.9

Maintenance release.

2.9.8

Free international news top stories.

2.9.7

Maintenance release.

2.9.6

Alta Vista for European users offers searches in European languages.

2.9.5

Time zone server. The Informant notification service.

2.9.4

Web based discussion forums.

2.9.3

Multiple sclerosis.

2.9.2

Links to online books about the Internet. SLiRP.

2.9.1

Maintenance version.

2.9

Major rewrite of Chapter 15.

2.8.11

Jokes. Shopping for hardware and software.

2.8.10

Another Usenet newsgroup email filter.

2.8.9

Dog information. The transplantation and donation page. Online background and source material relative to breaking news stories.

2.8.8

Learning Resources Directory. Newsgroups focusing on Microsoft Windows.

2.8.7

Searching for words in several dictionaries and glossaries in one operation.

2.8.6

Roleplaying game and discussion lists. United Nation Publications's CyberSchoolBus. Ancient world cultures. Uncensored news from Israel.

2.8.5

Free searching of Medline. Personal news search engine. Cuban news.

2.8.4

The STAMPS mailing list. Nigeria on the Net. The Tamil Language & Culture Discussion List. The Far Eastern Economic Review.

2.8.3

ZDNet's search engine.

2.8.2

Sumo wrestling. Drug database. Finding files to download on the Net.

2.8.1

Links to all newspapers online in the United Kingdom. Excite.

2.8

Major rewrite of Chapter 14.

2.7.6

Eaasy SABRE on the Web. Database of about every online newspaper in the world.

2.7.5

Local time around the world right now. Travel information on Japan, Bali, India. The Latin America database. Spanish/Portuguese/Catalan language search engines. WEB Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations.

2.7.4

Maintenance release.

2.7.3

Buying computers and peripherals online (Chapter 5).

2.7.2

Indian Economy Overview.

2.7.1

Lycos now indexes 51 million Web pages.

2.7

Major update of Chapter 13.

2.6.17

Links to Government Servers and Information and gateways to Eurasian Web pages.

2.6.16

Postage stamps. Mongolia. World History resources. Emergency Medicine. Finding telephone numbers. How to send free faxes and make free telephone calls through the Internet?

2.6.15

Registered users can retrieve a compressed html version of the handbook for local installation.

2.6.14

Undergraduate and post-graduate courses for study via the Internet.

2.6.13

Wine encyclopedia. Panic-Anxiety resource. Global demography and population information.

2.6.12

SIFT netnews filtering service moves to Reference.COM.

2.6.11

Parliamentary elections around the world. Heart disease information.

2.6.10

Major update of Chapter 15.

2.6.9

Currency exchange utility.

2.6.8

Macintosh shareware. Links to converters and calculators. Daily news reports from Russia. More on searching the Web by email.

2.6.7

The HotBot search service.

2.6.6

Maintenance version.

2.6.5

New LISTSERV email address/commands for the TOW and Kidlink lists.

2.6.4

Searching DejaNews by email (Chapter 12).

2.6.2 and 2.6.3

Updated links.

2.6.1

Maintenance release.

2.6

Chapter 12 updated and reorganized.

2.5.25

Free daily news about the Web.

2.5.24

The Usenet address database.

2.5.23

Global database for skiers. Genealogy. Persian links. European Governments. Online course in French. The Economist. News alert service. News from Russia.

2.5.22

New links to resources on ageing, and cancer. List for Ex-smokers. Free international news via continuous feeds from Reuters, Associated Press, and others. Business news from China. Economic analyses and indicators on the main European markets.

2.5.21

Updated links.

2.5.20

Updated links.

2.5.19

Updated links.

2.5.18

Updated links.

2.5.17

Updated links and email addresses.

2.5.16

The Africa Information Afrique News Archive.

2.5.15

Searching The Liszt Index of Electronic Mailing Lists by email. The German Federal Government. The Un-official Internet Book List.

2.5.14

Updated links. Finding FAQ files.

2.5.13

Updated links.

2.5.12

Several TV stations and shows on the Web. The Internet Movie Database. Links to stock exchanges and financial information around the world. Marketing- related discussion lists and announcement groups. Finding country-specific information.

2.5.11

The Fourth World Documentation Project. A daily digest of news reports from Russia and other former Soviet republics. Database of agricultural data (FAO).

2.5.10

The PointCast Inc. and IBM infoSage news filtering services (in Chapter 11).

2.5.9

The Lyon Life Gastronomy page for people fond of French cooking (in Chapter 4).

2.5.8

Chapter 9 reorganized.

2.5.7

Mailing lists focusing on Japan. The Gale Directory of Databases.

2.5.6

Updated links.

2.5.5

Updated links.

2.5.4

Large library of shareware, freeware and public domain programs at SimTel.Net.

2.5.3

Maintenance version.

2.5.2

Updated LISTSERV email addresses.

2.5.1

Updated links.

2.5

Added/updated links.

2.4.25

Links to your favorite TV shows. The Times. FT Profile. BBC. OCLC WorldCat. The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JIST). The Scientific & Technical Information Network.

2.4.24

The Microsoft Support Online Knowledge Base and The Apple Technical Information Library (Chapter 8).

2.4.23

The famous Opera theatre Teatro alla Scala of Milano.

2.4.22

World history links. Emergency medicine. Update on the NewsPage filtering service. Communications through Cable TV networks.

2.4.21

Links to Reuters. More links to Arab countries, and Islamic topics. Foreign languages for Travelers. Youth hostels for the budget traveller. Digest of articles about the Internet printed in media around the world. The Post in Zambia (newspaper). The Electric Library (http://www.elibrary.com). The ASEAN Internet Search. Internet's history. Master List of Newsgroup Hierarchies.

2.4.20

Slovak food recipes. Large travel site. Web page with list of all satellite TV channels worldwide. Database of scientific and engineering publications, research organizations and libraries in Russia.

2.4.19

The Global Metaphysical Resources List (Chapter 4).

200 resources on the Internet offering emotional support. (Chapter 6).

2.4.18

A Ludwig van Beethoven mailing list. Information about Brazil. El Mundo de la Cultura Maya. List of Spanish language resources. English language newspaper in Malaysia. Electronic journals about the Internet. Organizacion de los Estados Americanos. Virtual Reality links. Links for retrieval of most popular browsers.

The Internet Sleuth provides links to over 900 searchable databases on a wide variety of subjects.

2.4.17

Web Sites on National Parliaments. The French Foreign Office. Links to Catholic resources. Dental related Internet resources. Japan Press Network. Links to Russian newspapers and magazines. Links to library WWW servers. Internet access to Minitel.

2.4.16

The UK Theatre Web. Xiangqi, Weiqi (GO), and Taijiquan. French language links (Chapter 4).

2.4.15

Directory with thousands of travel related Web sites from more than 200 countries, 3500 locations. (Chapter 4).

Listings of study abroad programs from over 725 institutions in 110 countries. (Chapter 5).

Foreign news alert service from the U.S. Government with a clipping option. (Chapter 11).

2.4.14

More information for those planning a vacation in Greece and going to Saudi Arabia (Chapter 4).

Added a list of other Agora WWW by email servers in Chapter 12.

2.4.13 New email address

: presno@login.eunet.no

2.4.12

A Hong Kong site offers many links to reference works, dictionaries and thesauri in several languages (Chapter 10).

2.4.11

The Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen fan clubs (Chapter 4).

Internet statistics updated in Appendix 1.

2.4.10

NewsNet can now be reached at telnet://newsnet.comNewsNet

2.4.9

The official site of The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), and The Arab Countries' Sites page in Chapter 4.

2300 links to universities and colleges in 73 countries (Chapter 5).

A country by country listing of online newspapers throughout the World (Chapter 9).

2.4.8

Beatles and links to Papua New Guinea in Chapter 4.

The Chinese Herbs and Health page and associated mailing list (Chapter 6).

The EXPORT-IMPORT-INVEST Vietnam - Business Directories (Chapter 11).

The Scout Toolkit page (Appendix 6).

2.4.7

Aboriginal Art and northern lights in (Chapter 4).

Mailing list for beginning learners of kana and kanji, and source for those interested in French language and culture (Chapter 5).

Links to the top 100 computer- and software-related English language magazines (Chapter 8).

Mailing list for collectors and sellers of old, rare, scarce, and out-of-print books. (Chapter 10).

2.4.6

Links to Egypt and Egyptology resources (Chapter 4).

2.4.5

One-stop Internet source for news on Mexico (Chapter 9).

2.4.4

More links to African Safari information sources Chapter 4.

2.4.3

Links to city night life around the world in Chapter 4.

2.4.2

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (Chapter 11)

Travel information on all 56 countries of the African continent (Chapter 4)

2.4.1

The Excel support mailing list (Chapter 8)

2.4

Web page with with Greek newspapers (Chapter 9)

2.3.11

Comprehensive service with links to WWW servers in the former Soviet Union (Chapter 4)

2.3.10

"Wiener Zeitung", the oldest daily newspaper in the world (Chapter 9)

Anonymous remailers.

2.3.9

Up to the minute Arabic news (in Arabic. See Chapter 9).

2.3.8

Radio Vaticana Kurznachrichten (Chapter 9).

2.3.7

Alta Vista, impressive new Web indexing service from Digital Equipment Corp. (Chapter 10).

2.3.6

Mental health resources (Chapter 6).

The Liszt Index of Electronic Mailing Lists (Chapter 10).

2.3.5

International public law resource (in Chapter 11)

2.3.4

Real-time audio on the Internet with RealAudio. and real-time video with VDOLive. - (See Appendix 6).

2.3.0 to 2.3.3

New service offering WWW by email (in Chapter 12)

2.2.26

More on homeopathic medicine in Chapter 6

2.2.25

Free world news from Reuters NewMedia (Appendix 1).

2.2.23 to 2.2.24

Updated links.

2.2.22

ISDN information (Appendix 4).

2.2.21

The Central Institute for the Deaf (Chapter 6).
New pointer to mainland China news (Chapter 9).

2.2.20

Spanish language discussion about derechos humanos (Chapter 4).

2.2.19

Updated links.

2.2.18

More Windows 95 pointers in Chapter 8.
Extended pointers for pet owners in Chapter 4.
Russia Online.

2.2.17

The Stupendous Ejournal and Newsletter List in (Chapter 10).

2.2.16

Updated information on TRICKLE servers.

2.2.15

A virtual tour of Athen's Acropolis

2.2.14

Entry point to the cities of the world. in Chapter 4.

2.2.13

Updated links.

2.2.12

News from the Czech Republic (Chapter 9).

2.2.11

Updated links.

2.2.10

Internet is growing

2.2.9

Updated links.

2.2.8

SimTel's mirror sites. (Appendix 6)

2.2.3 to 2.2.7

Updated links.

2.2.2

Minitel (France) on the Internet.

2.2.1

Safety concerns when receiving mail (Chapter 12

2.2.0

More about Clarinet in Chapter 9
Windows '95 links (Chapter 8)
Central reference point for games on the Internet (Chapter 4)
Punk, Rap, Rave, Rock-n-Roll and several other new music pointers (Chapter 4
Chinese language resource (Appendix 4)