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General resource guides

The Charm Net home page has links to several useful resource guides and indexes, and includes a short critical appraisal of each one:

http://www.charm.net/

The home page of Nexor,

http://www.nexor.co.uk/

a private company with public Web services, has links to various searchable indexes. ALIWEB is an indexing system which allows the user to enter key words, and then performs a search, creating a virtual document from the search results in the form of hypertext links with a short abstract of the documents found. CUSI is a semi-automatic Web catalogue which can be interrogated in a similar way. Nexor has links to The Whole Internet Catalogue (see below), WAIS, and various robot-generated catalogues.

Kevin Hughes, of Enterprise Integration Technologies, has written a general introductory guide the Web, published in May 1994, which is very clear, and quite useful as a short introduction for someone who knows very little about the Web:

http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/

The Whole Internet Guide by Ed Krol[12] is a general guidebook to the Internet, covering the main Internet information systems, including the Web, in some detail. The book's resource guide, which comprises a catalogue of information published on the Web, is also available in electronic form on the Global Network Navigator (see also Section ):

http://gnn.com/

This guide, the first of its type to be written, has several imitators but is probably still the best general book on the Internet available.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.