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WWW INFO. WWW = World Wide Web = addresses on the Internet with graphics & text.
behind the times.
their own web browsers. You can use them from your home machine (service costs about $15/month, with no additional phone charges.)
from the base prompt type LYNX.
Arrow keys: Up and Down to move.
Right to follow a link; Left to go back. O)ther cmds H)elp G)oto P)rint M)ain screen Search: / o)ptions Q)uit to email yourself a document: P for print
WWW sites of interest to humanists:
the most useful site, covering nearly all the WWW. updated daily (over 30,000 sites)
guide to history sources. You select the item you want, click, and connect direct to it. Use LYNX or WWW
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.htm excellent guide to worldwide history sources (based at U Kansas) * 1492 Exhibition* * AAS: American Antiquarian Society (US) * ABAA: The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (Catalogue Seaches by Speciality (US) * ABZU: The Ancient Near East (US) * Academe This Week * African-American Mosaic (US) * African Art Graphics Files* (US) etc etc 3. http://www.culture.fr The French Ministry of Culture WWW homepage offers a remarkable starting point for anyone wishing to learn about France or Cyberspace in general, with an ambitious plan for future expansion and an already - extraordinary collection of online images. 4. HTTP://www.usask.ca = U Saskatchewan
5. Assoc Asian Studies: http://www.easc.indiana.edu/~aas 6. Houghton Mifflin publishers: http://www.hmco.com 7. http://www.virginia.edu/ U of Virginia 8. other Recommended Internet Destinations for Historians
The following sample internet destinations were recommended by various H-Net list members. (H-Teach 4/8/95) WEB SITES: 1. Association for History and Computing, Groningen, the Netherlands: http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/ 2. Cardiff's Movie Database: http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
3. Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu 4. Demography statistics: http://opr.princeton.edu (link to data
archive through European Fertility Project) 5. Global Network Navigator (commercial, but useful):
6. Higher Ed Web Pages List (over 1000 university web page
locations): http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html 7. IHR-Info (Institute for Historical Research), London:
ihr.sas.ac.uk:8080/ihr/ihr0101.html 8. International Affairs Resources:
http://www.pit.edu/~ian/ianres.html 9. Mississippi State -- historic documents, esp Latin America:
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html 10. Ohio State History Home Page:
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/humanities/history/histdep.html 11. United Nations Development Databases: http://www.undp.org 12. World History Standards Debate:
13. H-Net web page? --not yet folks