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On this page I will give you a collection of links to the best sites on the internet in a few categories.

 

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This week's top surfing destinations

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Online services are probably the best visited sites on the internet. They provide a lot of informations, and they also get finding of some content on the internet much easier. All of them are trying to get users by additional content, such as free e-mail, live online chat, real-time online games, etc.

Online services are the right places for beginners in using internet.

Here is the list of the most popular worlds online services.

 

1. GO NETWORK: http://www.go.com/

This is my favorite online service, and I really recommend it to you. It provides an excellent search-engine, and a lot of cool stuff... If you are a member (and you can always become a member absolutely for free!), you can play online games and chat with other members of GO Network, you can see what is in message boards, you will get a life-time free e-mail account, and you can create your own web-site on it, totally for free (just as I did).

 

 

2. AOL (America online): http://www.aol.com/

AOL - America online is one of first online services, and today he is diffidently one of the most powerful ones and not only in America. It is a specific site, because some parts of its service is not free, but AOL gives access to the internet to his members. It has excellent chat and message board system, but unfortunely you can use it only if you are a member, what is not free. Visit it anyway, maybe you'll like it.

 

 

3. EXCITE: http://www.excite.com/

Excellent site. It offers complete personalisation of his pages, very good search engine, and a lot of other activities, such as chat, games...

 

 

4. LYCOS: http://www.lycos.com/

The right place for all people who like to have fun. If you like on-line chatting and games, visit this site. But, that's not all. Just like the other sites of this type, it also offers free web space, search engine and much more.

 

 

5. MSN - THE MICROSOFT NETWORK: http://home.microsoft.com/

Here you can see how does it looks the online service of the greatest worlds software producer. The best part of it is diffidently Hotmail, the free e-mail. It also provides search engine, chat, personalizing options etc.

 

 

6. NETSCAPE NETCENTER: http://home.netscape.com/

Very good site, provides a lot contents of every kind. It is integrated With Netscape Communicator, so if you have it, you can use some advanced search options, and much more.

 

 

 

7. YAHOO!: http://www.yahoo.com

Very popular service. It has an excellent search-engine separated in many categories, and My Yahoo, personalizing system is one of the best realized. This site has the greatest number of his members, so you should visit it.

 

 

8. ALTA VISTA: http://www.altavista.com/

AltaVista is the search engine with the largest database of web pages, and that's why she is so popular. If you are searching for something on the internet, with AltaVista you will find it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are listed the best sites with content related to computers.

 

1. APPLE COMPUTERS: http://www.apple.com/

This site will be especially interesting to Macintosh users (I am one of them), but, after launching QuickTime 4, wich supports streaming, this site has become interesting for users of PC-s too. On this site you can watch some of the best worlds TV programs in live, in QuickTime format. These pages are beautifully designed, and on them you will find plenty of informations about computers,

 

 

2. CNET - Computer Network: http://www.cnet.com/

Source of news about computers. It also offers Software and hardware recensions, free downloads and more.

 

3. REAL NETWORKS: http://www.real.com/

Here you can get everything you need to watch high quality audio and video programs over the internet.

 

4. CYBER ATLAS: http://www.cyberatlas.com/

On this site you can learn everything about the Internet.

 

5. FOUR11: http://www.four11.com/

If you are looking for somebody's e-mail address, try here. It is one of the best Internet search engines for finding people.

 

6. COOLARCHIVE: http://www.coolarchive.com/

Here you can find all sort of stuff for your computer: Fonts, screen-savers, clipart, photographs...

 

7. X O O M . C O M: http://www.xoom.com/

Last, but not at all the least, Xoom is one of the coolest web sites that I've ever seen. If you want to create your own web-site, and you don't know where to do it, visit Xoom. It offers free, unlimited web space, you can easily create your sites, but you can do it also with your software and just upload files to server. You can even add a search-engine or chatroom to your site - all for free. On this site you can also download all sorts of utilities and program, that will help you with creating your web-site. It is really great.

 

 

 

 

In its past, Internet was a very serious media, but today it provides some contents that are made just for fun. Here are the best sites of this category.

 

1. GAMECENTER: http:// www.gamecenter.com/

2. GAMES DOMAIN: http://www.gamesdomain.com/

Visit these pages if you are interested in computer games.

 

3. CD NOW: http:// www.cdnow.com/

This is one of the most popular on-line CD-shops.

4. MP3: http://www.mp3.com/

5. EMUSIC: http://www.emusic.com/

Go to this pages if you want to learn about or download mp3 music.

 

 

6. MICROSOFT EXPEDIA: http://www.expedia.com/

7. THE VIRTUAL TOURIST: http://www.vtourist.com/

If you are traveling somewhere, and want to learn more about that place, or if you just travel a lot, visit the upper links.

 

7. INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE: http:// www.imdb.com/

8. HOLLYWOOD ON LINE: http://www.hollywood.com/

Here you will find everything you wanted to know about movies.

 

9. DISCOVERY CHANNEL ON LINE: http://www.discovery.com/

This is web site of the famous TV station, and it provides similar contens as that station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. CNN INTERACTIVE: http://www.cnn.com/

This site is really one of the best sites on the internet. It has an excellent design, but much better then design is the amount and quality of the data on this site. It brings the freshest news in the world (just like CNN TV), from the areas of politics, sports, science, technology... Visit it - you will not regret.

Here are some other pages of that topic.

 

2. ABC NEWS: http://www.abcnews.com/

3. EURO NEWS: http://www.euronews.net/

4. LOS ANGELES TIMES: http://www.latimes.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the list of sites about science and technology.

 

 

 

 1. CYBERIA: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Expo/

Here are exposed the greatest achievements in physics, astrophysics and computers.

 

2. EXPLORE SCIENCE: http://www.explorescience.com/

This is an interactive introduction to science.

 

3. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

4. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: http://www.sciam.com/

These are the online versions of this respectable scientific magazines.

 

 

 

 

If you like astronomy (I do) visit these links:

 

1. ASTROSURF: http://www.astrosurf.com/

2. ASTRONOMY MAGAZINE: http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html

3. ASTRO HOME: http://crux.astr.ua.edu/AstroHome.html

4. DATABASE OF CLEMENTINE MOON IMAGES: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clib/

5. EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY: http://www.eso.org/

6. FOURMILAB: http://www.fourmilab.ch/

7. GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY HOME PAGE: http://www.griffithobs.org/index.html

8. HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: http://marvel.stsci.edu/

9. SBIG - SANTA BARBARA INSTRUMENT GROUP: http://www.sbig.com/

10. SEDS: http://www.seds.org/

11. SKY & TELESCOPE MAGAZINE: http://www.skypub.com/

12. SKY MAPS: http://archive.stsci.edu/dss/

13. SETI ORGANISATION (Search for extraterrestial intelligence): http://www.seti.org/

14. SETI@HOME: SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTIAL INTELLIGENCE AT HOME: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

15. NASA HOMEPAGE: http://www.nasa.gov/

 

So... that's it. I hope that i presented to you enough links, and that you are pleased eith that pages. Note that this page is still in development, and it is possible that some of links may not work well. If you encounter with an error link, write to me on [email protected], and describe the error on the link.

Have a pleasent surfing...

 

 

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