Starting Points for Web Explorers

This page is intended to serve as a starting point for new users of the web, it's largely a collection of links to various resources that are of interest to everyone.

Use the Up and Down arrows to navigate from one link to the next (you can also use the 2 and 8 keys for the same purpose). Use the enter or return key to activate a link. Type H for Help, and K to see a list of all available commands.

The Internet and Lynx

• Help menus for lynx, the beginner's guide to using Lynx.
• World Wide Web FAQ, Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the WWW.
• Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive contains various resources posted to newsgroups. From the general to the esoteric.

Searching and Indexing Resources

• Yahoo!, a well organized index to web resources, probably the first place most of you want to go to.
• Altavista, an extremely good place to begin a search for material on an esoteric topic.
• Lycos, an index and search engine that provides basic abstracts of documents when presenting search results.
• InfoSeek, a search engine and index.