"Internet 101" With Russ Haynal

Welcome to the "Internet 101" show which aired on C-SPAN . This page served as a starting-point for online demonstrations. As a service to the viewers of that show, I have update this page to include sites and topics mentioned during the show.

Indices to Government sites

• Virtual Library
• Federal Web Locator at Villanova
• Yahoo
• FedWorld (Gateway to many government bulletin boards)

Interesting Government sites

• Whitehouse
• CIA (includes their World Factbook)
• FBI
• National Science Foundation (NSF)

Good sources of Government Information

• Full-text search and retrieval of main GPO publications; GPO Gate
• Full Text search of Legislation/Congressional Record; Thomas
• Commerce Business Daily (Tomorrow's Edition)
• Securities Exchange Commission (Search the EDGAR DATABASE of corporate information)
• For Government Contractors: Govcon and Fedcenter

To continue your exploration of the Internet

• Northstar, A Navigation Resource
• Search Engine: Lycos
• Subject Tree: Yahoo

This section contains additional links based on the show's discussion:

• For history of the Internet see Hobbes Internet Timeline
• House of Representatives and the web pagers of individual members
• List of online Teaching and Learning resources
• The censorship issue
• Info about Security and Encryption
• Software for Talking over the Internet
• list of news resources and magazines
• The Wall Street Journal and Walt Mossberg's column
• Information about my CD-ROM The Internet: A knowledge Odyssey (since so many of you asked about it via email)

Note for my Alumni: Your referrals are always appreciated