Special Internet Connections
Scott Yanoff
yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Last Update: 3/25/92
- Am. Philos. Assoc.
- APA buletin board
- Archie
- Searches almost all anonymous ftp sites for any program you want by name.
use direct
WWW/WAIS Archie or chose a telnet site:
Canada,
Finland,
Australia,
UK,
Israel, or in the United Staes:
MD,
NE,
NY,
NJ.
- Automated Data Servce
- Navigational/Time/Astonomical information. (Login: ads)
- CARL
- Online database, book reviews, magazine fax delivery service.
- CHAT
- Convers. Hypertext Access Tech. - info. files. (Login:chat)
- Chess Server
- Play/watch real-time chess with human opponents. Type 'help' for help
- CUFAN
- Clemson U. Forestry & Agricultural Network.
Must be on a real VT terminal or good VT100 emulator!
- Dante Project
- Divine Comedy and reviews. (At Login type: connect dante)
- Distance Educat
- (Hostname: uk.ac.open.acs.vax Username: icdl)
- DUATS
- Aviation weather, flight planning. (Login: last name)
One service for certified pilots, one for uncertified.
- Earthquake Info
- Recent quake info (location, time, magnitude, etc.) (Finger server)
- E Math
- Am. Math. Society sponsored bbs with software and reviews.
Password: e-math.
- FEDIX
- Info. on scholarships, minority assistance, etc. (login: fedix)
- Freenet
- USA Today Headline News, Sports, etc... Also from
Youngstown.
- GenBank
- Gene sequence information. (Password: 4nigms)
- Geographic Server
- Info by city or area code (Population, Lat./Long., Elevation, etc).
- Georgetown Med. Lib.
- Medical Library(Login: medlib Password: dahlgren Last name: netguest)
- Gopher
- Access to other services, gophers, documents, etc.
- Ham Radio Callbook
- National ham radio call-sign callbook.
- HP Calculator BBS
- BBS for HP Calc. users, with chat mode. (Login: new)
- Hytelnet Server
- Access to many other services. Prefers vt100 emul. (Login: hytelnet)
- INFO - Rutgers CWIS
- Dictionary, thesaurus, CIA world fact book, quotations database.
- Info/Software Server
- journals, unix stuff, etc. Services:
infoserv or
softserv.
- Internet Resource Guide
- compressed/tar'd list of net resources.
- IRC Telnet Client
- Internet Relay Chat access, like a CB on the computer.
- ISAAC
- Info. System for Advanced Academic Computing, for IBM users.
- Law Library/Archives
- Telnet session
Law libraries and legal research. (Login: login anonymous guest).
Also archive offering
copies of laws for each state, and more!
- Library of Congress
- COPY of Library of Congress (Assumes terminal is emulating a vt100).
- List of Lists
- List of interest groups/email lists in .
(or mail mlol-request@wariat.nshore.ncoast.org)
- Lunar/Planet
- Resources on Geology, Geophys, Astron., Astrophys.
- Lyric Server
- Lyrics as text files.
- Mac Software Archive
- Ftp'able software for the Macintosh computers.
- Melvyl
- access to various libraries. Type 'other' at prompt to see others.
- MOLIS
- Minority Online Information Service.
- NASA Headline News
- Daily press releases from NASA. (Finger server)
- NASA SpaceLink
- Latest NASA news, including shuttle launches and satellite updates.
- NED
- NASA Extragalactic Database. (Login: ned)
- NICOL
- Access to internet resources, Electronic. Publishing Service (Login: nicol)
- NICOLAS
- Network Info. Center On-Line Aid System (Login: dftnic)
- NODIS
- Menu-driven access to Nat'l Space Science Data Center (Login: nodis)
nssdc or
nssdca.
- Oceanic Info. Center
- (Login: info)
- PENpages
- Agricultural info (livestock reports, etc.) (Login: PNOTPA)
- Public-Access Unix
- Free account, with access to various UNIX features.
Available from:
DU (login:new),
Merit (login:newsuser),
Ann Arbour (Which host: um-m-net Enter 'g' for guest. login: newuser).
- Recipe Archives
- MANY food recipes.
From DEC
or from Miami
- SDDAS
- SW Research Data Display & Analysis Center.
- SERVICES
- Access to nearly every listed service! (Login: services)
- Software Server
- Similar to Archie. Type help for a list of commands.
- Spacemet
- Science/space bbs.
- SPAN
- Space Physics Analysis Network (Login: SPAN_NIC)
- STIS
- Science & Technology Information System. (Login: public)
- Supernet
- Excellent menu-driven information searches (of what?). (Login: supernet)
- Supreme Court Rulings
- Archive of ASCII files of Supreme Court rulings
- UMD Info Database
- Info. docs on many subjects. (Login: info)
- UNC BBS
- Access to Library of Congress and nationwide libraries (Login: bbs)
- WAIStation
- Wide Area Info. Service. (Login: wais).
See archive for more info.
- Weather Service
- City/State forecasts, ski conditions, earthquake reports, etc.
- World-Wide Web
- A login access point to the entire web of WWW, WAIS, Gopher, Archie and FTP data.
- ZIB Electronic Library
- Library of software, links to other libraries. (Login: elib)
NOTE: NO LOGIN NAMES OR PASSWORDS ARE REQUIRED UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE.
If it prompts you for a login name, you did something wrong, or are not
running on a machine that the system you telnetted to supports.
Mail servers
- C64 Archive Server
- mail twtick@corral.uwyo.edu
Subject: Mail-Archive-Request Body-of-letter: help (hit return) end
- Archie Mail Servers
- mail archie@
Subject: help Offers: alterative Archie access to those w/o ftp or telnet.
- FTP Mail
- mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
Subject:(hit return) Body-of-letter: help (return) quit Offers:ftp via email
- Genetics Bank
- mail gene-server@bchs.uh.edu
Subject: help Offers: genetic database accessable via email.
- Graf-Bib
- mail graf-bib@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: help Body-of-letter: send index Offers: graphics bibliography.
- Mail Srver/Usr Lookup
- mail mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
in body of mail message: send usenet-addresses/[name searching for(1 word)]
- Music Newsletter
- mail listserv@vm.marist.edu (internet) or
mail listserv@marist (bitnet).
Body-of-letter: SUBSCRIBE UPNEWS Offers: Reviews, intviews.
- NetLib
- mail netlib@ornl.gov
or mail netlib@uunet.uu.net
Subject:(hit return) Body-of-letter: send index Offers: Software thru email
- Oracle
- mail oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
The "Usenet Oracle" Mail with subject as "help" for more info.
- OSS-IS
- Archive.
Also mail info@soaf1.ssa.gov with "send index" as your msg.
Many FAQ's, ftp lists, library and service lists, gov't documents.
- Sid's Music Server
- mail sl291003@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: BOOTHELP Offers: Lists of rare live recordings, cd's for sale.
- StatLib Server
- mail statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu
Mail with line: send index. Offers: Prgms, Datasets, etc. for statisticians.
FTP Sites/Archives
- ocf.berkeley.edu
- Docs, 5 puritytests, the Bible, Dec. of Ind, lyrics..
- wuarchive.wustl.edu
-
Gifs archive,
software for pc's, etc.
- ftp.uu.net
- You name it, it's here!
- archive.umich.edu
- Software for MS-Dos computers, Mac, Amiga, Apple2, Apollo...
PLEASE email yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu if you have any additional info/corrections/comments!
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