A searchable site to help you find the shareware you want. Accepts new material from the public.
A vast collections of freeware, shareware, with search engine. Accepts new material from the public. News, 18 Feb 97:....LIKELY TO BE CEASING TRADING.... there was too much 'take' and too little 'give' from the internet community. Have you registered the shareware you use? I'm leaving the link only because there is a chance it may survive in some form, but don't be surprised if you get 'Not Found'
Looking for news, or archives from newspapers? If you know of a newspaper or news source that isn't in this list I'll be surprised!
I'm told that you can get the text of every US national TV newscast from 1968 onwards at this site. Think about it. (Thank you, Workman Publishing 'Page-A-Day' calendar, and Sister- who took the hint about what I'd like for Christmas!)
If you are an investor in the US stock market, you may want to look around the homepages of things like 'Money' magazine. Once upon a time, they would send you, free, 5 emails each week with a usually interesting and useful article. (7/08... if it is still available. I haven't been getting it for a while, and haven't gone looking for how to re-subscribe. Too many of these things today just send useless, annoying teasers: "Big drug company in shock revelation (subscribe to read story)")
http://www.altavista.digital.com/ Great Search Engine- Alta Vista
(I'll assume you know about search engines by now! But once upon a time, people had to be told about them.)
Looking for a page with 'Sheepdog' and 'Boyd' on it? (Or even something containing the words 'free' and 'msdos'?) This search engine will find it for you. They also give good guidance on composing a query. They say they index all the words in the sites they have processed, and they include usegroup material. Your search can be simple (Boyd Sheepdog), but it is worth looking at what they have provided to overcome the limitations of simple schemes. (launches "space shuttle" -june) would exclude pages about weaving shuttles or containing the word June)
Today, it takes you to www.realarcade.com/ which seems to be a similar venture... but I haven't checked it carefully. It did some annoying things with my browser (launched extra pages)
This ('Shareware Database- Softsite', above) is (7/08: was?) a well organised database of software, with descriptions available and other features. Sadly, it has revised its operating philosophy, and now only lists Windows games. (7/08: Previous sentence a dated reference to the site's withdrawing of support for MS-DOS stuff.)
(7/08: Description may be out of date, but will be broadly right. Simtel is a Great Grandfather of online software libraries.) This is an excellent source of non-game MS-Dos and Windows software. You can preview a 'Readme' file for anything in the archive, before downloading the program itself. Some educational games are in the archive.
This will let you search by platform and keywords among 160,000 shareware programs... pc (& in an exception to my rule: Mac s/w)
7/08: Years ago, I said the following about this site:
(Any site is off line from time to time, but this one seems to suffer more than some. Too popular?!)
At 7/08, on my first (and so far only) try, I couldn't get in, but it seems to be there still. Probably worth making an effort to discover the current right way to access this.
7/08: I didn't try accessing the above. Perhaps worth looking into.
Windows 3.x, but you can probably get other stuff by editing the URL! This is a large ftp site index... it takes a time to download... you might like to download it to a disc file.
7/08: Ah, the good old days. Remember riding in the back of pick-up trucks? I doubt there are many live webcams from school classrooms today.
(7/08: Entry as it read a while ago...) <This entry is somewhat out of date.... but the link may still get you somewhere useful> If you don't normally download graphics, right/click on the graphic marker to the right of 'Camera Page' to see... sometimes... a picture of what's going on in this West-coast-of-America classroom at the moment. The site is not very robust... don't be alarmed if you don't 'get through' every time.
Long before 7/08, my description read "For all those leisure hours..." Now the site is a photo sharing site, like Flickr or Panoramio.... but at least the great name survives.
Information/ images from a serious piece of research in which a human cadaver was sliced (at right angles to spine) into 1mm sections.
7/08: Long ago, you could access the results in a splendid, iteractive form. Today, with a brief search, I couldn't find that. However one paper from nih.gov did give access to a short animation which may be of interest. If you find the old, interactive full access, please let me know!!