I've got some links to UseNet-related stuff here: [obUC: Under Deconstruction]
Perhaps the most important: a site with all the FAQs for various Usenet groups,
online...
*Very* important: the Jargon
File, chock-full of only slightly outdated definitions of just what the
hell all this stuff flowing over the phone wires *is*, for the newbies...
the Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time fantasy series homepage;
the Kibology Page,
with access to the
alt.religion.kibology archives, including the McElwaine and Plutonium
posting archives. And another McElwaine
archive to boot... Plus the
Unauthorized Kibological Archive maintained by Ellen Holmes... and the
Kibo Page via
ftp to Netcom so watch it... and a separate link directly to E Teflon Piano's
This Week In
Kibology semiregular posting as archived by The BOB(c) and later Ellen...
And, once you're done with all that, a link to Kibo
him_self_ and a gloop of pages full of zacky waniness.
This is a link to a directory full of Kibological posts
from various people at various times. I have a link over on the net-legends
minifaqs directory, but it deserves to be up here too. Enjoy!
On a related note, the Usenet Kook-of-the-Month archives (and alt.usenet.kooks
FAQ) are no longer at the account where they used to be. There is a new Kook-of-the-Month web page...
and here's a 'Kooks Museum' link...
and a link to the Interlog Kooks
Page which includes stuff on Allisat, Drss. Neutopia, and Joan L. Brewer...
And for those of you wanting to spice up your Web experience a bit, the
Zippyfilter page for Web surfing.
Oh, and a list of newsgroups which have archives somewhere or other. And a
link to the DejaNews searchable
all-of-Usenet archive - invaluable if you wanna see all of what Kibo's written
recently, for instance. Plus, since they fit here, a/some link(s) to Web
search engines: AltaVista, for
instance.
And the InfoSeek Webcrawler info-searching
site, just in case what you _really_ want to find isn't listed on this page...
The actual homepage of
BIFF!!!1!!!! [read at your own risk]; and also the homepage of Richard Sexton, intimately
connected with BIFF...
A link to the
NetFame Page, which may or may not turn out to be a good idea.
Also a Douglas Adams homepage
with access to the Galactic Guide
project.
The IBIC (Internet
Book Information Center) homepage... and a link to Future
Fantasy, an online SF bookstore in Palo Alto, CA; and also a link
to the newly-opened New York Public Library
webpage - stacks 'n' stacks of pure information...
And in the opposite direction, a
Bulwer-Lytton contest page.
An HTML version of the alt.folklore.urban FAQ, to go along with the UL archives
at official AFU site ... and another
a.f.u FAQ
page...
A link to the Canter & Siegel report, about everybody's favorite cyberspammers...
and a link to a collection
of humor about various forms of net abuse.
The Queer Resources Directory, and the soc.motss Home Page, and the spdcc.com archives, and OutNow, a queer online newsmag...
Stolen from Gavin's home page, a page full of Weird and
Interesting Devices - talk to a cat! Check on a hot tub! Throw
a snowball! Write on a scrolling sign! Finger a coke machine! Wheeee!!!
A link to the Human
Genome Project's files of results of mapping our innermost clockwork...
The SF Resource
Directory at gandalf.rutgers.edu...
And the TOR Books
Home Page, complete with sample chapters;
The Electronic Newsstand, including
selections from Games Magazine...
A site that gives haiku
interpretations of the day's headlines...
The Journal of Irreproducible Results'
archives at {ftp,gopher}.vortex.com, archived as the Annals of Improbable
Research...
And a link to the Obfuscated C Contest
page. Read, marvel, digest, enjoy.
And a page full of advertisers' addresses from
Scientific American magazine. Along with the direct link to their Web page. Yes, this particular
webpage you're reading has been around for a While...
The homepage of the alt.fan.warlord Inner Circle... and a
collection of good
posts from that newsgroup, from 9/96 on... and another such collection, covering
1995 to August 1996.
The Bastard Operator from Hell homepage mirror in the USA... (clickity click) ...and
some of the sysadmin
man pages your local BOFH may in the course of their duties refer to...
Plus a pagefull of
Quotes from some BOFHs, in the place they go to recover. (Do not attempt
to post there - you might get Noticed...)
And a related note - have you ever wondered what would happen if operating systems were
furniture?
And the homepage of one of
alt.folklore.urban's newer Old Hats, full of its own interesting links,
including several to pages of other denizens of alt.religion.kibology, tangled
in an incestuous vortex of hypertext links...
And speaking of which, here's
Spatch's homepage. To explain why I know him I'd have to explain what
alt.stupidity is, and that can't really be done. But there it is.
The FAQ for Nomic, a game of rules...
A little subscreen of cartoon images of various
sorts, mostly comic strips...
And the Suicide Squid
Archives (*LARGE* - don't ask...)!
Along the same lines, the ftp site for
alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork's FAQ...
A site containing various Animaniacs material (quote: "Boingee, boingee, boingee!!!")...
The Angband WWW HomePage...
A site with pics of the
comet that collided with Jupiter...
The official Home Page for the Church of the SubGenius, as promoted by Reverend Ivan
Stang...
And some standard reply forms for various newsgroups
on Usenet.
The FAQ for the
newsgroup rec.music.a-cappella. And a couple of homepages for
SPEBSQSA itself and
for barbershop
FAQs...
An address for the back issues of WIRED
magazine on-line. Read, enjoy, scratch your head.
The much-ballyhooed-by-Newt Congressional WWW
Page, for your enjoyment, delectation, and looking up of what your
Congresscritters do all day.
And two pages about Newt Gingrich, with opposing
viewpoints! (Remember, if you don't wanna read it, you don't havta download it.)
Plus a homepage
containing semi-up-to-date info about the Church of Scientology's sometime
crusade against various portions of the net and for
protection of the trade secrets of that particular "religion"...
...and, speaking of self-styled mystics and the people who love to hate them,
here's a couple of Web pages for James Randi, long-time foe of Uri Geller [a 'psychic' whose stable
of tricks consists solely of magicians' sleight-of-hand tactics plus a
confederate who gets most of the information Uri "receives" because people
aren't looking at the confederate, they're watching Uri] and long-time
Skeptical Inquirer supporter as well; that was his personal Web page, and
this is the Randi
Hotline web page...
A link which
apparently allows people to do traceroutes from there. Have fun. And one
which lets you get whois
information. [If you don't know what either of these are, don't worry about
them ... but check out news.admin.net-abuse.misc ...]
Finally, a site at Ohio State that has
info on various WWW/Usenet thingys, including a WWW version of the FAQ-server
at rtfm.mit.edu and a link to the RFCs (which define the standards for Internet
and Usenet and email and eleventy-zillion other things). And a site which has
lists of archives of various Usenet groups; note that most Usenet groups
are *not* archived, and that there is no "central archive site" for Usenet,
as it would most certainly explode in only a few weeks from the sheer volume
of postings... plus a link to another
storage site, FTP only, for the RFCs...
...speaking of which: here are what exist of the Usenet readership reports from November 1992
all the way until now (September 633rd, 1993, as I write this...) [Usenet has
its own peculiar traditions...]
...and, last,
Hobbes' Internet Timeline, for those who want to know how it all started.
More to come! But now, back to my personal page...
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