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Internet RFCs. These document Internet protocols.
MUD Resource Collection at UPenn.
Coollist is a utility to set up mailing lists.
Public Access Unix: Search for "public access unix" on AltaVista; read a Usenet FAQ; try Solaria.
DNS Resources Directory

List of Internet Top-Level Domains (excerpted from RFC 1394). Provides domain-to-country translation.
Network Information Centers: RIPE (Europe), DE-NIC (Germany), APNIC (Asia-Pacific Region), InterNIC (America and rest-of-world).
Whois does domain-name lookups on the InterNIC. Use this to find out who "owns" a domain name, and who the (human) contacts for it are.
InterNIC's Domain Name Dispute Policy.
Moving (transferring) a domain name from one provider/site/owner to another: see the InterNIC instructions.
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
Domain Store will register a domain for a $50 fee. There are many other outfits like this, since the cost of the service performed is essentially zero.

Cascading Style Sheets
E-Ads will pay you for banner clickthroughs on your pages.
Expose yourself to the world — how to publicize your site. (Yahoo.)

Somewhere in NYC
HTML Jump Gate (Tonya Engst) has HTML, Mac web-authoring stuff.
IHiP Imagemap Help Page.
Imagiware Support Pages has good www development info.
Microsoft Site Builder Network. You have to implement an ActiveX control to qualify, so here's mine.
Webmonkey is Wired's how-to-www site.
weebtech articles has some nice articles on web tech topics (cgi, cookies, Perl, tcl, etc.).
WWW Security Index (Rutgers University).
WebCompare offers comparisons of WWW servers and browsers.

Colossus links to stuff that they support on webpages — a list of things to look for when searching for webspace.
The Ultimate Web Host List.

The Bandwidth Conservation Society, with tutorials on making your images faster/better/stronger.
Browser-safe color palette (.ACT file) for Photoshop. Using this will keep your GIFs from being dithered by a browser. (You might have to explicitly tell your browser to save this file instead of displaying it.) The place I got it, with directions on how to use it, is here.
Photoshop Web Reference with good how-to info.
Scanning Photos for the Web, part of the excellent photo.net.
TWAIN Working Group developed the TWAIN standard for using scanners on PCs.

It's not just for breakfast anymore!

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — H. Spencer

FreeBSD homepage.
Linux meta-FAQ, Yahoo! listings.
Unix serial port and sysadmin resources (Stokely Consulting). Incl. Solaris PPP/modem info.
Perl is an evolutionary progression of Unix's shells and mini-language tools. ActiveState has Win/DOS ports.
The Solaris 2 FAQ in HTML format (or ASCII).
Sun Performance Q&A by Adrian Cockcroft, SunWorld Online.

CDR: Adaptec Easy-CD Mailing List archive.
IrDA Serial Infrared Interface Technology.
PC Hardware: Pez's Gear List.
Ian Harries Documents & Information is a great collection of hardware hacking info, including stepper motors and PC parallel port interfacing.
Interfacing the PC (Craig Peacock) has extensive info on connecting to PC parallel and serial ports.

The good old days.

Doing Wheelies in Exceed - Enabling the mouse wheel in the Hummingbird X-Server (v6.2).
Build Your Own Bed, from the Home Depot school of furniture design.
Converting Holiday Lights for 12V Operation, i.e., on your car or motorcycle.