Navigating the Internet

The World Wide Web: The World Wide Web Consortium promotes the Web by producing specifications and reference software.
Search Engines: Northern Light, an ad-free fast search engine; Digital Equipment Corporation's AltaVista Web and News full text search engine.; Open Text; InfoSeek Search Engines (capitalization sensitive); Lycos The Catalog of the Internet; A collection of WWW Search Engines
Starting Points for Internet Exploration: NCSA has set up this page for people who really want to find something and don't know where to start. It contains pointers into several lists of data sources. Other starting points are the Internet Resources Meta-Index and General Overview of Worldwide Internet Resources.
The Internet Scout Report: The Scout Report is a daily publication which reports new resources thought to be of interest to researchers and educators.
Yahoo - A Guide to WWW: This is a very useful hiearchical guide to the World Wide Web. There is a very good section on Astronomy.