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An Internet Resource Roundup
by Thom Stark
I spend a lot of time researching the Internet: browsing the World Wide Web, lurking on USENET, perusing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), and so on. As a result, I learn about a considerable number of interesting facts and resources. I also recieve a fair amount of mail suggesting I could mention resources that you've discovered. Unfortunately, many of these resources, interesting as they may be, are not quite interesting or complex enough to justify devoting an entire column to them. Over time, h owever, a large enough collection has accumulated to warrant a whole column before they become outdated.
One example is the "Guide to Computer Vendors - Presented by SBA * Consutling" (http://www.ronin.com/SBA/), a set of hyperliinks to a large list of computer hardware and software vendors' home pages and related Internet resources. Wayne Spivak (wayn es@netcom.com), who maintains this resource, has alphabetized the list of companies and put each letter of the alphabet on a separate page, so a page downloads fairly quickly, despite that fact that a large number of companies are listed.
Microsoft Corp. has a similar, although smaller, collection of links to computer hardware and software vendors' home pages in the Microsoft Library (http://library.microsoft.com/compcos.htm). As of this writing, the links are collected on a single, large Web page. That's good news and bad news. The bad news is that it takes time to download the page, even when it's almost entirely text. The good news is that once you've downloaded it, you can save the page to a local disk drive (using any iteration of Mosaic or Netscape Communications Corp. Netscape, choose File/Save As, and accept the default filename extension of .htm) and access it by using your browser's File/Open command and choosing the saved .htm file. Of course, unless you go ba ck to the Microsoft Library, you won't have access to additions or changes that have been made to the list, but you won't have to fight for bandwidth with Microsoft Windows 95 users, either. And you can always periodically reconnect to the Microsoft Libr ary and save an updated copy of the page.
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