Authority & Reference

Internet Technical Resources

Nua - The Internet survey
The authoritative online source for information on Internet demographics and trends.

The Internet Society
The history of internet: What is the Internet? how does it work?

The Internet Society
Internet Standards

The Internet Society
Internet Conduct

The Internet Society

Beginners

Beginner Central
What is the Internet, Getting Start, email, FTP ...…

Internet for Beginners

Internet101.org
The Internet | The Web | Getting Started | Safe Surfing | Viruses | Browsers | Email | Search | Locating Software | Chat | E-Commerce | File Sharing |

The ‘Big Picture’ of Internet

Browser Software

A-Z Browser List

All about browsers

Browser Software - Software Library

Plug-ins

Media Player

DirectX
The power of multimedia in Windows, DirectX gives you the best possible experience with graphics, sound, music, and 3-D animation.

Media Players - Software Library

PDF

PDF Reader & Creater

Privacy

PrivacyFoundation.org
FAQ: Web bugs

PrivacyFoundation.org
A glossary of digital privacy terms

PrivacyFoundation.org
Digtal Dragnet: The Debate Over Piracy vs. Privacy

Scam

Advocacy-net
Directory of websites related to the topic of internet scam

Internet Fraud Watch

FlimFlam
Exposing fraud, confidence games, scams, rip-offs, swindles, rackets, shell games, deceptions and flimflam

Scambusters

ScamWatch

Traceroute / Ping

fifi.org ping

fifi.org Traceroute
Trace from URL or IP address

Imagined Cities
Trace from URL or IP address

Public Traceroute from BELNET

Stanford.edu
Interest in Traceping

Stanford.edu
Traceroute from www.slac.stanford.edu to your web browser

The Traceping Procedure

Traceroute Listing

Traceroute.org
Traceroute by country, Looking Glass, Route Servers, BGP Info and traceroute links

What is Ping ?

What is Traceroute and how it works
Traces a packet from your computer to an Internet host, showing how many hops the packet requires to reach the host and how long each hop takes.