Organizations

I have added appropriate acronyms in parentheses next to some links as an aid for people with incremental search facilities in their browsers. In general the links themselves contain the full name of the organization or topic.

Non-Profit Organizations

Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Project GNU)
- Unofficial archive of GNU Project information
  Maintained by Trent A. Fisher.
  - The GNU Hurd
Journal of AI Research (JAIR)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Also available via ftp .
League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
NetBSD Project
PING Software Group
LGPL-ed Unix/C software libraries including high level interfaces to Berkeley sockets, SYSV IPC, routines for filesystem traversal, process execution, pseudoterminals, etc.
Samizdat Press
Free textbooks.
Universal Life Church (ULC)
Web Design Group (WDG)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3)
- HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- HTML Style Sheets
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
  This is RFC 1738.
- Relative Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
  This is RFC 1808.
X Consortium
XFree86

Academic Organizations

The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ
- Bibliographic Database
University of California at Berkeley (UCB)
- Chemistry Department
Cornell University
- Bibliographic Database
LBJ High School
- Science Academy
- 1989 Alumni
Indiana State University
- Bibliographic Database
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI)
- Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS)
  - WebDNS namespace editor for AI/LCS
    This can only be used from machines already registered in the namespace.
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Media Laboratory
- NE43 Memory Project
  This is a collaborative Web site for building a history of life at AI and LCS over the last three decades.
- Project MAC (Switzerland)
  - Visit the Switzerland Coke Machine
    Find out what drinks are in stock, people's drinking habits, etc.
- Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
  - Why you should not use Netscape HTML extensions
Related Pages:
- Campus Building Floor Plans (must be on MIT host to access)
  Office of Facilities Management Systems Space Accounting
- David LaMacchia Defense Fund (DLDF)
- Guide to Lock Picking
- Random Hall's Laundry Room
  Find out which laundry machines are in use!
- Student Hacks Gallery
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
LBJ High School Science Academy
University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
- Department of Computer Science
  - Flux Operating System Project
    Information about Mach4 and the Lites single server can be found here, in addition to other research projects.

Commercial Organizations

Addison-Wesley Publishers
Book Stacks Unlimited
Computational Logic, Inc. (CLI)
The Computer Network (c|net)
- Shareware
Cyclic Software
Federal Express (FedEx)
- Track a Package
Freeware Central
Hair Club for Men
I Spy Sy Sperling!
Hearst New Media
Internet Access Cincinatti (IAC)
Netscape Communications Corporation
- Client Side State: HTTP Cookies
Prudential HealthCare
Southwestern Airlines
Thomas Register
The Thomas Register is a listing of nearly all businesses in the US, indexed by type of product or service. They want you to set up a password with them in advance but (as of 1996-01-13) searching is free. It appears that registration is only required for using the search function; once you know the url of other pages, you can simply retrieve them.
United Parcel Service (UPS)
- Track a UPS Package

US Government Organizations

This includes both civilian and military agencies.

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
ARPA is the agency which, among other projects, sponsored the development of what eventually became the Internet. Periodically (every other year or so) this agency gratuitously changes its name to and from DARPA.
Army
- Army Center of Military History
  Information on past wars and army history in general.
- Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
  Allow scientist from government, academia, and industry to discover information about current Army research.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The CIA supports the President, the National Security Council, and all who make and execute US national security policy.
Congressional Records and Legislation (THOMAS)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
This is a combat support agency and the senior military intelligence component of the US intelligence community.
Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
The networking component of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Provides access to and transfer of scientific and technical information for DoD personnel, DoD contractors and other US government agencies.
Department of Commerce (DOC)
Geological Survey (USGS)
- Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs
- Government Information Locator Service Proposal
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- A Gene Map of the Human Genome
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy
Patent and Tradmark Office (PTO)
The Pentagon
Postal Service (USPS)
- Look up 9-digit ZIP codes
White House

Miscellaneous Organizations

Bozo Software Foundation (BSF)
Frobtronic Technologies, Inc. (FrobTech)
Kabuki West