The Land:

What's new and what's notorious
What's new in WWWWorld - the most representative list.
Updated twice a week (they'll have to start daily service soon, I guess :-).
BestOfTheWeb contest - yearly (when?).
Hot Sites seen from Amdhal.

Directories and...
The Global Network Navigator, from O'Reilly and Associates, and its mirror sites:
Tu Chemnitz, Universitaetsrechenzentrum (Germany)
Sunsite UK (United Kingdom)
Site by Andrei (Russia)
EUnet (Germany)
Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Digital (California, U.S.)
Planet Earth Homepage
Yahoo - a guide to WWW,
and search through it.
Special Internet Connections - Yanoff
Internet Resource MetaIndex

...search engines.
WebCrawler
Lycos
Search that ancient GopherSpace - Veronica:
Veronica at UNR.edu
and at University of Koeln

Internet Reader:
EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet: stored in Germany
and at EFF itself.
netguide.eff - some outdated link?
The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold: Table of Contents ( - and is there the book itself?)
"The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net" - an anthology of essays on the net - its origins, denizens and effects, and its unformatted version.
Net.Legends
Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap
InterNet is better than... (we knew it, yeah?)

Two of the three whales (the third along with them):
InterNIC
Directory and Database Services
Internet: WWW for itself...serious.
IETF Home Page
Anonymous message server information.
PGP - alt.security.pgp FAQ
Cryptography Export Control Archives
Finite Systems Consulting - browsers review and more

...and not that serious.
T(1)w(2)o random lynks, the latter through Yahoo.
Useless WWW Pages
Interesting devices connected to the Net,
- Talk to my Cat performance, for instance.

Personalia
Barlow Home(stead)Page
- remember GreatfulDead?
Howard Rheingold's Books, Columns, Articles

People2People
TPC.INT Fax Service
(originated by the guy who invented IRC, if I got it right).
Fax number validation.
Sending fax.
Fax FAQ.

Wired and more...
HotWired,
and its text only entrance.
Some outdated contest link can still be of use.
Interactive Age Daily,
and the whole directory of TechWeb publications.
GNN I-Media Center - mirrored at Elvis. Look for other
mirrors at GNN reference point.
HyperMedia Zines list.

NetNews
Mercury: News to Gopher,
comp hierarcy - sample.
LANL
Usenet-LYNX-telnet
The ClariNet e.News

Russia & Economy
RELIS - Relcom Information System overview - commercial
(and usually charged for) info.
Institute for Commercial Engineering
Rinaco Plus - Agroskin

Russia
Relcom and Internet at Univ. of Maryland
Russian Web's servers List at Elvis+.
Elvis+ WWW-server.
Window-to-Russia project at KIAE,
particulary WtR Arts, Culture, History and Human Sciences Page
Russian FreeNet Server
The St. Petersburg Press homepage.
Homepage for #russian IRC channel
SimTel 3W server
Computer World/Moscow
Russian and East European Studies page

Decent News
Radio Liberty news digest - daily. But lag?
The St. Petersburg Press homepage.
The Electronic Telegraph
Nando News
- NandoNet

Economic info:
FinWEB
Thomas Ho's favorite Electronic Commerce WWW resources
Interesting Business Sites on the Web
James Garven's Commerce on the InterNet page

CommerceNet and IndustryNet
and Flash News inside it.

Security APL Quote Server
Market Watch

Tokyo Univ. Economic refernce page

Programming, OO.
Object Oriented what?
Designing and Building Parallel Programs

Job Junction:
Online Career Center and Career Mosaic.
JobServe - The Job Server, UK.

Literature (Internet guides excluded) and bookstores...
Dictionaries
Webster
Roget
English-Eesti
Library Catalogs
Library Of Congress Catalog itself
Catalogs Listed by Location
United States in particular.
Electric Bookstore
Your Internet Bookstore
Britannica Online

Places and cities -
Representative GeoInfo - places as they are.
Paperless guide to NYC
Southern California Traffic Report

WORDNET, Inc. - translations
(wordnet@wordnet.com)
Yet another translation service

It was W-W-W-warm? - it 'll be hot soon...
Sex sites