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6th March 2000

World Wide Arts Resources

“Offers the definitive interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on the Internet. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts ranging from dance to opera, classified ads, resume postings and more…”

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6th March 2000

Time resources

A bunch of links related to time, chronology, astronomy…

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6th March 2000

heavy.com

Wow.

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6th March 2000

@BRINT.com

“The premier business and technology portal and global community network for e-business information, technology and knowledge management.” Here’s the @BRINT Design section.

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6th March 2000

Yahoo!’s History and Infrastructure

“Yahoo! is one of the oldest websites, dating back before the 1993 act of Congress that legalized commercial use of the federally funded Internet. Back then, Yahoo! was just the personal bookmarks of a couple of Stanford students — Jerry Yang and David Filo. After it became legal to make money off of the Internet, the venture capitalist behind Netscape found them and introduced them to the concept of becoming obscenely wealthy, and the rest is history.”

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6th March 2000

TV News Archive

“The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, and the Persian Gulf war.”

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6th March 2000

TV News Archive

“The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, and the Persian Gulf war.”

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6th March 2000

More Than Screen Deep

“Toward every-citizen interfaces to the nation’s information infrastructure: Designing any sort of computer-mediated device for ordinary people for effective and pleasant everyday use has proven to be surprisingly difficult.”

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6th March 2000

@BRINT.com

“The premier business and technology portal and global community network for e-business information, technology and knowledge management.” Here’s the @BRINT Design section.

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6th March 2000

More Than Screen Deep

“Toward every-citizen interfaces to the nation’s information infrastructure: Designing any sort of computer-mediated device for ordinary people for effective and pleasant everyday use has proven to be surprisingly difficult.”

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