Links about the Internet

As We May Think http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
Seminal 1945 article by Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the WWII Office of Scientific Research and Development (Atlantic Monthly, July 1945).
The Programmer's File Format Collection http://www.wotsit.org/
FILEext - The File Extension Source http://filext.com/
Every file format in the world http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
Common Internet File Formats http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html
File-Extensions.org http://www.file-extensions.org/
Some guides to all those alphabet-soup file extensions used on PCs and the Internet.
Citation Guide for Internet Sources http://www.h-net.org/~africa/citation.html
Formats for citations of Internet sources, as in bibliographies.
The List (Internet Service Providers) http://www.thelist.com/
Unicode Home Page http://www.unicode.org/
A system to allow computers and networks to correctly handle all human languages.
Internet2 http://www.internet2.edu/ Wikipedia
A consortium of 200+ US universities plus corporate and government partners, running a high-performance network. Canada and Europe have similar networks.

Free speech online

Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition http://www.ciec.org/
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility http://cpsr.org/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/
Electronic Privacy Information Center http://epic.org/
Digital Future Coalition http://www.dfc.org/
FidoNet http://www.fidonet.org/ Wikipedia
A low-budget global network using modems and ordinary phone connections to pass electronic mail and discussion groups. Hard to censor or suppress. FidoNet participation in general has declined dramatically since the mid 1990s, but it's still quite popular in Russia and former USSR states.
Anonymity, Privacy and Security http://www.iusmentis.com/technology/remailers/
Information on anon servers, remailers, PGP, steganography, organizations.
Yahoo: Computers and Internet: Security and Encryption: Anonymous Mailers

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