Good places to start surfing the web

• The web's top sites as rated by Pointcom
• Web site directories
  • Yahoo is commonly agreed to be a great place to start when searching the web for almost anything.
  • Yell is UK-based and has the electronic Yellow Pages
  • GOD is another UK one
  • Internet Health Care Directory
• Archives
  • The Cathouse archives have some fun stuff
  • SimTel mirror at Imperial College for shareware and freeware
• Search engines
  • Webcrawler - I've been able to find stuff using this search engine.
  • Info Seek
  • Alta Vista
  • Lycos
  • C|NET's search engine collection: 250 of them!
• Worldwide directory of email addresses
• Papers
  • Guardian OnLine may or may not be listing some interesting URLs this week. However, you must register (free though).
  • The Times and The Sunday Times
  • Links to 100s of newspapers
  • Links to magazines
• Webzines
  • Word - all aspects of modern culture
  • HotWired - cyber society
  • The Salon - books, arts, ideas
  • Mr Showbiz - entertainment: news, reviews
  • Feed - technoculture
  • Slate - Microsoft's own [from mid June]
• Events listings
  Events On Line