the Internet

This section is about the Internet as a place where people (users) connect and interact with each other. For technical information about the internet, see Computing.

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Articles

• Webcomics
• video sharing

Brainstorming

Places where new ideas are collected and discussed

• AllYourIdeas wiki: post original practical ideas
• SinceSlicedBread.com: "What's your common sense idea?"

Fonts

• lettertype.startpagina.nl (instructions are in Dutch)

History

• Internet Archive

Images

• Image Sharing
  • deviantART: original artwork
  • flickr: photos
• Cute Animal Pictures
  • Cute Overload: "we scour the Web for only the finest in Cute Imagery"
  • Kittenwar: ratemykitten meets the card game War
  • Rate My Kitten: kittens, kittens, and more kittens
  • stuffonmycat.com: cats, with stuff on them

Maps

Maps of the internet

• The Opte Project: graphical maps of all Class C networks on the Internet

Music

• free, legal downloads
  • Magnatune: "The open music record label"
  • Mr. Furious Records: free downloads of complete songs
• legal and portable but not free:
  • emusic: annoying because you can't see what music they have until you sign up, although there is a free trial period
    • 2006-05-22 Making money selling music without DRM: the rise of eMusic

Radio

Radio stations listenable over the net (without special software or a subscription)

• Egg Radio
• Radio Hidebound: "151 proof college radio aged 20 years" (but they do play stuff younger than 20)

Rights

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Open Rights Group

Search Engines

• The main ones
  • Google
  • Yahoo!
• new/experimental
  • Factbites
  • Qwika: wiki search