Exploring the Internet: A Cyberspace Odyssey Baumgarten, Paulsen, Barksdale, Rutter, Densley, Stephens

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Journeys on the Web

Journey 1 / Journey 2 / Journey 3 / Journey 4 / Journey 5 / Journey 6 /
Journey 7 / Journey 8 / Journey 9 / Journey 10 / Journey 11 / Journey 12 /
Journey 13 / Journey 14 / Journey 15 / Journey 16 /

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Journey 1 - There's no place like a Home Page

Visit other home pages as you surf the Web. Click the hypertext links below to visit a page.

Disney Home Page
The White House
The NASA Homepage

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Journey 2 - Goodbye and "pharoah" well

The Great Temple of Abu Simbel

Other Egypt-related sites:

VRML Reconstruction of the Egyptian tomb of Menna
Discovery Channel: Land of the Pyramids
Hieroglyphics Writer
Pyramid Crossword Puzzle
Ancient Egypt Homepage
The University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

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Journey 3 - California dreamin'

In this journey you learn to open locations.  If you are having problems, use the hypertext links below:

Ocean Surfer
Disneyland
SeaWorld®
Universal Studios™

Some additional Southern California sites:

The Southern California Earthquake Center @ UCLA
The Southern California Scenic Railway Association

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Journey 4 - State of the art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
WebMuseum, Paris (Famous Paintings Exhibit)

Other art-related sites:

The University of Memphis, Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
WebMuseum, Paris
ViewZone's 3-D Gallery
Amsterdam's Braggiotti Gallery featuring contemporary glass art
History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania

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Journey 5 - Type and go seek

InfoSeek®

Other Internet search engines:

WebCrawler™
Excite™
Magellan™
Lycos™

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Journey 6 - New horizons

Java™ sites to visit:

Earthweb's Gamelan:  The Java Directory
The Impressionist, Painting with Java

Shockwave™ sites to visit:

Macromedia®'s Shockwave Gallery

RealAudio™ sites to visit:

Timecase:  The RealAudio Guide

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Journey 7 - "Houston, we have a problem"

Marshall Space Flight Center

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Journey 8 -- Back at you

Web sites with auto-responders: Try them out!!

President of the United States
Nye Labs

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Journey 9 -- Send it off in a letter to yourself

Additional Web sites to practice e-mail:

KidsConnect: AskKC
HP Telementor Program
Space Team Online

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Journey 10 -- Sending a postcard

Warner Bros.™ Web Cards

Additional Web sites sending postcards:

Awesome Cyber Cards
Cardcentral.net

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Journey 11 -- Looking for Jumbo

Jumbo Shareware

Additional shareware sites of interest:

Shareware.com
Pass The Shareware

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Journey 12 -- Going to the land down under

Trishan's Page of OZ

Additional on-line "Zines" of the Web:

Cyberteens
Midlink Magazine
react
KidzMagazine™
World Magazine Online
Time® for Kids
Sports Illustrated® for Kids

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Journey 13 -- Graphics for you

PixelPlace.com

Additional Web sites with cool web graphics:

GIF Animation Station
InfoTech Arcade: Web Graphics Resources

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Journey 14 -- Through the looking glass

Yahoo!™ Home page

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Journey 15 -- Your first Web page

Check out this kid-created Web page:

Hotlist:  Kids Did This!

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Journey 16 -- A Home Page to call your own

Links for learning HTML:

A Beginner's Guide to HTML
HTML & WWW Resources
Learning HTML
HTML Tutorial

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