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Old 2002 Miscellaneous Links

A. Williamsport, Pennsylvania Links

I. Locator Links

B. Map Drawing Sites
C. Phones-Reverse Number Search
D. Phones-Yellow & White Pages
E. Search Engines
F. Other -- High School Alumni Locators
 
II. Other-Links
G. Financial & Consumer
I. Travel Links
J. Other Misc. Links

Computer links are on the Track2 MacNet

Dance links are on the Track2 DanceNet

Railroad links are on the Track2 RailNet

 

Bandwidth Speed Test -- The links to these sites keep changing. Use google.com, and search for the phrase "bandwidth speed test".

Bandwidth Test at CNET -- http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth

A. Williamsport, Pennsylvania Links

Williamsport/Lycoming County Chamber of Commerce -- Williamsport.org

Lycoming County Visitors Bureau

Susquehanna Valley Community Net -- http://www.lycoming.org -- courtesy of The Williamsport Area Computer Club -- links to many Lycoming County Pa area businesses and organizations.

(Note that their complete listing shows you all the entries.)

Williamsport On-Line -- Williamsport-pa.com

Williamsport.com -- Williamsport.com

Williamsport Sun-Gazette Newspaper -- SunGazette.com

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I. Locator Links

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B. Map Drawing Sites

Mapblast! -- http://www.mapblast.com/yt.hm?FAM=mapblast&SEC=start --

MapQuest! -- http://www.mapquest.com/

Microsoft Expedia Maps -- http://maps.expedia.com/

C. Phones-Reverse Number Search

Lets you discover who belongs to a phone number

ReversePhoneDirectory.com

AT&T Anywho Info -- http://www.anywho.com/rl.html

AT&T 555-1212.com -- http://www.555-1212.com/rev.jsp

infoUSA -- www.infousa.com

D. Phones-Yellow & White Pages

Bell Atlantic White Pages (individuals) -- http://wp.bigyellow.com/info.bela/index_ppl.htm

Bell Atlantic Yellow Pgs (businesses) -- http://www.bigyellow.com/search.html

Excite People Finder -- http://www.excite.com/reference/people_finder -- for finding individuals; this uses phone company databases, can also draw maps.

Infospace.com --

Lycos WhoWhere? People Finder -- www.whowhere.lycos.com/Phone

Switchboard.com Find A Person -- www.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?LNK=3:1&MEM=1

U S WEST White Pages -- http://wp.uswestdex.com/cgi/search.fcg?form=ResWhite&from=

U S WEST Yellow Pages -- http://yp.uswest.com

E. Search Engines

  1. Most of these are "search the search engines"

Ask Jeeves -- www.ask.com -- can accept natural language queries

Dogpile -- www.dogpile.com -- Super Search Engine, calls about 10 other search engines, including Excite, Yahoo, etc.

GoTo -- http://goto.com --

Google -- www.google.com --

hotbot -- www.hotbot.com --

Metacrawler -- www.metacrawler.com --

Northern Light -- www.northernlight.com

Profusion -- www.profusion.com --

Teoma -- http://www.teoma.com

Webcrawler -- www.webcrawler.com -- search voyeur, you can see what other people are searching for

F. Other-High School Alumni Locators

Find people by selecting State, then City, School, and Year.

High School Alumni Locator -- http://www.highschoolalumni.com --

  • To view classmates' names: You can view names only without registering.
  • To view email addresses & cities: You have to register (free).
  • This appears at first glance to be the better site of the two because you can get useful information without paying, even though in my case, it had less names.
  • On 9/00, I found 2 of my classmates on this site.

Classmates.Com -- http://www.classmates.com --

  • To view classmates' names: You have to register (free).
  • To view email addresses & cities: Not available.
    • To contact anybody, you have to send the email through their web page, by upgrading to a $29.50/year paid membership.
    • On 9/00, I found 9 of my classmates names on this site.

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II. Other Links

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G. Financial & Consumer

Bankrate.com -- Credit Cards, mortgages

Cardweb.com -- Credit card info

Identify Theft Resource Center -- http://idtheftcenter.org

Medical

Dr. Koop -- www.drkoop.com

Medscape -- www.medscape.com

Abelltolls -- www.abelltolls.com/dayrate.htm

Cognigen -- www.cognigen.com

Decide -- www.decide.com

Frontier- 8 cents/min, no minimum, some service charges; instate can be considerably higher:
www.frontiercorp.com/websaver

SaveOnPhone -- www.saveonphone.com

Telecommunications Research & Action Center -- www.trac.org

I. Travel Links

CheapTickets.com

The TRIP -- http://www.itn.net/cgi/get?itn/pl/thetrip/air_round:*itn/ord=NEWREC,itn/pl/thetrip -- - one way and round trip airline flights

Preview Travel -- http://www1.previewtravel.com/Home/ --

Travelocity.com- -- http://travelocity.com/ -- airline tickets, hotel accommodations and car reservations online

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Amtrak -- http://www.amtrak.com -- clumsy-you have to jump through the username & password hoops to get any imformation

Greyhound Bus -- http://www.greyhound.com/ -- (The Greyhound experience . . . in Dec 98 I took the bus from Pennsylvania to Florida. It felt like a transit experience from a third world country)

J. Other Miscellaneous Links

Executive Paywatch --www.paywatch.org

  • Runaway CEO pay?? Feel like your employer is 'sucking you dry' with unpaid weekends & evening overtime work, so that "Chain Saw Al" and the other 3-piece suits at the top can take their multimillion dollar salaries?
  • According to Executive Paywatch, "The ratio of CEO-to-worker pay has increased from 44-to-1 in 1965 to 326-to-1 today".
 

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