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The following selection does not claim to present an exhaustive listing, but rather picks some of the most interesting provider of independent content.
Independent Content Provider
| URL
| Classification of Content
| Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
| http://www.apc.org
| Social issues, environment, economy, Africa, women
| ZaMir.net
| http://www.zamir.net
| Anti-war, human rights (Yugoslavia)
| Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
| http://www.igc.org
| Peace, economy, human rights, democracy, environment, women, anti-racism
| FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
| http://www.fair.org
| Media
| ZNet
| http://www.zmag.org
| Selection: culture, community/race/religion/ethnicity, ecology, economics/class, gender/kinship/sexuality, government/polity, international relations
| B2-92
| http://www.freeb92.net
| Politics
| FREEnet (The Network for Research, Education and Engineering)
| http://www.free.net
| Research/academic/education
| c2o (Community Communications Online)
| http://www.c20.org
| Environment, social issues, human rights
| Antenna
| http://antenna.apc.org
| Development co-operation/emergency aid, environment, ecology, energy, media, art, culture
| PERDCA (The Project for Economic Reform and Development in Central Asia)
| http://www.silk.org
| Telecommunications, education, medicine
| Comlink
| http://www.comlink.org
| Peace, ecology, social issues, human rights
| Adbusters
| http://www.adbusters.org
| Culture, art
| RTMark
| http://www.rtmark.com
| Culture, art
| Interdoc
| http://www.oneworld.org/interdoc/
| Labor, human rights, development, environment, peace
| GreenNet
| http://www.gn.apc.org
| Environment, peace, human rights, development
| UN (United Nations)
| http://www.un.org
| Peace, economy, social issues, development, justice, human rights, international law, humanitarian assistance and various specialized agencies
| Flipside
| http://www.flipside.org
| Economic, political, social, environmental
| Human Rights Watch
| http://www.hrw.org
| Human rights
| nettime
| http://www.nettime.org
| Culture
| FoeBud e.V. (Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs e.V.)
| http://www.foebud.org
| Research, politics, culture, arts, future/technology
| Corporate Watch
| http://www.corpwatch.org
| Social issues, politics, economy, environment
| Overcoming Consumerism
| http://www.hooked.net/users/verdant/index.htm
| Social issues, economy, environment
| NewsWatch
| http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/jsexton/NewsWatch/
| Media
| IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange)
| http://www.ifex.org
| Media, human rights
| FAS (Federation of American Scientists)
| http://www.fas.org
| Science, technology, public policy
| UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
| http://www.unesco.org
| Education, science, culture, communication
| Umwelt
| http://www.umwelt.org
| Environment
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World Wide Web (WWW)
Probably the most significant Internet service, the World Wide Web is not the essence of the Internet, but a subset of it. It is constituted by documents that are linked together in a way you can switch from one document to another by simply clicking on the link connecting these documents. This is made possible by the Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), the authoring language used in creating World Wide Web-based documents. These so-called hypertexts can combine text documents, graphics, videos, sounds, and  Java applets, so making multimedia content possible.
Especially on the World Wide Web, documents are often retrieved by entering keywords into so-called search engines, sets of programs that fetch documents from as many servers as possible and index the stored information. (For regularly updated lists of the 100 most popular words that people are entering into search engines, click  here). No search engine can retrieve all information on the whole World Wide Web; every search engine covers just a small part of it.
Among other things that is the reason why the World Wide Web is not simply a very huge database, as is sometimes said, because it lacks consistency. There is virtually almost infinite storage capacity on the Internet, that is true, a capacity, which might become an almost everlasting too, a prospect, which is sometimes consoling, but threatening too.
According to the Internet domain survey of the Internet Software Consortium the number of Internet host computers is growing rapidly. In October 1969 the first two computers were connected; this number grows to 376.000 in January 1991 and 72,398.092 in January 2000.
World Wide Web History Project, http://www.webhistory.org/home.html
 http://www.searchwords.com/
http://www.islandnet.com/deathnet/
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/199...
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