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The 1994 Hot List: thirty websites, reviewed and pressed to plastic

NautilusCD was a magazine that came on a CD-ROM instead of paper, posted to subscribers every month through the early 1990s. Buried in the August 1994 disc, in a folder called \COMPWARE\INTERNET, is a file named AUGWIN.HTM — an HTML document written when almost nobody had seen one.

It is a Hot List: the staff's favourite places on the Internet that month, each with a review they wrote themselves. The September, October and November discs carry the next instalments. Together they are thirty dated web reviews from a moment when the entire World Wide Web was a few thousand servers — and unlike a book, a monthly magazine tells you the month.

The list opens with an apology for the speed of things, and closes with advice that dates it more precisely than any timestamp:

A companion file, STARTING.DOC, explains what the web actually is for readers who had not met it: “One of the easiest ways to access the Internet is through graphic front ends like Mosaic… These hypertext documents look like ASCII text files until your Mosaic front end translates them.”

August 1994 — Volume 4-8

Nine picks. The second is the one to read twice: Wired's site is described as “the future home of HotWired… HotWired will launch in mid-September” — written before HotWired, generally counted among the first commercial web magazines, existed at all. And microsoft.com is here in August 1994 offering “details about Windows, MS-DOS, and ‘Chicago’” — the codename for Windows 95.

Site	Address	The 1994 review
CommerceNet	http://www.commerce.net	An open, Internet-based infrastructure for electronic commerce. Created and developed by a coalition of Silicon Valley organizations.
Wired Magazine	http://www.wired.com	Wired Ventures' online presence, the future home of HotWired, new thinking for a new medium. HotWired will launch in mid-September. Be sure to check out WIRED's Trip to Microsoft. also linked: http://wired.com/Hotwired/microsoft/microsoft.html
EXPO Restaurant Le Cordon Bleu	http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/restaurant/restaurant.html	You must be hungry after visiting all the exhibits on the digital terrain, but you can't rest here! This restaurant is an exhibit of L'Art Culinaire . The menus presented here are from the world- famous cooking school in Paris: Le Cordon Bleu . Many of the recipes given here are taught at Le Cordon Bleu by a team of master chefs from France's various Michelin-star restaurants.
Microsoft Corporation	http://www.microsoft.com	This site provides public information about Microsoft and its products. It includes anonymous FTP access to KnowledgeBase articles, sample code, patches and other support-related products. Information on Windows, MS-DOS, and "Chicago", details about the Windows Sockets standard, Microsoft's new 32-bit TCP/IP VxD stack for Windows for Workgroups and employment opportunities at Microsoft.
LEGO Information	http://legowww.itek.norut.no	Information on individual LEGO sets (including part lists,) pictures of the 1994 product line, a history of LEGO bricks and details for joining the LEGONET Club are all at this site.
The NATO Gopher	gopher://gopher.nato.int/	Visit the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's Gopher to read fact sheets, biographies, speeches and press releases. Contact points, fellowship programs and listings of seminars and workshops are also available.
UWI Web’s Edge	http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi.html	Try to think of The Web's Edge as a link to strange and wonderful things found inside and out of the computer world. Small time distributors of information, music, zines, and art are found on this site, as well as all sorts of propaganda and information of various usefulness.
METAVERSE	http://metaverse.com	Adam Curry, formerly of MTV, runs this site. Its contents change quickly in an effort to keep up with the entertainment industry. A sample of the material includes the Woodstock ‘94 lineup, music reviews, Adam’s quotes of the day and a place for unsigned bands to present their work on the Internet.
The Electronic Newsstand	http://enews.com	Founded in July 1993 it provides the Internet community with easy access to a wide range of interesting information furnished by the world's leading publishers. Like traditional newsstands, The Electronic Newsstand is a place where you can browse -- for free -- through many publications and have your interest stimulated by a variety of subjects. The Newsstand provides a window on the world of computers, technology, science, business, foreign affairs, the arts, travel, medicine, nutrition, sports, politics, literature and many, many other areas of interest.

September 1994 — Volume 4-9

Six picks, and a note that the magazine hoped to have “a NautilusCD World Wide Web site up and running before the end of the year”. The Library of Congress entry describes a web presence that is “in its infancy”.

Site	Address	The 1994 review
Library of Congress	http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html	The Library of Congress is beginning to use World Wide Web (WWW) to present information about and materials from its collections over the Internet. This project is in its infancy and will be developing over the next year. Some of the current Library of Congress WWW offerings include: prints and photographs, collections from the American Memory Project, the African-American Culture and History online exhibit, a Country Study from the Federal Research Division, and access to LC MARVEL (the Library of Congress Information System). In addition, the Library is developing a Global Electronic Library, which links to WWW meta indexes and search tools.
QuoteCom	http://www.quote.com	QuoteCom is a service dedicated to providing financial market data to Internet users. Users who have registered with QuoteCom may retrieve stock quotes and much more. Some services are restricted by password, and some are available to all. Some of QuoteCom's services are free of charge, but many of the best ones are not. Demonstration versions of the WWW server are available for these services: Current quotes, Bar charts on historical data, S& P's Stock Guide database, S& P's MarketScope Alerts, Hoover company profiles, and Historical data. You can also receive BusinessWire press releases as soon as they are released!
FOX Broadcasting	http://www.clark.net/pub/aaron/my^~html/fox.html	Aaron Greenhouse at Brandeis University maintains this WWW site and he says "My favorite network is FOX. Since it began it has had some of the most creative programming on television." On this site you’ll find links to sites that have material related to FOX programs. There is also a list of FOX programs with a brief description of each program.
NASA Information Services	http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html	The NASA Web server includes: Hot Topics, NASA news and subjects of public interest, NASA Strategic Plan, Strategies, Policies, Public Affairs, NASA Online Educational Resources, NASA Information Sources by Subject, direct graphical access to NASA Centers, NASA Personnel Lookup [X.500] (Ames), access to other Space Agencies and more.
InterNIC Directory and Database Services Home Page	http://ds.internic.net/	The InterNIC Directory and Database Services are provided by AT& T. These services are partially supported through a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The InterNIC project comprises three distinct services run by separate organizations. General Atomics provides INFORMATION SERVICES. AT& T provides DIRECTORY & DATABASE SERVICES and Network Solutions, Inc. provides REGISTRATION SERVICES.
Peninsula Restaurants Guide	http://gsb.stanford.edu/goodlife/home.html	This is an on-line guide to the restaurants in the South Bay Area of the San Francisco Peninsula, covering cities from South San Francisco to San Jose. This service is brought to you as part of a research project being conducted by three MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in conjunction with the publisher of The Guide to the Good Life . The reviews contained in this WWW server are excerpted from The Peninsula and San Jose Restaurant Guide and Guide to the Good Life . This service allows you to search for restaurant reviews taken from The Guide to the Good Life in a number of ways. By Cuisine (the type of food served,) Geography (the area in which you wish to dine) and Hot Spots (restaurants in popular downtown areas.)

October 1994 — Volume 4-10

Eight picks, and the month commerce arrives. PizzaNet — Pizza Hut's ordering service, widely remembered as the first food you could buy over the web — sits beside NetMarket, an “Internet shopping stop” whose entry cites a New York Times piece from 12 August. The US House of Representatives is here too, as a Gopher.

Site	Address	The 1994 review
National Weather Service Office, Tallahassee	http://thunder.met.fsu.edu:80/nws/public_html/	This is the WWW site for the National Weather Service Office, Tallahassee . The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Tallahassee issues weather forecasts for all of the Florida Big Bend and has severe weather warning responsibility for the Big Bend area of North Florida and parts of extreme Southwest Georgia. We are located in the NWS' Southern Region.
NetMarket	http://www.netmarket.com/	Welcome to NetMarket , an Internet shopping stop. NetMarket currently offers Cds from Noteworthy Music , flower delivery from 800-THE- ROSE , with 300,000 discounted books coming very soon, and many other high-quality, low-priced services arriving in the near future! Take a look at Peter Lewis's article on The NetMarket Company in the August 12th New York Times
FOR SALE BY OWNER MAGAZINE	http://www.human.com/mkt/fsbo/fsbo.html	provides a professional and effective way to sell your own home! By giving your home maximum exposure you have an edge in selling your home in the competitive real-estate market. FOR SALE BY OWNER MAGAZINE makes you visible to millions of potential buyers. It is distributed throughout Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and Monterey Counties in hard copy form, and is presented to "Internet" via www and anonymous FTP.
InterText Magazine	http://www.etext.org/Zines/InterText/intertext.html	is an electronically-distributed magazine of fiction read by thousands of people on six continents. InterText has been publishing since March of 1991. A new issue is released every two months. The latest and back issues are available on their WWW site.
Mississippi State University	http://www.msstate.edu	Ranging from General Information about Mississippi State University to Web Servers in the State of Mississippi to the Center for Air Sea Technology and even the Cardiff Movie Database, a database of thousands of movies, actors and actresses this Web site is one of the most comprehensive you’re likely to find anywhere.
ClariNews	http://www.clarinet.com	is an electronic newspaper: professional news and information delivered to your computer in the Usenet news format. You get live news (including technology-related wire stories), timely computer industry news, syndicated columns and features, financial information, stock quotes and more. ClariNews includes Techwire, Business News, Newsbytes and S yndicated Features such as Miss Manners and Dilbert .
The U.S. House of Representatives' Gopher service	gopher://gopher.house.gov	provides access to information about Members and Committees of the House and to other U.S. government information resources. This Gopher serves staff of the U.S. House of Representatives and constituents throughout the world. Maintaining the menus on this Gopher server is coordinated by the House Administration Committee Internet Working Group in cooperation with service units and divisions throughout the House of Representatives.
The PizzaNet Service	http://www.pizzahut.com	Please note that PizzaNet is currently in a pilot stage. Not all areas are available for service through PizzaNet. If your area is not currently serviced, and you would like that changed, please contact webmaster@PizzaHut.COM. The PizzaNet Service was conceived by Pizza Hut Inc., and developed in cooperation with SCO Professional Services and is located at Pizza Hut World Headquarters in Wichita, Kansas.

November 1994 — Volume 4-11

Seven picks, heavy on the counterculture that built the early web: The WELL, the Internet Underground Music Archive, and Penn and Teller. CareerMosaic is introduced as “the first server on the Web dedicated exclusively to careers”.

Site	Address	The 1994 review
Studio X	http://www.nets.com	is an experimental media company located in Santa Fe, New Mexico offering Internet connectivity for the Santa Fe / Los Alamos, New Mexico area and multimedia space for rent on the World Wide Web.
The WELL Web Project,	http://www.well.com	created by the users, friends and staff of The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), like most things on The WELL, is a collaborative and evolving experiment. At this site you can learn about and join The WELL, get a summary of Internet Multimedia Events, read about Electronic Art, Music & Literature and much more.
The Internet Underground Music Archive	http://www.iuma.com	lets you read about and visit record label sites such as TeenBeat, Bedazzled, DGC, Quagmire and Warner Bros.
Penn and Teller’s WWW site	http://www.portal.com/~gambler/PennandTeller/penn-n-teller.html	Visit Penn and Teller’s WWW site to read a Penn and Teller bibliography. Learn how to Reveal the chosen card. Read the transcript of Penn’s chat with fans on Delphi. Catch up on tour dates and even view the Wired cover featuring Penn.
COMDEX/Fall `94 Home Page	http://www.comdex.com:8000/	Planning to attend COMDEX? The COMDEX/Fall `94 Home Page will keep you up to date with What's New, lists of exhibitors, information on travel and accommodations and even registration details.
CareerMosaic	http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/	is the first server on the Web dedicated exclusively to careers, employer and human resources information. This is your guide to:the hot companies, their products and visions, new products and technologies, corporate culture and philosophy, benefits and special employee programs sites and local lifestyles across the globe
HyperGlot	http://www.hyperglot.com/hyperglot.html	has been supplying high quality, cutting-edge language learning software to the public, government, and educational institutions worldwide since 1988. Their line includes complete courses, tense tutors, vocabulary builders and pronunciation tutors. Here you’ll find an interactive catalog of products, product demos, customer service FAQs, and general cool stuff about HyperGlot, who they are, how they got where they are and why they started this odyssey.

June 1994: no Hot List, two directories instead

The June disc (Volume 4-6) is the one the August issue points back to — “You'll find more information about the Internet in NautilusCD volume 4-6”. It runs no Hot List. It is the Internet feature issue, and it ships two directories that are arguably worth more than the picks:

• The Free-Nets — free public-access community systems, each with a city, a modem number, an Internet host and a visitor login. Cleveland, Buffalo, Denver, Victoria, Wellington, Erlangen. 19 of them named a real host and are now in the directory as telnet resources.
• PDIAL — Peter Kaminski's Public Dialup Internet Access List, 82 KB, the standard 1994 answer to “how do I get online”. 88 providers are inventoried with their services, fees and coverage; 40 of them published an FTP address for more information, and those are now entries.

A dial-up telephone number is not a network address, so no entry was minted from one — the same line drawn against the access-provider section of Braun's directory. Only the addresses these documents name outright were taken.

The Free-Nets — 19 with a working host

Name	Address	As the June 1994 disc records it
Big Sky Telegraph	telnet://192.231.192.1	A free public-access community network in Dillon, Montana. Visitor login: bbs. Dial-up 406-683-7680.
Buffalo Free-Net	telnet://freenet.buffalo.edu	A free public-access community network in Buffalo, New York. Visitor login: freeport. Dial-up 716-645-3085.
CIAO! Free-Net	telnet://142.231.5.1	A free public-access community network in Trail, British Columbia, Canada. Visitor login: guest. Dial-up 604-368-5764.
Cleveland Free-Net	telnet://freenet-in-a.cwru.edu	A free public-access community network in Cleveland, Ohio. Visitor login: Select #2 at first menu. Dial-up 216-368-3888.
Columbia Online Information Network (COIN)	telnet://bigcat.missouri.edu	A free public-access community network in Columbia, Missouri. Visitor login: guest. Dial-up 314-884-7000.
Dayton Free-Net	telnet://130.108.128.174	A free public-access community network in Dayton, Ohio. Visitor login: visitor. Dial-up 513-229-4373.
Denver Free-Net	telnet://freenet.hsc.colorado.edu	A free public-access community network in Denver, Colorado. Visitor login: guest. Dial-up 303-270-4865.
Free-Net Erlangen-Nuernburg	telnet://131.188.192.11	A free public-access community network in Erlangen, Germany. Visitor login: gast. Dial-up +49-9131-85-8111.
Lorain County Free-Net	telnet://freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu	A free public-access community network in Elyria, Ohio. Visitor login: guest. Dial-up 216-366-9721.
National Capital Free-Net	telnet://freenet.carleton.ca	A free public-access community network in Ottawa, Canada. Visitor login: guest. Dial-up 613-564-3600.
Ocean State Free-Net	telnet://192.207.24.10	A free public-access community network in Providence, Rhode Island. Visitor login: . Dial-up 401-831-4640.
ORION	telnet://ozarks.sgcl.lib.mo.us	A free public-access community network in Springfield, Missouri. Visitor login: . Dial-up 417-869-6100.
Prairienet	telnet://prairienet.org	A free public-access community network in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Visitor login: visitor. Dial-up 217-255-9000.
Rio Grande Free-Net	telnet://rgfn.epcc.edu	A free public-access community network in El Paso, Texas. Visitor login: visitor. Dial-up 915-775-5600.
Tallahassee Free-Net	telnet://freenet.fsu.edu	A free public-access community network in Tallahassee, Florida. Visitor login: visitor. Dial-up 904-488-5056.
Tristate Online	telnet://tso.uc.edu	A free public-access community network in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dial-up 513-579-1990.
Victoria Free-Net	telnet://freenet.victoria.bc.ca	A free public-access community network in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Visitor login: guest. Dial-up 604-595-2300.
Wellington Citynet	telnet://kosmos.wcc.govt.nz	A free public-access community network in Wellington, New Zealand. Visitor login: <Service not available>. Dial-up +64-4-801-3060.
Youngstown Free-Net	telnet://yfn.ysu.edu	A free public-access community network in Youngstown, Ohio. Visitor login: visitor. Dial-up 216-742-3072.

PDIAL — the 40 providers that published an FTP address

Name	Address	As the June 1994 disc records it
a2i communications (information archive)	ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/BLURB	a2i communications, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell (SunOS UNIX and MS-DOS), ftp, telnet, irc, feeds, domains and host-less domains, virtual ttys, gopher. Local access: CA: West and South SF Bay Area long distance -> provided by user.
RainDrop Laboratories (information archive)	ftp://agora.rain.com/pub/gopher-data/agora/agora	RainDrop Laboratories, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, gopher, usenet. Local access: OR: Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Gresham, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, Tualatin, Wilsonville long distance -> provided by user.
Anomaly - Rhode Island's Gateway To The Internet (information archive)	ftp://anomaly.sbs.risc.net/anomaly.info/access.zip	Anomaly - Rhode Island's Gateway To The Internet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, SLIP. Local access: RI: Providence/Seekonk Zone long distance -> provided by user.
Communications Accessibles Montreal (information archive)	ftp://ftp.cam.org	Communications Accessibles Montreal, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, gopher, wais, WWW, irc, feeds, SLIP, PPP, AppleTalk, FAX gateway. Local access: QC: Montreal, Laval, South-Shore, West-Island long distance -> provided by user.
Clark Internet Services, Inc. (ClarkNet) (information archive)	ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/clarknet/fullinfo.txt	Clark Internet Services, Inc. (ClarkNet), a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, menu, ftp, telnet, irc, gopher, hytelnet, www, WAIS, SLIP/PPP, ftp space, feeds (UUCP & uMDSS), dns, Clarinet. Local access: MD: Baltimore; DC: Washington; VA: Northern VA long distance -> provided by user.
Community News Service (information archive)	ftp://cscns.com	Community News Service, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: UNIX shell, email, ftp, telnet, irc, USENET, Clarinet, gopher, Commerce Business Daily. Local access: CO: Colorado Springs, Denver; continental US/800 long distance -> 800 or provided by user.
CONCERT-CONNECT (information archive)	ftp://ftp.concert.net	CONCERT-CONNECT, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: UUCP, SLIP. Local access: NC: Asheville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Greenville, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Research Triangle Park long distance -> provided by user.
connect.com.au pty ltd (information archive)	ftp://ftp.connect.com.au	connect.com.au pty ltd, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: SLIP, PPP, ISDN, UUCP, ftp, telnet, NTP, FTPmail. Local access: Australia: Melbourne, Sydney long distance -> provided by user.
Data Basix (information archive)	ftp://data.basix.com/services/dial-up.txt	Data Basix, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: Telnet, FTP, NEWS, UUCP; on-site assistance. Local access: AZ: Tucson long distance -> provided by user.
DIAL n' CERF or DIAL n' CERF AYC (information archive)	ftp://nic.cerf.net/cerfnet/dial-n-cerf/	DIAL n' CERF or DIAL n' CERF AYC, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, menu, irc, ftp, hytelnet, gopher, WAIS, WWW, terminal service, SLIP. Local access: CA: Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Irvine, Pasadena, Palo Alto long distance -> provided by user.
DIAL n' CERF USA (information archive)	ftp://nic.cerf.net/cerfnet/dial-n-cerf/	DIAL n' CERF USA, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, menu, irc, ftp, hytelnet, gopher, WAIS, WWW, terminal service, SLIP. Local access: anywhere (800) service is available long distance -> included.
GLAIDS NET (Homosexual Network) (information archive)	ftp://glaids.wa.com	GLAIDS NET (Homosexual Network), a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: BBS, Gopher, ftp, telnet. Local access: WA: Seattle long distance -> provided by user.
Halcyon (information archive)	ftp://halcyon.com/pub/waffle/info	Halcyon, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, telnet, ftp, bbs, irc, gopher, hytelnet. Local access: Seattle, WA long distance -> provided by user.
HoloNet (information archive)	ftp://holonet.net/info/	HoloNet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: ftp, telnet, irc, games. Local access: Berkeley, CA long distance -> [per hour, off-peak/peak] Bay Area: $0.50/$0.95; PSINet A: $0.95/$1.95; PSINet B: $2.50/$6.00; Tymnet: $3.75/$7.50.
IEunet Ltd., Ireland's Internet Services Supplier (information archive)	ftp://ftp.ieunet.ie/pub	IEunet Ltd., Ireland's Internet Services Supplier, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: DialIP, IPGold, EUnet Traveller, X400, X500, Gopher, WWW, FTP, FTPmail,SLIP/PPP, FTP archives. Local access: Dublin, Ireland long distance -> provided by user, or supplied by IEunet.
Institute for Global Communications/IGC Networks (PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet, HomeoNet) (information archive)	ftp://igc.apc.org/pub	Institute for Global Communications/IGC Networks (PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet, HomeoNet), a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: telnet, local newsgroups for environmental, peace/social justice issues; NO ftp. Local access: CA: Palo Alto, San Francisco long distance -> [per hour, off-peak/peak] SprintNet: $2/$7; 800: $11/$11.
Individual Network e.V. (IN) (information archive)	ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/doc/IN/	Individual Network e.V. (IN), a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: e-mail, usenet feeds, UUCP, SLIP, ISDN, shell, ftp, telnet, gopher, irc, bbs. Local access: Germany: Berlin, Oldenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Krefeld, Kiel, Duisburg, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Hannover, Ruhrgebiet, Bonn, Magdeburg, Duesseldorf, Essen, Koeln, Paderborn, Bielefeld, Aachen, Saarbruecken, Frankfurt, Braunschweig, Dresden, Ulm, Erlangen, Nuernberg, Wuerzburg, Chemnitz, Muenchen, Muenster, Goettingen, Wuppertal, Schleswig, Giessen, Rostock, Leipzig and other long distance -> provi
InterAccess (information archive)	ftp://interaccess.com/pub/interaccess.info	InterAccess, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: ftp, telnet, SLIP/PPP, feeds, shell, UUCP, DNS, ftp space. Local access: Chicagoland metropolitan area long distance -> provided by user.
KAIWAN Public Access Internet Online Services (information archive)	ftp://kaiwan.com/pub/KAIWAN	KAIWAN Public Access Internet Online Services, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, irc, WAIS, gopher, SLIP/PPP, ftp space, feeds, dns, 56K leasd line. Local access: CA: Los Angeles, Orange County long distance -> provided by user.
MCSNet (information archive)	ftp://genesis.mcs.com/mcsnet.info/	MCSNet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, feeds, email, irc, gopher, hytelnet, etc.. Local access: IL: Chicago long distance -> provided by user.
Texas Metronet (information archive)	ftp://ftp.metronet.com/pub/metronetinfo/	Texas Metronet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, SLIP, PPP, uucp feeds. Local access: TX: Dallas, Fort Worth long distance -> provided by user.
Merit Network, Inc. -- MichNet project (information archive)	ftp://nic.merit.edu/	Merit Network, Inc. -- MichNet project, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: telnet, SLIP, PPP, outbound SprintNet, Autonet and Ann Arbor dialout. Local access: Michigan; Boston, MA; Wash. DC long distance -> SprintNet, Autonet, Michigan Bell packet-switch network.
MSen (information archive)	ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/msen	MSen, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, WAIS, gopher, telnet, ftp, SLIP, PPP, IRC, WWW, Picospan BBS, ftp space. Local access: All of SE Michigan (313, 810) long distance -> provided by user.
muc.de e.V. (information archive)	ftp://ftp.muc.de	muc.de e.V., a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: mail, news, ftp, telnet, irc, gopher, SLIP/PPP/UUCP. Local access: Munich/Bavaria, Germany long distance -> provided by user.
MV Communications, Inc. (information archive)	ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/mv	MV Communications, Inc., a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, gopher, SLIP, email, feeds, dns, archives, etc.. Local access: Many NH communities long distance -> provided by user.
NEARnet (information archive)	ftp://nic.near.net/docs	NEARnet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: SLIP, email, feeds, dns. Local access: Boston, MA; Nashua, NH long distance -> provided by user.
Netcom Online Communication Services (information archive)	ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/netcom/	Netcom Online Communication Services, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, irc, WAIS, gopher, SLIP/PPP, ftp space, feeds, dns. Local access: CA: Alameda, Irvine, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Walnut Creek; CO: Denver; DC: Washington; GA: Atlanta; IL: Chicago; MA: Boston; OR: Portland; TX: Dallas; WA: Seattle long distance -> provided by user.
North Shore Access (information archive)	ftp://northshore.ecosoft.com/pub/flyer	North Shore Access, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell (SunOS UNIX), ftp, telnet, archie, gopher, wais, www, UUCP feeds. Local access: MA: Wakefield, Lynnfield, Lynn, Saugus, Revere, Peabody, Salem, Marblehead, Swampscott long distance -> provided by user.
NovaLink (information archive)	ftp://ftp.novalink.com/info	NovaLink, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: ftp, telnet, gopher, shell, irc, XWindows, feeds, adult, user groups, FAX, Legends of Future Past. Local access: MA: Worcester, Cambridge, Marlboro, Boston long distance -> CPS: $1.80/hour 2400, 9600; SprintNet $1.80/hour nights and weekends.
Nuance Network Services (information archive)	ftp://ftp.nuance.com/pub/NNS-INFO	Nuance Network Services, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell (Unix SVR4.2), ftp, telnet, gopher, SLIP, PPP, ISDN. Local access: AL: Huntsville long distance -> provided by user.
South Coast Computing Services, Inc. (information archive)	ftp://sccsi.com/pub/communications/*	South Coast Computing Services, Inc., a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, gopher, Usenet, UUCP feeds, SLIP, dedicated lines, domain name service, FULL time tech support. Local access: TX: Houston metro area long distance -> provided by user.
Northwest Nexus Inc. (information archive)	ftp://nwnexus.wa.com/NWNEXUS.info.txt	Northwest Nexus Inc., a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: UUCP, SLIP, PPP, feeds, dns. Local access: WA: Seattle long distance -> provided by user.
PREPnet (information archive)	ftp://ftp.prepnet.com/prepnet/general/	PREPnet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: SLIP, terminal service, telnet, ftp. Local access: PA: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg long distance -> provided by user.
PSILink - Personal Internet Access (information archive)	ftp://ftp.psi.com/	PSILink - Personal Internet Access, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: email and newsfeed, ftp. Local access: long distance -> [per hour, off-peak/peak] PSINet A: included; PSINet B: $6/$2.50; PSINet B international: $18/$18.
PSI's World-Dial Service (information archive)	ftp://ftp.psi.com/	PSI's World-Dial Service, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: telnet, rlogin, tn3270, XRemote. Local access: long distance -> [per hour, off-peak/peak] V.22bis: $1.25/$2.75; V.32: $3.00/$4.50; 14.4K: $4.00/$6.50.
Teleport (information archive)	ftp://teleport.com/about	Teleport, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, gopher, usenet, ppp, WAIS, irc, feeds, dns. Local access: OR: Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Gresham, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, Tualatin, Wilsonville long distance -> provided by user.
Telerama Public Access Internet (information archive)	ftp://telerama.pgh.pa.us/info/general.info	Telerama Public Access Internet, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: telnet, ftp, irc, gopher, ClariNet/Usenet, shell/menu, uucp. Local access: PA: Pittsburgh long distance -> provided by user.
UUNET Canada, Inc. (information archive)	ftp://ftp.uunet.ca	UUNET Canada, Inc., a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: terminal access to telnet only, UUCP (e-mail/news), SLIP/PPP, shared or dedicated basis, from v.32bis to 56k+. Local access: ON: Toronto, Ottawa, Kitchener/Waterloo, London, Hamilton, QC: Montreal, AB: Calgary, BC: Vancouver long distance -> provided by user.
The World (information archive)	ftp://world.std.com/world-info/description	The World, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, ftp, telnet, irc. Local access: Boston, MA long distance -> Compuserve Packet Network: $5.60/hour.
XNet Information Systems (information archive)	ftp://ftp.xnet.com/xnet.info/	XNet Information Systems, a public dial-up Internet provider listed in the PDIAL list of June 1994. Services: shell, telnet, hytelnet, ftp, irc, gopher, www, wais, SLIP/PPP, dns, uucp feeds, bbs. Local access: IL: Chicago, Naperville, Hoffman Estates long distance -> provided by user.

What the five discs were worth

Most of the Hot List picks were already in our directory, so as a source of new addresses these discs are modest. That is not what they are for. A dated monthly gives you evidence about when, and June gives you a part of the 1994 internet that nothing else here covers:

Hot List picks across four issues	30
Already held, now with a second, precisely dated witness	28
Held entries that had no description at all, now filled from 1994 copy	7
Held entries dated 1995 that these discs prove live in 1994	13
Free-Nets recovered from the June issue	19
PDIAL provider archives recovered	40
New to the collection in total	61