March 24, 1996
World-Wide Web fans will want to visit the sites of the latest local arrivals to be found on the Internet.
The city of Radcliff and the Lincoln Trail Area Development District are both proud cyberparents to new, top-notch recently launched Web sites.
Radcliff's Web site is also a participant in the Great Internet Easter Egg Hunt -- where Web surfers around the world participate in an on-line race to find virtual Easter eggs.
The hunt is sponsored by the Branch Mall, an on-line marketplace on the World-Wide Web.
Radcliff's Web site is linked to the hunt's host, the USA CityLink Project, a comprehensive collection of data and links to more than 1,600 Web sites for cities and states across the U.S.
How's the hunt work? It's simple: Visit Web sites listed on the USA CityLink Project Web site -- such as Radcliff's new Web site -- and find the special Easter egg graphic. Its located on one of the pages at each listed site.
To record a discovered Easter egg, write down the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), or address, of each Web page displaying the Easter egg graphic. The Web surfer recording the most Easter egg URLs wins.
And the prizes aren't bad: The first prize is $1,000 cash, followed by a 3-day stay in New Orleans' French Quarter and finally, a 3-day stay at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel located on Jekyll Island, Ga.
Participants in the Easter egg hunt will have to spend some time visiting various virtual communities -- something you'll enjoy doing at Radcliff's new Web page.
The site has lots of information on the community and attractions, with links to Fort Knox and other related Web pages.
Its a first-class Web site for anyone searching for information on the community.
LTADD. The Lincoln Trail Area Development District's Web site features content about most of the communities in Hardin, Grayson, Marion, LaRue, Meade, Nelson, Washington and Breckinridge counties.
LTADD provides a regional network for joint federal, state and local efforts in an effort to provide essentials for community improvements, and the district's Web site offers lots of information and links to other organizations.
YAHOOLIGANS. With eyes on the next generation of computer users, David Filo and Jerry Yang -- the former Stanford University graduates students who brought us the Yahoo! search engine -- unveiled Monday its new youth-oriented Web site, Yahooligans!
Yahooligans! is a searchable, browseable index of the Internet designed for Web surfers between the ages of 8 to 14. The site functions much like the Yahoo! search engine Ï and is just as powerful.
The site is a great place to start your kids out on the world of cyberspace. And to kick-off the Web site, there's a Yahooligans! sweepstakes currently underway, with lots of nifty prizes to be awarded.
A separate section is devoted to safety on the Internet, with a section for parents as well.
Another section is full of cool links for kids, including a kids' tour of the White House (by Socks the Cat, no less) and other neat links.
There's even a Club Yahooligans! that will clue you in to the latest cool Web sites and online contests, as well as a newsletter and discounts on Yahooligans t-shirts.
I found Yahooligans! to be a great starting spot for adults, too. If you're looking for education resources or entertainment on the Internet, you can't beat it.
ZD NET SOFTWARE LIBRARY. Computer magazine buffs will recognize the name Ziff-Davis as the publisher of a wide variety of magazines, including PC, PCWeek, PC Computing, Computer Shopper, MacUser, MacWeek, Computer Life, Family PC, and others.
Ziff-Davis has long had a first-class Web site to supplement the content of its numerous publications. But they've gone one better by creating the ZD Net Software Library.
The site is a comprehensive software library that offers more than 10,000 shareware and freeware titles.
Each one has been tested, screened for viruses and defects, and reviewed by a team of testers under the guidance of Ziff-Davis editors.
On my visit to the site the day it was launched, I found it to be well-stocked with many new software titles. Its an easy-to-use interface, and includes various methods of finding what you want.
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