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The handbook is updated almost daily. Below, you will find a short list of major changes by version number.

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3.5.3

The FreeISPs mailing list. Hushmail. The Encyclopaedia Britannica's 32-volume set is now available for free. Travel information on American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti-Polynesia, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The Russian State Library. Free translation service. SearchEngineGuide.COM. National Geographic maps. Worldwide daily news index. Fast Search.

3.5.2

Chinese Business World. Asia Times Online. Globalstar. Northern Light Search Alert.

3.5.1

Xmail. WWW Weather. ASP. The CYSTIC-L mailing list. Russian zoos . Web browsers by operating system. Information Quality on The Internet. Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources. Search tool for disabled net users.

3.5

Thailand News Web Directory. Russophilia. The Mojikyo font set. The IBJ Securities RESEARCH & LINKS page. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Online Support Group.

3.4.35

Database Central. The National Library of China (NLC). The Java Tutorial. The Dictionary of East Asian Buddhist Terms .

3.4.34

Current Awareness Resources using Internet Audio and Video . AllAllergy.net. BBC Worldwide Monitoring. Kyoto National Museum. Saudi Arabian Information Resource. BackGammon. Mailing list search engine. The CGI Resource Index. Scriptsearch. HushMail. Computer Crowsnest. More about hoaxes and desinformation in Chapter 14. The Tibet Information Network. Search Engine Colossus.

3.4.33

The Ludwig van Beethoven home page. More brass band related links. The Kitchen Link (for lovers of food). Langenberg Search. HIV/AIDS information at ÆGIS. Asia-oriented search engine. TheTrip.com for effortless flight information. Frequently Asked Questions searches. Kundalini Yoga.

3.4.32

NewsWatch. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics page . Added links for stamp collectors in Chapter 4. Operabase. Automatic language translation (Chapter 12).

3.4.31

Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web. Search engines world-wide. The Japanese Journals Information Web. The HEM-ONC mailing list. Shareware and public domain software search engines (Chapter 10).

3.4.30

Airport Search Engine. Financial-only content search engine. Directory and search engine for non-profit organizations.

3.4.29

The Used-Music Web and Russia tourism (Chapter 4). Changing your email address (Chapter 7). Africa News Online (Chapter 9). China market information and Russian Regional Database (Chapter 11). Global Internet Statistics by language (Appendix 1).

3.4.28

Czech Economy (Chapter 11). Chinese language search engines (Chapter 10). The UK Mapping Service and the Sushi mailing list (Chapter 4). Hints for Windows 98 users (Chapter 8). Russian Industry Enterprises databases (Chapter 11). Database of complementary and alternative medicine (Chapter 6).

3.4.27

More English grammar (Chapter 5). The LISTSERV mailing list catalog (Chapter 10). Meta-archive of non-Roman fonts (Chapter 3).

3.4.26

The Peking University Library (Chapter 10), Albania (Chapter 4), more medicinal herbs in Chapter 6.

3.4.25

The Global Gourmet (Chapter 4). The Windows NT mailing list (Chapter 8).

3.4.24

NewsCrawler, a newspaper archive search engine (Chapter 9).

3.4.23

Deafdigest (Chapter 6). Search engine for Online Advertisers, Marketers, and E-Commerce (Chapter 10).

3.4.22

Getting a personalized domain name (Chapter 7). Webster and the Dictionaries and Encyclopedias page (Chapter 10).

3.4.21

Reading mail when travelling (Chapter 7)

3.4.20

Maintenance version.

3.4.19

KUNG Fu and Tai CHi.

3.4.18

At http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/servers.html, there's an updated list of web-by-email servers, FTP mail servers, gophermail servers, Archie servers, and SimTel FTP mirrors.

3.4.15-17

Maintenance version.

3.4.14

Live cameras around the world. Iraq. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

3.4.13

Maintenance version.

3.4.12

Asian art. Free encyclopedia searches. The Economist.

3.4.11

More on filtering and keeping retrieved information. English as a second language.

3.4.9-10

Eudora filtering hints.

3.4.8

Maintenance version.

3.4.7

Porsche Net.

3.4.6

Email for free.

3.4.5

European rail passes. MP3.

3.4.4

Maintenance version.

3.4.3

The Dialog Corporation.

3.4.2

Links for photo enthusiasts.

3.4.1

Maintenance version.

3.4

Chinese philosophy and classics.

3.3.27

Virtual museums. Top 10 news from Asia. OECD.

3.3.26

Chinese medicine. Full text search in an archive of Russian newspapers and periodicals.

3.3.25

Cyrillic character coding schemes.

3.3.21-24

Maintenance versions.

3.3.20

Herpes. More news searching services. More on searching Web databases by email.

3.3.19

Searching today's news.

3.3.18

Maintenance version.

3.3.17

Collection of WWW by email help files. Organizations prepared to host your mailing list. Free NNTP servers.

3.3.16

Search engine for travel information. Service that checks web pages for html compatibility problems.

3.3.15

Bible resource. Real-time Asian-focused commercial information. Marketing- related discussions.

3.3.14

Chinese language. Search India's web. World competitiveness data.

3.3.13

Free MEDLINE information. Packet radio resource. IRC information resource.

3.3.4-3.3.12

Maintenance versions.

3.3.3

The Government of Pakistan. Europe by Eurail. Spanish language resource. Search Usenet FAQ files.

3.3.2

Hardware-oriented newsgroups by category.

3.3.1

Source for searching books, magazines, journals, and databases not generally available via the Web. Eudora for email.

3.3

More on spam (unsolicited commercial mail).

3.2.26

Auto parts. Russian news links. Web browser message boards.

3.2.25

Maintenance version.

3.2.24

Searching for games on the net.

3.2.23

Search engines for health topics (Chapter 10.

3.2.22

Arabic language search engine.

3.2.21

Job search resources. Foreign currencies.

3.2.20

New Alta Vista mirror sites (Asia, and Spanish-based)

3.2.19

More on searching mailing list archives.

3.2.18

Maintenance version.

3.2.17

Kidlink

3.2.16

Maintenance version.

3.2.15

Statistical information on China.

3.2.14

Russian news links.

3.2.13

Holidays around the world. Human anatomy. Global population database.

3.2.12

More diabetes and blind links.

3.2.11

Linux support. Meta-list of Internet Access Providers.

3.2.10

Webmaster forum. QBASIC help forum.

3.2.9

Forum for Windows 97 discussions. Basque culture discussions. More foreign language links.

3.2.8

Jokes.

3.2.7

Brass music. Japanese search engines.

3.2.4 - 3.2.6

Maintenance version.

3.2.3

Parts of Chapter 17 considerably changed.

3.2.2

Worldwide weather forecasts. More Web by email services.

3.2.1

Cookies.

3.2

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

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Update history going back to version 2.1.2.