Protocol

• HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1
• Local http docs.
• URLs: rfc1738
• HTTP response codes, and what they mean.

Language

• HTML 2.0 Fill-out Forms, as implemented by the Mosaic browser.
• HTML 3.0 and its DTD, premilimary IETF draft maintained by Arena's author Dave Raggett.
• Netscape's extensions to HTML, Server push & pull, Frames.
• Numerical and ISO Latin-1 entity references as implemented by your browser.
• A gentle introduction to SGML and the SGML repository at ifi.uio.no;  SGML, HYTIME, DSSSL at the ZGDV.
• The style sheet discussion at www.w3.org.
• JavaScript authoring guide at www.netscape.com (local copy, zip file)

Server

• All servers at www.w3.org.
• WWW Servers Comparison Chart, by Paul Hoffman.
• CERN httpd, NCSA httpd, Apache
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• imagemaps, and how to survive them.
• a CGI printenv.
• Tom Boutell, CGI C Weenie, and the GIF manipulation library and the generic CGI library he's written.

Web

• Tim Berners-Lee, WWW VIP, now with the W3 Consortium at MIT.
• Dan Connolly.  Dan does HTML, can write, and used to be a good source for the current design state.  He's recently moved from hal.com to w3.org.
• The WWW Project at CERN has recently passed the hat to the French INRIA research institute.
• All tools and filters at www.w3.org.
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced ping), the image format that is to replace the proprietary GIF format.

Client

• All Clients at www.w3.org; Dave J. Garaffa's Browser Watch
• Mosaic manual
• Lynx, User's Manual.
• HotJava, the browser formerly known as WebRunner, uses Java, the extension language formerly known as Oak.
• Arena, the HTML 3.0 reference browser.
• Netscape, the company.

This list is intended to be relevant rather than polite or exhaustive.  That is, it should get you to the reference information you want as fast as possible, without forcing you to browse through oodles of overviews, tutorials, tables-of-contents, and welcome pages.  Contributions in that spirit, and of course corrections, are gratefully accepted.

Last update August 1995, by jutta@cs.tu-berlin.de.