Useful Gateways and Services

Locate Athena users using the zlocate program.

Zephyr is a distributing messaging system developed at MIT available from athena-dist. This gateway allows you to locate where on the Athena distributed network a user is logged in. For example, you can see if any of the webmasters are currently logged in.

Get current weather information and Boston forecast

This is a point and click map of the US which will then retrieve current weather conditions and forecasts for that location.

Athena and SIPB AFS cells

AFS is a the Andrew File System, a distributed file system used at MIT and dozens of other sites. The SIPB maintains an AFS cell of its own and exports the SIPB and Athena cells to the web.

Interface to Amateur Radio Callsigns database

Interface to the University of Buffalo ham radio callsign database, written by N1DPU, aka Mark Eichin

Interface to the cview program

Cview displays information on free Athena workstations broken down by location

A brand-new Discuss gateway

Newly redone, with lots of cool icons and stuff.

Geographic Nameserver database

This gateway allows you to look up geographic information about US locations, such as lat/long, population, zip code, county and lots more.

Some logs and statistics for this server.

At the moment, just usage growth over time.

The MITSFS Pinkdex

An on-line index of the MIT Science Fiction Society library, the largest science fiction collection in the world.

The Freshman Fishwrap

Fishwrap is a personalized newspaper project provided by the News in the Future group at the MIT Media Laboratory. (MIT only)

OLC Stock Answers to Common Questions

The Online Consultants answers to common questions. Includes answers to many questions about using Athena.

The Virtual Tourist.

A map of maps of web resources

MIT Student and Staff Directory.

A gateway to the MIT PhoneBook server, with information on MIT staff and students.

Eric Richard's Sports Information Service

Contains thorough up to date information about sports scores, rosters and standings. Currently only contains basketball information.

MIT floorplans

Eytan Adar presents MIT floorplans available for viewing. MIT community only.

MIT Workstation Cluster maps

nocturne maintains a set maps of various workstation clusters around MIT.

A finger gateway

This gateway will return useful finger information for as many places as possible. If you know of a place where it isn't as useful as it could be, let us know. Right now, querying athena.dialup.mit.edu is a way to demonstrate one of the nifty features.

A machine information gateway

This gateway provides DNS information about hostnames, and can handle queries for hostnames which involve odd DNS hacks, like www.ncsa.uiuc.edu.

SIPB documents

Information on everything from AFS, to Linux, to Zephyr, to SIPB itself.

Usenet FAQ archive

You can read the FAQs to many Usenet newsgroups on the Web, sorted by subject or by newsgroup heirarchy.
If you can't find a FAQ using the above link, you can also try to retrieve it by anonymous ftp to rtfm.mit.edu, the canonical Usenet FAQ site, sorted either by the particular usenet group or by hierarchy. However, rtfm.mit.edu is often very overloaded and slow, and so the only reason to use it is if you can't find the FAQ elsewhere.

Unofficial MBTA bus schedules

A group at LCS maintains an unofficial listing of MBTA bus, subway, and commuter rail schedules and maps.

Search the WWW Wandex

Matthew Gray's WWW Wanderer is an engine to determine the growth of the Web. You can now search the Web-wide index it generates.

Encyclopedia Britannica

The Encyclopedia Britannica is now available online to MIT. Licensing restrictions require the following text: "by the terms of MIT's license agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica, access to these materials is limited to Authorized Users of the MIT community only".

The Oxford English Dictionary

A monster dictionary -- available to MIT people on the Web.