Customizable Services

SIPB Web Script Service

SIPB operates scripts.mit.edu to host executable content provided by the MIT community. PHP and CGI are available. CGI programs must be developed for a Linux environment, but any language may be used. The web server has Perl and Python installed.

Alpha Caddie Blog Server

Creating a blog on this server is open to everyone in the MIT community. The server uses the Portal Factory architecture and is operated by MIT's Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory (IESL).

DevHood

This site is a developers' community for the .NET platform. It was created by six MIT alumni (classes of 2002 and 2003). The server is hosted by MIT's Data Center Operations Services.

Comment CGI script

Learn how to use the comment script in your home page. Users will have a more friendly interface to send you email.

Counter CGI script

Learn how to use our simple web page counter.

StoryFun

Matthew Gray and various SIPB members present a popular story-composition service.

Webzephyr gateway

This is a two-way integrated system that interfaces to the Zephyr interactive message system used in MIT's Athena environment. Webzephyr allows sending and receiving of personal messages with Athena users who choose to receive them. Minimal authentication is done through an initial email and a password.

Zwrite gateway

This is an interface to the Zephyr interactive message system used in MIT's Athena environment. Zwrite is available for sending messages, and zlocate can be used for finding if and where an MIT user is available online. For example, you can see if any of the webmasters are currently logged in.

Services and Gateways

Acronym compilation

The acronym compilation allows simple searches of three large acronym databases, with greatest focus on computer-related terms.

AFS directories

AFS (formerly known as the Andrew File System) is a distributed file system used at MIT and dozens of other sites. Our server uses AFS to let you read the web pages that MIT users have placed in their own Athena home directories.

Cview interface

Cview displays information on free Athena workstations broken down by location.

Discuss conferencing system

This gateway allows access to hundreds of discussion groups based at MIT, as well as archives of popular mailing lists.

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.

Geographic nameserver database

This program allows you to look up geographic information about US locations, such as lat/long, population, zip code, county and lots more. The database has been located at MIT since late 1997. Previously it had been located for many years at the University of Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

Human Genome Map

Searchable database from the Human Physical Mapping Project at the Broad Institute.

Hypermedia Teaching Facility

A database supporting multimedia web-based university-level instruction for students at MIT and for distance learning.

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.

Radio amateur callsigns database

Interface to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock ham-radio callsign database, written by N1DPU, aka Mark Eichin.

Science Fiction Society's Pinkdex

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

MIT Events Calendar

MIT's online listing of events.

TransWeb

This service provides conversions of GIF files to transparent GIF format -- the transparent portion can be selected via an imagemap interface as well as via a standard text form.

Weather information (only current, not historical) and Boston forecast

This service provides U.S. National Weather Service forecasts via a simple text interface. It was one of the first weather web sites.

Software

Kerberos telnet for Macintosh and Windows systems

This page is intended for folks who want to telnet to systems that offer a telnet service with Kerberos support, e.g., Athena's dialup servers. This is much safer than sending your password over the network to a system that doesn't support logins using Kerberos or ssh.

Macintosh software

Search the Info-Mac software collection, the largest Internet collection of software for the Macintosh (over 10,000 programs).

Virus protection software

The Information Security Office offers free computer virus protection software. Web access is limited to the MIT Community.

General Learning Resources

African American history database

The CLIMB resource for African American history and culture, presented by Charles L. Isbell and Michael Bowen.

Classics Archive

Searchable collection of classical works, in English. Hey, classics can be fun (like when you're punting your 8.05 problem set). Everything from the Iliad to Herodotus' History.

Courses' web pages

A listing of web pages for MIT courses that are using the World Wide Web for any aspects of instruction.

Fishwrap newspaper project

Fishwrap is a personalized newspaper project provided by the News in the Future group at the MIT Media Laboratory. Some services accessible to MIT community only.

Oxford English Dictionary

A monster dictionary. Accessible to MIT community only.

Research databases

Academic journal articles, news resources, and other commercial databases. Includes INSPEC, LEXIS-NEXIS Universe, MEDLINE, and the Sloan Trading Room databases of historical stock prices and corporate information. Accessible to MIT community only.

Usenet FAQ archive

An archive site at MIT lets you read the FAQs from many Usenet newsgroups, sorted by newsgroup hierarchy.

Listings and Collections

Floorplans for MIT

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

IHTFP Hack Gallery

Your favorite hacks are here, from the CP Car on the Dome, to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool.

University list

A large list of the university web sites throughout the world, maintained by Christina DeMello.

Workstation cluster maps

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

Technical Information

Computer Security at MIT

If you administer a Unix system at MIT (even if it's a PC that only occasionally runs a Unix system such as Linux or NetBSD) you should read some new information about maintaining security so that your system isn't compromised by intruders.

Growth of the Web and Internet

Matthew Gray's report documents the growth of the web since mid-1993. The early data was collected using Matthew's World Wide Web Wanderer, the first web spider.

NASA News

NASA public information bulletins, hosted by MIT's Center for Space Research.

OLC stock answers to common questions

The Athena Consulting answers to common questions. Includes answers to many questions about using Athena.

Publications from AI, LCS, LNS, and PSFC

Searchable collections of publications from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Laboratory for Computer Science, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and Plasma Science and Fusion Center, some from as early as 1959. (For AI and LCS, you may prefer to use the NCSTRL interface.)

Semiconductor and microsystems resources

A collection of information about semiconductor devices and the computer-aided design and fabrication of circuits, hosted by MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories.

SIPB documents

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

World Wide Web for the Clueless, by Eri Izawa

If you're new to the WWW, or don't know a server from a client, drop by!