Surf's up and the interactive digital water is fine. Here are this week's Internet web site picks Melinda’s Start-up Page interface to City.Net, an http://www.monkey- extensive library of local and boy.com/melinda/ regional information, Your the Melinda Rose Hathaway, 14, world for general information, lives in North Vancouver.-She tourist guides und pictures of has cancer, Melinda created thousands of places. this page to help provide other cancer kids and their caregivers with hope and access to related information. She is using the World Wide Weh in the best of ways. She's built in links to cancer information sources; contacts for cancer kids reaching out to others; fun and games and free stuff for kids ta unwind; computer stuff and information for caregivers, Metinda’s personal page. The site was designed and written by Melinda, her dad and her brother. Wimsey/iStar Internet Inc, donated resources, to make the site available. For more information on Melinda, see the news story in today's issue of the North Shore News, Andrew’s Virtual Dungeon htip://www.best.com/~wooldr Vawooldri/vungeon. htm! Andrew has a good idea here but he's entirely at the mercy of the tortured souls who choose to buy into his vision, or rather the Vision from the Seeress Vungeon. The World Wide Web allows the forever ‘CONFUSED?... We offer full iardware & software systems support Pentium -75Mz -8 MB Raa * Win 95 Multimedia ) +1 GB hard drive * Internet ready UWAAGINATIVE ‘ GP & Peteeateed oe4-7400" 1440 Rupert St, N.Van. growing virtual world and that’s what this fellow is facilitating. Visitors are encouraged to create a room/space/dungeon that is on the other side of a virtual “door” and then create 4 link from that door back to mine. The visitor then e-mails Andrew with the link and he adds it to the “shared virtual world.” Open some scary doors with the guy by e- mailing to andreww @c2.org Virtual Tourist World Map http://www. vtourist.com/web map/ The Virtual Tourist is a motherlode much worthy of bookmarking. It's a geographic directory of ali the WWW servers in the world. The site offers a point and click world map. You simply click on a part of the world you want to travel to and off you go Visit the NSN Online... www.nsnews.com To advertise in. ~ “Hot Mouse” | ‘please call Lara @ 986-6222 made possible by Internet j technology. Expedition | members five in different countries, but were introduced | to one another while surfing the net for similar topics and information. This coming August the expedition will make an attempt to cross the VatnaJokull Ice Cap in Iceland by a route of about 100 miles. } The team’s goal is to make the { crossing on foot and ski, J pulling all food and equipment | in sledges. Visit the Web site to explore the details of how such an expedition is planned, examine the equipment fists, read regular postings and ask questions. Believe it or not, expedition members Svein Willassen and Cameron Smith have never actually met in person! They've conducted most planning by e-mail and some snail mail. . Shareware from Shareware.coin . http://www.shareware.cony/ Search a database of over - . 210,000 software files, PC or Icecap Expedition. Macintosh. Need I say more? The expedition was literally Go and get your share. E-mail:editor@nsnews.com ve ms, Norway and USA VatnajJokull Icecap Expedition 1996 http: drew aracnet.coml-icee apceland.h This is the website for the 1996 Norway and USA VatnaJokull without the baggage. Virtual Tourist is hosted by XMission as a free service of Kinesava Geographics. Virtual Tourist I World Map http://www.vtourist.com/vt/ firtual Tourist Il is a companion site to the Virtual Tourist. 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