You have entered the Last Homely House's Hall of Excellence

This Hall is devoted to recognizing excellence on the Web. Pages and services are listed which show the potential of the Web being realized. The authors of these pages have ignored the obvious limitations of the Web and achieved things which others would not have thought possible. All possible thanks and congratulations are owed to these WWW Pioneers. Many of these sites are listed because of their historical importance in the early days of the web.

TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE (Taking HTML and the WWW to their limits!)

• MapQuest Incredibly detailed and comprehensive. Find streets, businesses, travel directions, Web sites, restaurants, ... throughout the USA. Amazing. Nowadays I more often use Google Maps but MapQuest was first by a mile.
• Cool Site of the Day After years of picking cool sites, the previous cool sites list includes most of the Interesting, Unusual and Fun sites around (including this one).
• Google An absolutely amazing search engine. Far better than any other I have used.
• The Nine Planets, by Bill Arnett An incredible repository of images, sounds, text and more on all the planets, moons and more in our Solar System. All the material is fully hyperlinked and cross-referenced.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day Gorgeous image with explanation every day.

HOME PAGES

• Phoebe's Domicile
• Wunderland

MISCELLANEOUS

• Comics: Dr. Fun and The Dilbert Zone Dr. Fun has been on the Web since the beginning (finally ended in 2006 after 13 years of strips) and it is great of Scott Adams to make Dilbert available this way.
• WiReD Magazine - My favorite magazine for years.
• Robert Hartill's Movie Server Detailed, searchable and useful and that's just a start. Also deserves special credit for how early it was started. The official name is now "The Internet Movie Database".
• Le WebLouvre An Incredible art exhibition on the Web.
• The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, imho, in recent years, by far the best science fiction on television. This Web site is incredibly comprehensive.

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