Hungarian WWW information FAQ

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Subject:	Hungarian WWW information FAQ
Date:	09 Jan 2005 05:30:53 GMT

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Hungarian electronic resources FAQ

3. Interactive services
3.1 What's available on the World Wide Web

The following is the chapter recently removed from the main body of
the hungarian-faq. This is not yet completely re-edited for stand-alone
format, nor completing a collection of all important links has been
attempted. For more comprehensive WWW directories see, for example:
, or
.
This version 0.2 contains some aditional links not shown in 0.1,=20
see the HTML listing appended near the end of this document!

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Subject: 3. INTERACTIVE SERVICES

If you are using Hungarian interactive services from abroad (or vice
versa): please note that interactive Internet connections like WWW
may be very slow, even timing out during peak hours - try times of
lower network load when the response time is usually reasonable.

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Subject: 3.1 What's available on the World Wide Web

This document you are reading now is hosted at
, and its directory
has a few other documents and several links to other sites of
interest.

The Hungarian Home Page is at
with links to the
registered Hungarian www servers, including

- the Prime Minister's Office: (overseas users
please notice that the use of the
mirror is requested to cut down transatlantic traffic!)

- a weather forecast page (this is updated daily, and includes weather
forecasts, meteorological maps, and METEOSAT satellite images; this
page is in Hungarian)

- home pages of Hungarian cities (currently Budapest, Debrecen,
Miskolc, Pecs, Szeged), and of educational and other institutions=20

- a comprehensive list of Hungarian telnet services (e.g. library=20
databases), gopher and ftp sites (3.2). The content of almost all the=
=20
Hungarian FTP sites is indexed and can be searched.

The Hungary Online Directory (HUDIR) is at
featuring a hierarchical
database of Hungarian online content worldwide. Currently it has links
in excess of 2500.

HIX has a WWW server in the USA: the URL is .
To check out fresh content, see , which
gives you a comprehensive table of content for new material arrived in
the last 24 hours (which is typically in the order of 100-150 pages).
Besides back issues of its email journals, and a plethora of other
files in Hungarian and English, it offers an on-line English-Hungarian,
Hungarian-English dictionary ( - its
European mirror is at ), and various
home pages and pointers to other sources. Partial mirrors located in
Hungary are (for the Magyar Narancs
archive), and (for some pictures, and
searching the Radir database - see below).

Hungary.Network - The GateWWWay to Hungary at
has a number of government, commercial and
organizational users listed.

TourInform is at is the service
of the Hungarian Tourism Service, the official promotion agency of the
Hungarian Tourist Board. They offer practical information, maps,
broshures and even tours on video casette.

The Open Media Research Institute has a WWW server, available at
. Available at this Web site are all back issues
of the Daily Digest, tables of contents for Transition, OMRI's
bi-weekly analytical journal, and information about OMRI's activities
and staff.

The World Wide Web server of Central Europe Today is at the URL
.

Find back issues of the Hungary Report on the World Wide Web at=20
or .=20
The Hungary-Online archive is available from=20
or =20
as well.

There is a growing Hungarian resource directory at
. [The same server also hosts a
"Hungarian Electronic Resources FAQ".]

There is a"Foreign Languages for Travellers"collection of essential
Hungarian expressions with English, German and French explanation,
complete with sound at
l>.

The American Association of Young Hungarians (AAYH) has its homepage
at .

A Hungarian church in Chicago has info at
.

The Gyorgy Bessenyei Teachers Training College (Nyiregyhaza) offers=20
some 3000 pages worth of database for Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg county=20
(Eastern Hungary) as well as other goodies and general Internet help,
in both Hungarian and English: .

See also section 2.3 above, which covers
and refers to other links as well.

The following is a somewhat random working list, in HTML format,
of webpages of interest recently announced (which I haven't yet had
the time to check out or incorporate with further description):

"What's new in Hungary?" =09

"KINGA'S COOL HUNGARIAN LINKS" =09

"Historical Text Archive, Hungarian Images and Historical Background"> =09=

"Kuvasz Fanciers of America" =09

"Magyar Orsz=E1ggy=FBl=E9si Hivatal" =09

"Nepszabadsag Online"=09

"Szignum Media Hirlevel"=09

"Bohemelet"=09

"Az Apple Computer Magyarorszagon"=09

"Utilapu Halozat - SCI Hungary"=09

"Napi Gazdasag On-Line"=09

"Magyar Hirlap Ottlap"=09

"Other Side Magazin"=09

"A Savaria University Press Alapitvany honlapja"=09

"Debrecen Summer School"=09

"Az elso magyar online internet-felmeres eredmenyei"=09

"Jozsef Attila"=09

"RemindMe"=09

"Nevnap Emlekezteto"=09

"Nameday Reminder"=09

"Ujsag"=09

"Virtualis Vilagszepe Valasztas 1996"=09

"Valuta arfolyamok"=09

"Budapesti Arutozsde napi statisztika"=09

"Internet Expo Hungarian Pavilion"=09

"iNteRNeTTo, Budapest"=09

"Kossuth Radio"=09

"Millecentenariumi rendezvenyek programfuzete"=09

"Szabad Fold hetilap"=09

"Kapcsolattartas e-mail utjan az Interneten"=09

"interNET PIAC"=09

"Budapest Week"=09

"Jurix jogszabalygyujtemeny a halon"=09

"HMJ - Magyar Gazdasagi Jogszabalyok Haromnyelvu gyujtemenye"=09

"HMJ - Hungarian Economic Rules of Law"=09

"MSZP Szeged"=09

"H.T.BT. Honlap"=09

"A MAV Rt. www szervere"=09

"Hungarian State Railways Co."=09

"Magyar Elektronikus Konyvtar (Web felulettel)"=09

"Angol-magyar, magyar-angol szotar"=09

"Ipari, Kereskedelmi es Idegenforgalmi Miniszterium"=09

"Magyarorszagi Forditoirodak Egyesulete"=09

"Association of Hungarian Translation Companies"=09

"Szolgaltatasok az InterWare-nel"=09

"Services at InterWare"=09

"EMI Quint"=09

"Vilagegyetem - Egyetemistak es foiskolasok ketheti lapja"=09

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Since February 14, 1996 this document is authenticated=20
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(see for details),=20
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'finger magyar@world.std.com'!
Unauthorized publishing in off-line media - such as printed, CD-ROM or=20
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