Resources
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C is the group that creates the standards for the Web, including HTML. This site contains the most recent HTML and lots of related information.
NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML. A guide to to html and other resources.
WebMonkey. A very popular and extensive site devoped to web development. They offer Beginner, Builder, Master web development tutorials.
Jo's One
Stop. Simple Html tutorial and other links.
clickZ
design section. Lots of good tips and tutorials.
Stanford's Web Credibility Research project
Free Scripts
Brainjar.com. DHtlm, Javasctript, more
DHTML Tutorial. DHTML, CSS, and more; free scripts and tutorials
Dynamic Drive. Lots of DHTML for a variety of purposes
Google Code. Google's open source project
JavaScript.Com. Offers, well, Javascripts
There are just SO many sites that share scripts free. As with anything "free," you sometimes get what you pay for. Shop around.
Some Resources on History and Terms
Hobbes' Internet Timeline Copyright (c)1993-2002 by Robert H Zakon
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
PBS Time line
http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/timeline-txt.html
A Brief History of the Internet from the Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
InterNic
Find out the whois of someone’s site
http://www.internic.net/faqs/authoritative-dns.html
ICANN Watch
ICANN for beginners
Internet Architecture Board
Russ Haynal’s site
http://www.navigators.com/internet_architecture.html
architecture
http://navigators.com/sessphys.html
http://livinginternet.com/?i/iw_arch.htm
Webopedia
Books
ANY book in the O'Reilly series (the ones with the animals on the covers).
Johnson-Eilola. Designing Effective Web Sites.
Castro. HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th Ed. (HTML)
Pollock. JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide. (JS)