Year 2000 Parable
Humorous tale of a Y2K COBOL consultant who has himself cryogenically frozen in order to avoid the Big Day.
http://www.stokely.com/lighter.side/y2000.parable.html

COBOL Programming Language: Hello World!
Sample COBOL source code for beginners.
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/hworld.html

COBOL Center
Dedicated to COBOL and to those with an investment in it. Many Internet sites have information on COBOL, but this site assembles it so you need not search the whole Web to find it. Practical help is here: standards, programming, reengineering, tools, skill improvement, sample code, jobs.
http://www.infogoal.com/cbd/cbdhome.htm

COBOL Portal
resource site for Cobol developers. Cobol related news, programming tips, resources and everything Cobol.
http://www.cobolportal.com/

Murach's Structured COBOL
New single volume release of the classic COBOL book series written by Mike Murach.
http://www.murach.com/books/cobol/index.htm

COBOL Programmers Back In The Game
ITWorld.com - You're wrong if you think COBOL programmers are doomed to go the way of the Edsel. COBOL developers who know the Internet can write their own job ticket.
http://www.itworld.com/Career/1944/ITW0319weinstein/

What Is COBOL?
Definition of COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language), the most popular and widely-used business programming language today in terms of running programs.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci213863,00.html

Hello World Program
COBOL source code for this traditional, beginner's programming exercise.
http://www2.latech.edu/~acm/helloworld/cobol.html

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-wit.html

COBOL Source Codes @ VyomWorld.com
COBOL projects and source codes.
http://www.vyomworld.com/source/LanguageHome.asp?LangId=4

COBOL User Groups: COBUG
A COBOL programming portal. References to jobs, compilers, sample code, and other programming resources.
http://www.cobug.com/

COBOL: IBM Technical Help Forum
Tek-Tips IBM COBOL technical support forum. Mutual help system for computer professionals.
http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=209

The SimoTime COBOL Connection
Find out how to do bit-manipulation, display a field in hex-dump format, access a parameter provided from JCL and other tricks. It is all done in COBOL and the source code may be downloaded.
http://www.simotime.com/indexcbl.htm