June 27, 1993

June 25, 1993

A Web server has been installed at the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique of the University of Geneva. Information about various research groups at the CUI is available, as well as a number of other experimental services.

June 24, 1993

The Institute for Theoretical Physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook is now running a Web server. Included is online Institute news bulletins, a directory of people, and local system documentation. HyTelnet 6.5 is now online; see here. If you haven't tried it yet, take a look at the Web server running inside JaysHouseMOO. See particularly the object browser. (For those unfamiliar with the term, a MOO is a "consensual text-based virtual reality", aka MUD or Multi-User Dungeon, wherein people interact with one other in a computer-enabled world. Since these systems commonly feature rich and extensible programming environments, it is possible to build Web, Gopher, and other servers (and clients!) directly into the online virtual world. Another example of this is the Gopher server running inside the Actuator MUD; more examples are here.)

June 23, 1993

June 22, 1993

June 21, 1993

Xerox PARC is now running an experimental public WWW server here; it features a slick world map server.

June 20, 1993

NCSA Mosaic's developers humbly ask people who refer to NCSA Mosaic in their online or printed documents to refer to it by its given name -- "NCSA Mosaic" -- rather than "xmosaic" or "Xmosaic". This helps us in a couple different ways, including keeping our management happy. Also, anyone who is using Mosaic in a real world project (education, research, commercial, etc.) is encouraged to drop us a line at mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu; details on how people are really using our software help us immensely, especially when it comes time to go for funding to let us build more and better software for you to use. Thanks in advance!

June 19, 1993

A new version of the public group/community annotation server running on hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8001 has been put in place. Now, backlinks to the annotated documents are automatically provided in new annotations. (For information on the public annotation server, see here.) A discussion of some design issues in group/community annotation systems, including the collision of WWW annotation systems and news, is now here; currently there are discussions of a Usenet approach to global annotations, and notification methods for tracking annotation activity.

June 18, 1993

June 17, 1993

June 16, 1993

A new overview of Mosaic's remote control capabilities is available. ("Remote control" means that Mosaic can be easily and flexibly controlled from other applications, e.g. to allow it to serve as an online help engine.)

June 15, 1993

The Mosaic demo document continues to evolve. Interesting new entries include a hypermedia art history exhibit from Michael Greenhalgh at Australian National University and an online version of the NCSA Digital Gallery.

June 14, 1993

An experimental WWW physics preprint server at Los Alamos is coming along nicely.