Pointers to useful information

The Vangelis WWW page

September 13, 1994

The first Vangelis Home Page is online. The page consists of many pictures, digitized music and animations. Vangelis is a famous synthisizer guru and he has made soundtracks for many movies. Also included in this page is a section specific to Bladerunner, the most discussed movie of the Internet.

The Rolling Stones Web Site

September 2, 1994

The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band is proud to announce their very own Web Server. They are the Rolling Stones and they are now giving you the best place in netland for the real Stones fan to hang out. Offerings include:

All from their 94/95 Voodoo Lounge World Tour.

Usenet FAQs

You can get the FAQs for nearly every newsgroup (and many of the Internet mailing lists) via the World Wide Web from: 
    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html
Or via FTP from rtfm.mit.edu (I don't remember the directory, so poke around).

Also if you have access to gopher, the FAQ's are available at: 

    gopher://gopher.physics.utoronto.ca/11/FAQ

De VPRO op Internet 

From: sysman@ibmsp.elis.rug.ac.be (ELIS MailServeR)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.belgium
Subject: MSR 
Date: 2 Sep 1994 05:01:31 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway

----[ M S R ]----------------[ Fri, 2 Sep 1994 12:01:20 +0100 ]----
[...]
DE VPRO OP INTERNET

De *intelligentste* (NVDR: dixit Marc Coevoet) omroep van de lage landen, de Vpro, gaat internet op. De ganse maand september staan de programma's in het teken van de digitale revolutie. Ze hebben een World Wide Web-site gecreeerd, met adres http://www.vpro.nl. Daarmee is de Vpro de eerste nederlandstalige omroep die op de evolutie van de media inspeelt. 

[...]
--------------------------------[ Eindredactie: Nick Cremelie ]----

German Railways timetables and information 

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc,eunet.misc,eunet.news,
soc.culture.europe,comp.infosystems.gopher,rec.travel
From: amarecki@sun72.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Andrzej Marecki)
Subject: Re: European Railway Schedules
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 08:50:26 GMT
For German Railways timetables and information try: 
    http://rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ule3/info-trn.html

WWW: Pink Floyd Web Page 

From: sheilah@wam.umd.edu (Sheila Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Subject: WWW: Pink Floyd Web Page
Followup-To: alt.music.pink-floyd
Date: 11 June 1994 17:12:53 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Announcing a Pink Floyd home page at http://www.princeton.edu/~humper/floyd/floyd.html including: 
   art
   articles
   The Echoes FAQ.
   discographies.
   lyrics sheets.
   some random sounds
This server is under developement by Grigori Humphreys (humper@phoenix.Princeton.edu), who appreciates any help in the venture. (and now that finals are done, will have more time to work on it).

And drop me a note (sheilah@wam.umd.edu), I'm updating the html Echoes FAQ, and I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to make it more useful. 

Sheila Herndon, sheilah@wam.umd.edu

Tampere Telephone Company WWW, Finland 

From: tki@uta.fi (Tuukka Kirveskoski)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Subject: Tampere Telephone Company WWW, Finland
Date: 10 June 1994 20:27:25 +0300
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
Tampere Telephone Company WWW in Tampere, Finland is now open. Server is official and contains some links to other organizations in Tampere Region.

URL is http://www.tpo.fi/

Gutenberg WWW server 

Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gutnberg
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 22:14:12 CDT
From: Evan Mair 
Subject: HTTP SERVER
[... ] I've had a WWW server running for MONTHS now, and it's up todate to May, 1994!! [... ] I am very open to suggestions on how to improve it, but I still get a dozen accesses a day!

The URL is: http://med-amsa.bu.edu/Gutenberg/Welcome.html

Evan

An Archie gateway for the WWW.

When in Europe, use ArchiePlexForm at Imperial College as an Archie gateway for the WWW.

Serveur de recette 

Newsgroups: fr.rec.cuisine
From: demers@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Demers Serge)
Subject: serveur de recette
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 19:54:27 GMT
Il existe un serveur de recettes qui est accessible avec mosaic. Voici l'adresse: 
xmosaic http://www.vuw.ac.nz/who/Amy.Gale/other-sites.html
Pour un index general: cliquer sur "recipe archive"

Je crois que toutes les recettes sont en anglais.

Bonne chance!

Serge

Guide to Cyberspace 6.1 

From: kevinh@squick.eit.com (Kevin Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [comp.infosystems.www] ANNOUNCE: Guide to Cyberspace 6.1
Date: 24 May 1994 17:54:04 +0200
Organization: Enterprise Integration Technologies
X-Original-Date: 21 May 1994 15:54:56 -0700
The next version of "Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace" is finally out!

The Guide is intended to be used as a beginner's guide to the World-Wide Web in a "hands-on" sort of way, and offers answers to many basic questions about the Web. Web statistics, software pointers, information on hypertext and hypermedia, and other topics are covered.

You can go to the Guide's main site at: http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/

Or FTP to ftp.eit.com and go to the /pub/web.guide/ directory. There you'll find text-only, PostScript, HTML, and FrameMaker 4.0 versions of the Guide.

NOS TeleTekst

The Dutch television NOS TeleTekst pages are available via WWW.

The Beatles' information page

The Beatles' information page contains a collection of links to various Beatles related information sources on the net.

WWW Developers Page

From: ccooper@halcyon.halcyon.com (Charles W. Cooper II)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www
Subject: WWW Developers Page
Date: 5 Apr 1994 15:36:16 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
OneWorld Information Services Announces the HTML Developer's Reference Page.

OneWorld Information Services has agreed to host a Reference page containing very comprehensive references to resources regarding development of HTML documents..

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is what is used to create documents that can be viewed in Mosaic and other World Wide Web clients.

The HTML Developer's page is available either directly, or through the Home page for Oneworld Information Services.

University of Tampere (Finland) WWW server

From: samik@uta.fi (Sami K|ykk{)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www
Subject: ANNOUNCE--University of Tampere (Finland) WWW server
Date: 7 Apr 1994 14:01:57 +0300
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
The WWW server at University of Tampere, Finland, is now on-line!

The server offers information about the university, its departments, staff, students and more. At the moment a big part of information comes from the gopher server at gopher.uta.fi. More information is being added all the time to the WWW and the gopher.

Comments, suggestions and general feedback is welcome at the address webmaster@uta.fi.

Welcome!

Sami (http://www.uta.fi/~samik/samik.html)

CD-ROM Reviews available via FTP

From: cdroms@wariat.org (Config.sys)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,alt.cd-rom.reviews
Subject: CD-ROM Reviews available via FTP!!!
Date: 3 Apr 1994 21:56:27 -0400
We at config.sys, Inc. are pleased to announce that we are making our collection of CD-ROM reviews available via FTP. These reviews contain information on several of the titles we carry. At this point the archive is limited to about 30 reviews, however, more reviews are being written daily and will be added as they become available. Also available are our price lists for all titles that we carry.

We hope that you find the archive useful, and if you feel that you might be interested in providing a review for the archive, please mail us at the address below.

Jerod J. Husvar - jerodh@mcs.kent.edu

Cordis

From: elmar@haegar2.uni-paderborn.de (Elmar Schalueck)
Newsgroups: eunet.misc
Subject: Re: Cordis
Date: 30 Mar 1994 07:34:27 +0200
There are generally two methods to connect to CORDIS (the on-line information system sponsored by the CEC to help communicate the results of European initiatives such as ESPRIT projects):
  1. telnet echo.lu

    When the screen asks for the login code, enter echo. With this public password you have access to the News database of CORDIS and many other databases that are freely available.

    If you need to access the projects mentioned above you have to register as a user of CORDIS. Write to: European Commission Host Organisation; Customer Service; Box Postale 2373; L-1023 Luxembourg.

  2. If you have access to Gopher or WWW you can connect to the public databases of ECHO with the following links:

U.S. Census Bureau Internet Site

From: calliope@netcom.com (Gary Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: U.S. Census Bureau Internet Site (Web, Gopher, FTP)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 21:16:23 GMT
The United States Bureau of the Census has opened an information server on the internet. Please explore our service and tell us what you think. Connect to our beta site by pointing your client software to our universal resource locators (URL's) for use with Also, we plan to offer a majordomo mail server in the near future.

The Virtual Tourist

A map showing the location of Web Information Services in the world. This can be used as a starting point for exploration of info on countries, etc.

Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Pertti Kellomäki, of Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland, is building a HTML Tour of Old Tampere (= around the turn of the century).

Current ECU rates

From: elmar@uni-paderborn.de (Elmar Schalueck)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Date: 9 Mar 1994 07:42:15 +0100
The University of Paderborn announces the current ECU rates, supplied by the European Communities, with its Gopher-Gateway to the ECHO-host. Retrieval may take a minute. Don't worry.

Internet Web Text (hypertext Internet resource guide)

From: decemj@rpi.edu (John December)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 19:49:33 EST
I've developed a hypertext guide to Internet resources, Internet Web Text, which includes links to information about Internet orientation, guides, reference materials, browsing and exploring tools, subject- and word-oriented searching tools, and information about connecting with people.

More information on the Internet Web Text is available.

My guide employs a variety of ways to present information, including list, narrative, icons-only, and icon-less versions.

Caution: I use icons a lot; you might delay image loading at first.

I created the guide for a course in Computer-Mediated Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that I am helping to teach. My goal was to create an interface students could use to familiarize themselves with the Internet, how to use it, how to find information, and how to connect with people. This text might also be helpful in any general situation where you are providing links for users to find out more information about the Internet. You are welcome to link to any of the versions.

John December / decemj@rpi.edu / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Troy, New York / PhD Candidate / Department of Language, Literature, and Communication / John

Mathematical Experiences Through Image Processing

From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 01:24:14 GMT
The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science has created the Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing (METIP) home page. The METIP project uses image processing techniques to create tools and activities for middle school students to motivate them in the subject of mathematics.

Digital's World-Wide Web

From: 07-Mar-1994 1331 
To: Multiple recipients of list DECNEWS 
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 10:33:04 PST
Subject: MARCH ISSUE OF DECNEWS FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH
CLIENT/SERVER DETAILS VIA DIGITAL'S WORLD-WIDE WEB.....Detailed information on the new client/server products and services recently announced can be obtained through Digital's World-Wide Web server.

DIGITAL'S WORLD-WIDE WEB........ Digital's product and service information can be obtained through a World-Wide Web (WWW) server.

Publicly Available Mailing Lists

From magnus@svartbak.ii.uib.no (Magnus Y Alvestad)
Date: 23 Feb 1994 09:21:50 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.announce
The WWW version of the Publicly Available Mailing Lists list regularily posted by Stephanie da Silva .

It is updated (manually for now) every time the regular list is. It has structure, the root document is 50k, and each mailing list is in its own file.

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

A primer for producing documents in HTML , the markup language used by the World Wide Web.

Pointers to less useful information

Internet Coke machines

A list of Internet Accessible Coke Machines.

The Trojan Room Coffee Machine

The current status of a coffee machine at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory is available via WWW.

Dirk Craeynest