by
Harry M. Kriz
University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0434
hmkriz@vt.edu
The World Wide Web (WWW) is emerging as an elegant and usable method for distributing information via computer networks. WWW uses interlinked hypertext documents to find and display multimedia information, including text, color graphics, video, and audio. The Web can be used to distribute information within a company or university, to a small group of students in a particular class, or to the entire world. The means for doing this are now available to anyone with a desktop computer connected to a network. Software is freely available on the Internet, as are WWW documentation and tutorials on creating hypertext multimedia documents. This paper is a brief introduction to the knowledge needed by professionals in any field who would like to extend their reach by distributing information through computer networks.
You can obtain a plain text version of this paper current as of March 24, 1995 (29,705 bytes). The ASCII file was prepared from this hypertext version using the 2nd beta release of Internet Assistant for Word for Windows The twelve separate HTML files of this hypertext version were captured via the Web and pasted to a single file. Redefining Word's styles handled most of the reformatting necessary to produce a readable ASCII file. As similar tools develop, it will become increasingly easy to reformat documents for the differing requirements of a variety of distribution media.
The first version of this paper was written at the request of Professor Peter Rony, editor of the "25th-Anniversary CACHE CD-ROM," CACHE Corporation, November 13, 1994. The paper was included on that CD-ROM in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). ASCII and hypertext versions were released on October 14, 1994.
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