| 01/05/96: |
The live video is now delta-GIF based. GIF with difference images gives us much
less bandwidth than entire JPEG images. But the world does not stop turning. We
are working on an AVI version which promises to require even less bandwidth.
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| 31/03/96: |
Visitor # 300.000.
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| 15/02/96: |
Visitor # 250.000.
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| 07/02/96: |
Magellan 4-Star site
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| 28/01/96: |
The layout controller strikes. The model railroad will not be teleoperated for some days.
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| 31/12/95: |
One of the 6 teleoperated devices on the Web recommended by IEEE Computer Magazine.
Thanks Ron.
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| 27/11/95: |
Article about the Interactive Model Railroad in the NY Times.
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| 24/11/95: |
Chosen as the "Dynamite Site of the
Nite" for November 25, 1995.
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| 16/11/95: |
Now supporting Netscape frames. The page won't reload any more when sending a command.
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| 30/10/95: |
The Interactive Model Railroad is presented at the Hobby
and Electronics Fair in Stuttgart/Germany from 1/11/95 to 5/11/95. Visit us at
the Maerklin booth.
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| 20/10/95: |
Visitor number 100.000.
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| 11/10/95: |
Realtime text display shows the hostname of the operator. Now you know, if you got
your command thru.
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| 05/10/95: |
Faster frame grabber delivers up to 8 images per second.
They will not all appear in the wide area, but you will see more frames,
if your connection to the Interactive Model Railroad is fast enough.
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| 18/08/95: |
Good news from Märklin: We will get new trains and one of their
large demo layouts. It's 4x5 m with up to 12 trains.
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| 15/08/95: |
And again: "Remote Operation Page of the Week"
(Fernauslöser der Woche) of
the german news magazin "Der Spiegel".
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| 14/08/95: |
Listed as a top 5% site by Point "Best of the Web"
survey.
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| 09/08/95: |
30.000th guest (LIBMAC30.LIB.UTK.EDU) and some houres later command #50.000.
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| 06/08/95: |
For all those who don't believe that the trains are really moving I've put a clock
in the lower left corner of the video image. You won't see the digits, but hopefully
the hand.
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| 21/07/95: |
New in the rolling stock: The Märklin Digital ICE.
The ICE-train. Command #40000. The trains have run about 240 km. |
| 19/07/95: |
Visitor #20.000 from macinfo2.psy.uva.nl.
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| 14/07/95: |
Replaced F7 Rio Grande by
BR 03.10.
The F7 Rio Grande caused several
crashes in the last 2
days. Who wants to support us with an american train ?
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| 13/07/95: | Konrad finished the "Burger King" and put it on the layout. It's right to the parking place in the center of the image. |
| 12/07/95: |
New engine: F7 Rio Grande Rick Ehrhart asked for an american engine. We still need some US boxcars. Someone willing to sponsor the project ? |
| 04/07/95: |
30.000th command.
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| 29/06/95: |
Main page redesigned. Better entry image. Added the gallery.
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| 22/06/95: |
20.000th command to the railroad by Joe Hosteny (ISLAND.WEH.ANDREW.CMU.EDU).
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| 26/06/95: |
Introduction of the Graphical User Interface
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| 20/06/95: |
Netscape Server-Push animation changed from GIF to JPEG. Video speedup of about 2-3.
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| 19/06/95: |
New engine: The Märklin promotion SBB 460.
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| 02/06/95: |
Realtime display about active users.
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| 05/06/95: |
Modified Mosaic to show multi-image GIF.
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| 05/05/95: |
Added log file as CGI output to watch activities .
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| 31/05/95: |
10.000th command to the railroad by someone from DEC (www-proxy.crl.research.digital.com).
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| 25/04/95: |
Added support for GIF based Nescape Server-Push animation.
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| 23/04/95: |
New engine: BR 03.10.
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| 24/04/95: |
The german news magazin "Der Spiegel" lists us as "Remote Operation Page of the Week" (
Fernauslöser der Woche).
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| 21/04/95: |
Created list of Frequently Asked Questions.
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| 18/04/95: |
Begin public operation with multi-image GIF animation. Developer of PD WWW browser chimera incorporates multi-image GIF code into his code base. |
| 11/04/95: |
Presentation
at the 3rd international WWW conference.
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| 09/04/95: |
First setup, internal test operation.
2 Engines: E 120, E 111.
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| 29/03/95: |
First video system on client and server side. Release streamserver which supports multiple clients from one live source. Modified PD WWW browser chimera to show multi-image GIF files. |