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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:58:09 EST
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- From: "Stephen J. Cavrak, Jr." <SJC@UVMVM.UVM.EDU>
- Subject: Re: First Internet Hunt
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 9 Sep 1992 09:50:17 MST from <bstring@MAINZ-EMH2.ARMY.MIL>
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- On Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:50:17 MST BOB STRINGFIELD said:
- Howard is correct. How can one find out what is being maintained on
- the various servers on the Internet? Was not such a list being
- published by the folks on the old CSNET at one time. Wonder who
- picked it up or if no one did could be a worthwhile project. Nope.
- Can't. Volunteered for too many projects like this lately...
- --bob
-
- Recently I read, perhaps in the Chronicl of Higher Education, that
- a recent meeting of The Internet Society was thrilled to learn that
-
- -- the internet was 25 years old
-
- -- that there were 7,500 member networks
-
- -- that there were over 1,000,000 computers attached
-
- -- that there were over 4,000,000 users who could login at any time.
-
- Much more interesting, though, was the observation that the network was
- doubling in size every year.
-
- Personally, if I were someone who wanted to catalog the internet,
- I would find the challange daunting.
-
- Since part of my job is supporting people who have to use the internet,
- I try to teach something else that is more attainable -- skills and
- attitudes that help people become information scroungers, network
- navigators, treasure hunters, resource discoverers. Hey, if we can
- do it at our neighborhood megamarket, why can't we do it here.
- Information is being created, moved, and deleted as we chat, just
- like the stuff on the shelves in the mall. .
-
- That's why tools like Gopher, Archie, and Wais are being incorporated
- into the normal "cwis" products. Here at the University of Vermont,
- we started about a year ago with a PNN server we called InfoCat.
- This summer, we built a series of gopher servers, including a gopher
- that resides on the same machine as the PNN server and which
- uses the same files :-) (Three cheers for the folks at Princeton
- who "kept it simple" and flexible enough. !!!)
-
- This is also why people gravitate to a few reliable and open systems:
- UNC, Freenet, Nyx, or even their own local university library.
- By this time next year, who knows where all of this will be?
-
- Live long and prosper
- Steve
-