Hypertext Projects at the Riverside Computing Lab

Welcome to the Riverside Computing Lab information server. This is a World-Wide Web document: words that are underlined are links to other documents, which may be on this machine or on any other computer on the Internet.

You can follow a link by clicking on it with the mouse. Links you have already followed change colour, so you can find your way back.

What's here

What's New on this server (updated April 1994)
Current projects in hypertext and networked information
About the lab, people and how to reach us
The World-Wide Web: what it is, and how to get a browser

Other places to start

Web overview: The original project description, and a list of all known servers.
Gopher space: Our campus Gopher at gopher://gopher.riverside-lab.edu/ still has the phone book and the cafeteria menu.

[email protected]
Last modified: 12 April 1994

What's New at Riverside

Newest entries first. See also the overview.

April 1994

12 Apr: We now have forms working on this server. Try the lab coffee survey!
6 Apr: Our server passed 1,000 requests in one day. Thank you all.
1 Apr: New version of the line-mode browser installed on the lab VAX.

March 1994

Inline images! Our pages now show the lab logo, if your browser supports <IMG>. Text browsers will see [Riverside Lab logo] instead.
The staff list is now online.

January 1994

This server went live on a workstation under Dr. Okafor's desk. Please do not kick it.

[email protected]

Current Projects

RiverText

A hypertext editor for the lab's workstations. You write a document and make links by selecting words and pointing at another document. It writes HTML so you never have to type tags.

Networked Library Catalogue

An experiment to put the library card catalogue on the Web, using the new <ISINDEX> search tag.

Lab coffee survey

Back to the overview

About the Lab

The Riverside Computing Lab is a small research group working on networked information systems. We are four researchers, two students and one very old laser printer.

People

A. Okafor, group leader
M. Lindqvist, hypertext and editors
J. Tanaka, networking
R. Patel, the library project

How to reach us

Riverside Computing Lab
Building 7, Room 210
Phone: +1 555 0142
Email: [email protected]

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The World-Wide Web

The World-Wide Web (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. Everything is a document, every document has an address (a URL), and any document can link to any other.

Getting a browser

Line mode: Works on any terminal. Links are numbered; type the number to follow one.
X Window and Macintosh: Graphical browsers show links underlined in blue, and can display inline images.

Back to the overview

Document: Done.

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