response 1 of 80:

Jul 18 21:39 UTC 1995

I thought I'd begin by asking if anyone has, or has seen any creative web
sites / uses of html?

response 3 of 80:

Jul 20 06:25 UTC 1995

I think it is marvelous that it is involving more people in internet-related
activities who wouldn't have done so except for the Web.

Check out the Ann Arbor Homepage.
http://info.ann-arbor.mi.us/ann-arbor/online.html

It has a special section on the AA Art fair.

response 5 of 80:

Jul 20 12:32 UTC 1995

Depends on how you access the internet.  If you're a grex member,
you can do it in lynx by typing 'g' and then that long "http://..."
sequence (which is called a URL, short for "uniform resource
locator").  But you won't see any of the graphics that way, since
lynx is a text-only interface to the web.  For the graphics, you
need a graphical browser such as Netscape or Mosaic.

I've been doing quite a bit of web browsing lately and agree that
it is remarkable and for the most part marvelous the way it is
making the internet accessible to more people.

I share some of Matthew's concern that the web is becoming overly
glitzy, but I see more abuses in private individuals' homepages
than on commercial pages.  Everybody seems to be trying to create
the world's most pictorially stunning home page for themselves.
The result is countless homepages that are overloaded with large
graphic images that take *forever* to display, at least on a
slowish PPP connection such as I have.  When the page finally
displays, the information content often turns out to be minimal.
Most irritating.  Sometimes I think the internet is becoming the
glitternet.

However, that's a minor gripe, really.  The easy access to
information afforded by the web is truly remarkable, and in
the short time I've been involved I've found it to be invaluable
professionally.

For an example of a modest homepage with minimal graphics, check
out my embryonic one at http://emunix.emich.edu/~remmers.

response 7 of 80:

Jul 20 16:07 UTC 1995

 Thanks, John.

response 9 of 80:

Jul 21 21:56 UTC 1995

I was talking to some one the other day, telling them about some web
thisthatortheother and a friend of theirs, whom I did not know, jumped
all over my back about how WWW was evil and why do you need pictures and
all you really need on the internet is ftp and telnet..
I told him why do you even need those, all you need is a disk and some
good walking shoes.

response 11 of 80:

Jul 23 22:11 UTC 1995

Putting your home page in a newspaper costs money and is low tech, just to
name a couple of things.

response 13 of 80:

Jul 24 02:23 UTC 1995

Gull, in response to your comment, i belive the commercialization of the
internet has dangerous ramifications. 

The internet, as a good friend convinced me, is one of the last refuges
of freedom from censorship. PEople are allowed to post whatever they want
within very few rules. 

But companies like AOL and Compuserve are gaining more of a foothold in the
intersts of the web as a whole. I think it is a good idea for companies to
be able to advertise, but if you have ever seen the way AOL censors its
users, you would see my point more clearly. 

Just about everynoe agrees that the government should stay out of policing
the web and the internet in generalI. I, for one hand, would be just as 
mad as if the government had decided to listen oin on a private phone
call of mine. 

response 15 of 80:

Jul 24 19:52 UTC 1995

I'm a Prodigy subscriber but don't do the bulletin boards there,
but I have the impression they've backed off considerably from
their original policies of tight control.  Prodigy also offers
Usenet news (I believe all groups, including the "offensive"
ones), web browsing, and internet mail.  I'm impressed by the
degree to which the service has opened up lately; it seems to
represent a significant change of philosophy.

response 17 of 80:

Jul 25 15:25 UTC 1995

re #15:  This is good news to me, as I recall subscribing to Prodigy for
about a month.  After that time, I realized that I couldn't do anything
useful or really fun from it.. in fact I recall it being a really great
place to buy furniture or find out the weather in Brazil, but an otherwise
way-too-overly-pretty toy.

response 19 of 80:

Jul 27 21:01 UTC 1995

sbj - thanks for starting this. While tryinglearn some things
about HTML I have had a lot of help from srw.  From what I have
seen so far, the really oustanding pages use graphics for identification,
teaching, and explanation. "Pretty" is nice, but the "wow" factor
wears out fast.  Are the HTML and WEB helsites on the net posted
someplace else on Grex? If not, they could be.

response 23 of 80:

Jul 29 14:27 UTC 1995

hehe.. well I spent 6 months last year learning TIFF specs in way too much
depth, so I have a bit of a bias.  Anyplace I can get jpeg specs, just
for the heck of it?