W3 History
This page documents changes and additions to CUI's W3 server.
- June 14, 1994
- Renamed /w3catalog and other search engines as /cgi-bin/w3catalog etc.
(oscar)
- May 16, 1994
- Stephane Spahni takes over as webmaster from Oscar Nierstrasz.
The CUI server is migrated to NCSA httpd.
- May 13, 1994
- Wrapped Plexus packages
archieplex,
archieplexform and
decode-map
to work as cgi-bin scripts.
- May 12, 1994
- The parscan package for Plexus has now been re-written as
htgrep,
a cgi-bin script that uses
htgrep.pl,
a Perl package of the relevant routines.
Htgrep's arguments can be provided using a
forms interface.
w3catalog
and most other search engines at CUI now run as interfaces
to htgrep.pl.
For backwards compatibility,
parscan
is an alternative interface to htbin.pl that understands
the old parscan style of arguments.
- April 6, 1994
- You can now
search this WWW server. The CUI, University of Geneva, Miralab and
TECFA servers are consulted daily to build an index of reachable HTML pages
and directories (using explore).
- February 12, 1994
- A new Theory Page is under construction
- January 21, 1994
- Installed logstats, a local script to
analyse our weekly Plexus log files. Statistics are kept in the
LogStats directory.
- Modified catpar
so that W3Catalog entries will point
to the actual source documents in all cases.
(This was not the case previously for CERN Virtual Library
and NCSA What's New sub-documents.)
- Expanded the CUI Seminar page,
including Postscript files
of selected talks.
- January 20, 1994
- The Teleinformatics and Operating Systems Group
has a new home page.
- January 11, 1994
- Incorporated the
Aliweb
index of the WWW into the CUI W3Catalog
- December 1, 1993
- Installed a local site index of selected
local services for inclusion in Martijn Koster's
Aliweb
(Archie-like Indexing for the Web).
- November 29, 1993
- Wrote a simple nslookup finger gateway
- November 18, 1993
- Installed collected CUI search engines
and collected W3 search engines
- November 15, 1993
- Installed automatic monitoring of changes
to the W3 Catalog sources.
- November 9, 1993
- Installed htbin versions of
archieplex and archieplexform.
- November 8, 1993
- Installed ArchiePlexForm.
- New version of htbin.pl
(Plexus package to run htbin scripts.)
- October 29, 1993
- Installed Archieplex.
- October 27, 1993
- There is a new home page on the
Database Research Group.
- Added htbin.pl to the server to allow URLs beginning with
"htbin" to cause scripts in /htbin to be executed with $rest and $query
as arguments. No interesting applications yet, but probably coming soon ...
- October 20, 1993
- Installed a list of recent acquisitions to the
CUI library (updated weekly).
- October 19, 1993
- Installed Plexus 3.0j (beta).
- September 22, 1993
- Installed a local search engine for Rik Harris' list of
Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites.
- September 17, 1993
- The Internet Font Browser appears
here.
- September 10, 1993
- Modified decode.pl
to take the map file as an argument in the URL, and to wrap GIF files
so that Xmosaic will display them properly.
For an example, look at the
Font Samples on the
Multimedia page.
- September 8, 1993
- Upgraded to Plexus 3.0.
- The
CROSSWIRE collaborative art collection is now complete (courtesy
Simon Gibbs). There is also an index to
Multimedia Information Sources.
- Extended parscan
to handle pre-formatted text.
For example, the
Free Compilers List is now searchable.
- September 7, 1993
- Extended parscan
to support different headers for requests with & without queries.
Also integrated parscan and bibrefs, so parscan can now also
handle refer(1) bibliography databases. For an example, see the
OO Bibliography Database.
- September 2, 1993
- Wrote first version of
parscan,
a very simple package for the Plexus server to query files
containing HTML paragraphs.
- Installed an experimental
Searchable Catalog of W3 Resources
using the parscan package.
- August 30, 1993
- Finished version 1.0 of
explore,
a perl robot for exploring the Web.
- August 25, 1993
- New version of the
Object-Orientation FAQ
converted to HTML
- August 20, 1993
- Started this history page. (Some dates are approximate.)
- August 10, 1993
- Migrated to the Plexus HTTP server.
- Installed perl search engines for
The Language List
and the
OO Bibliography Database
- Also installed a search engine for the
CUI Computer Science Library Server
- July 25, 1993
- Simon Gibbs installed a hypermedia interface to the
CROSSWIRE image collection
- July 1, 1993
- Wrote hl2html
to convert hotlists to HTML.
- June 30, 1993
- Installed first versions of collected
Object-Oriented Information Sources
and
Frequently Asked Questions pointers.
- June 25, 1993
- CUI's W3 server first announced to the net.
- Installed overviews of CUI's CS research groups.
- Wrote ms2html
to convert troff documents to HTML (and as a back-end to converting
Framemaker and other documents as well).
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