CUI 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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