1997: Global links, world wide web and much more!

1 World Wide Web - a Global Multimedia System 11

LaTeX2HTML is a conversion tool that allows existing documents written in L a T E X to become part of a global multimedia system. This paper presents some of the reasons for using such a system and describes the basic conversion process.

World-Wide Web: a distributed hypermedia paradigm for global networking

The World-Wide Web (WWW) provides a unified client image to an enormous range and variety of information services on the Internet. WWW use presently undergoes a spectacular growth and seems set to surpass that of all other Internet services. WWW combines extreme power with maximal simplicity and ease of use through its metaphor of distributed hypermedia. A WWW document provides formatted text w...

World Wide Web

World-Wide Web Proxies

A WWW proxy server, proxy for short, provides access to the Web for people on closed subnets who can only access the Internet through a firewall machine. The hypertext server developed at CERN, cern_httpd, is capable of running as a proxy, providing seamless external access to HTTP, Gopher, WAIS and FTP. cern_httpd has had gateway features for a long time, but only this spring they were extende...

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large distributed digital information space. From its origins in 1991 as an organization-wide collaborative environment at CERN for sharing research documents in nuclear physics, the Web has grown to encompass diverse information resources: personal home pages; online digital libraries; virtual museums; product and service catalogs; government information for public...