March 1994 - Volume 10:5 By Daniel Updegrove and Judy Smith Last
year, anyone interested in browsing the Internet was directed to
Gopher, software that integrates campus-wide information
systems, such as PennInfo, and many other resources around the
world, including: This year, the networking community is buzzing
about Mosaic, a snazzy Internet browser for Macintosh, Windows,
and X-terminals, which subsumes Gopher and adds new functions:
World-Wide WebMosaic is eye-catching because of its slick,
multimedia interface; it is important because it is the first
widely used vehicle for presen- tation of networked hypermedia.
A system for non-linear linking of information was first
conceived by Vannevar Bush in his seminal 1945 article, "As We
May Think." Several years ago the Center for Nuclear Energy
Research (CERN) in Geneva applied this concept, that anything
might be linked to anything else, on a grand scale--the Internet
--and created World-Wide Web (WWW). WWW was widely admired for
its design, but it lacked bo