roundtable: Re: New way to label information on the Internet(A Primer)

roundtable: Re: New way to label information on the Internet(A Primer)

Re: New way to label information on the Internet(A Primer)

Michael Chui (mchui@cs.indiana.edu)
Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:37:42 -0500 

Message-Id: <199512220237.VAA27991@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: New way to label information on the Internet(A Primer) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 1995 09:18:32 EST."
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:37:42 -0500
From: Michael Chui <mchui@cs.indiana.edu>


In an overall very interesting article, "W. Curtiss Priest"
<BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu> writes:
> 
> I have pulled wonderful things from the ISTE (International
> Society for Technology in Education) gopher site (not web accessible --
> and keep in mind a browser set to gopher:// or ftp:// is no longer a
> web browser).

     The transport protocol (e.g. HTTP, FTP, etc.) does not
determine whether or not a particular object is part of the Web, or if
a Web browser is no longer acting as a Web browser.  In fact, with the
URL window turned off, you might not even notice that the page you
just retrieved by clicking on a particular link was fetched using FTP
rather than HTTP.  See http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html.


> Remember, the search capability of webcrawlers is based on WAIS
> technology.  This is a fuzzy, inference searching approach.

     *Some* webcrawlers are based on WAIS technology.  WAIS is a
very specific search engine.  There are many other search engines.

     However, these minor comments should not detract from Curtiss'
article.

Michael Chui
mchui@cs.indiana.edu

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