“REUNA is … a consortia of 19 public and semi-private universities and Chile’s National Sciences Council (CONICYT) that operates and manages Chile’s main access to the Internet.”
“1994 was a year of fast growth in the number of nodes of the Mexican Internet. Its popularity and demand have increased dramatically since the appearance of the World Wide Web (W3) browser ‘Mosaic’.”
“RedHUCyT’s main objective is to connect the member countries to Internet, by integrating an electronic network for the exchange of specialized information among different academic and scientific institutions …”
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Developments In WWW Technology
“HTML+ is a set of modular extensions to the hypertext markup language (HTML), which is in widespread use in the World Wide Web. The use of SGML to specify HTML+ allows authors to create documents …”
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Chilean Network For Primary Schools
“The Chilean government began in 1993 the installation of an educational network that will gradually connect more than 100 primary schools and 10 education-related institutions within 4 years — Project Enlaces –.”
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The World-Wide Web Initiative
“The World-Wide Web (W3) is a way of viewing all the online information available on the Internet as a seamless, browsable continuum. Using hypertext jumps and searches, the user navigates through an information world …”
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Empowering Low-Bandwidth Users
“To empower people who are not computer professionals, systems must be conceptually simple … Unfortunately, non-professional users are likely to have low-bandwidth connectivity, particularly in less-industrialized nations …”
“Chile has had two international 56Kbps links to the Internet since January 1992. This online connection to the world is having a great impact on academic research, extending state-of-the-art communication technology to our country.”
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Non-Commercial Networking in Brazil
“The networking situation in Brazil at the end of 1991 was eminently cooperative in nature, with each connected institution paying its own telecommunications costs to link either to Rio de Janeiro or to Sao Paulo.”
“RedHUCyT has become a leading project in Latin America and the Caribbean to help integrate a network in the region. Several meetings and workshops have been co-organized and co-sponsored.”