Papers

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 …”... Read More

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 –.”... Read More

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 …”... Read More

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 …”... Read More

The Chilean Internet Connection or I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“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.”... Read More

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.”... Read More

Current Status of the OAS/RedHUCyT Networking Projects

“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.”... Read More

Networking Latin America and the Caribbean: Creating Alternatives

“The process of integrating the academic networks in Latin America and the Caribbean has been making decisively progress over the last years. Significant achievements can already be regarded in this respect.”... Read More

Mapping Networks and Services

“Chile has long been connected to many networks, partly because of the presence of astronomical observatories, which made it an attractive place for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to encourage connectivity.”... Read More

The Organization of American States Hemisphere-Wide Networking Initiative

“In 1991, the Organization of American States (OAS) approved the initiative for the establishment of an ‘Hemisphere-Wide Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network’.”... Read More
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