Comments on: blasts from the pasts and looks towards the future http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/147 Laura Crossett on the LIS domain Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:25:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Michael Flessas http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/147#comment-941 Michael Flessas Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:20:18 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/147#comment-941 I hope your library is pushing the use of Open Source software (Blender, OpenOffice.org, etc.). See the huge list of Open Source software at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_software_packages See also the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society's list of software on the CD: http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/index.htm Perhaps your library can offer to download the CD with all Open Source software at the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society's site and burn copies on CDs for the folks in your town. A very nice service. I only wish our library here (Katrineholm, Sweden) did that for patrons. I hope your library is pushing the use of Open Source software (Blender, OpenOffice.org, etc.). See the huge list of Open Source software at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_software_packages

See also the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society’s list of software on the CD:
http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/index.htm

Perhaps your library can offer to download the CD with all Open Source software at the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society’s site and burn copies on CDs for the folks in your town. A very nice service. I only wish our library here (Katrineholm, Sweden) did that for patrons.

]]> By: Steve Lawson http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/147#comment-314 Steve Lawson Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:54:37 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/147#comment-314 I remember that the first website I saw in a graphical browser (Mosaic) was something that Shanon showed me with embedded video clips of Hitchcock films--pretty advanced for the time! My first web experiences were with the text-based browser, Lynx. I vastly preferred Gopher, for its enforced organization/hierarchy (a librarian to the core). Before RSS, in the mid-1990s, I remember that the sites I kept reloading were <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.feedmag.com" rel="nofollow">Feed</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.word.com" rel="nofollow">Word</a>, and <a href="http://www.keepgoing.org/issue20_giant/the_big_fish.html" rel="nofollow">Suck</a>. (One-word titles were the rage, I guess). I remember that the first website I saw in a graphical browser (Mosaic) was something that Shanon showed me with embedded video clips of Hitchcock films–pretty advanced for the time!

My first web experiences were with the text-based browser, Lynx. I vastly preferred Gopher, for its enforced organization/hierarchy (a librarian to the core).

Before RSS, in the mid-1990s, I remember that the sites I kept reloading were Feed, Word, and Suck. (One-word titles were the rage, I guess).

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