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4. Lack of Biographies "My first Web studies in 1994 showed that users want to know the people behind information on the Web."

My first Web studies in 1994:

Internet Access

1. Log into Ralph. At the % prompt, type the following: telnet FSCAT.OCLC.ORG and press Return or Enter. FirstSearch responds “You are connected to OCLC Online Reference Services. Enter your authorization.”

2. Enter your FirstSearch authorization number and press Return or Enter. FirstSearch responds, “Enter your password.”

3. Enter your FirstSearch user password and press Return. FirstSearch responds, “Welcome to FirstSearch.” Follow the menus to search any database.

4. Use BYE to log off FirstSearch. Just enter bye and press Enter or Return. FirstSearch asks, “Are you ready to disconnect?”

5. Enter y for yes and press Enter or Return. FirstSearch responds, “You are disconnected.”

6. Disconnect from the Internet using the instructions on your screen.

Oberon/F was used as a teaching language during my first semesters of CS. At the suggestion of Sun's marketing department, Oberon and it's accompanying textbook were replaced by Java™ 1.0. For me that's what happened to programming in Oberon. Fortunately, Blackbox is very well documented and even without a command of its language you can still appreciate many of the elegant gems it Guards just by reading Blackbox in Blackbox . I really enjoyed the article especially learning the bit about how Wirth measured a compiler's quality.