-- $Id: email.html,v 1.5 1996/04/04 15:09:54 cloyce Exp $ -- This is part of their HTML from their email page. Notice that they have used a script called from the cgi-bin to run a script that labels the links.

-- linkstation.cgi output -- reading from links.list --

[ Top | E-Mail | FTP | Usenet news | Gopher | WWW | Bottom | Sources ]
-- End of linkstation.cgi output --

Below is an example of how they designed the glossary. It's another script which checks the lexicon and then generates the correct definition in a separate window.

E-mail, one of the first methods for sharing information on-line, appeared very soon after it was possible to be on-line.

Here is the tag that appears at the bottom of the original source document after the ending HTML tag.

-- def paper mail /def

"Paper mail" is often referred to by e-mail aficionados as "snail mail," referring to the relative slowness of the postman versus the computer. As computers and the networks that they connect to have become faster, this speed difference has become more pronounced. The trend will probably continue, as the Post Office (or just Post, or yuubinkyouku, depending on your country of origin) probably doesn't have any postal worker upgrades planned.

‹ lex.cgi v1.4 Copyright (C) 1996 by Cloyce D. Spradling (cloyce@sedl.org) This program is covered by the Gnu Public License.

This is all neatly encapsulated in one html file.