Hi all ---
 
        Museums are beginning to pop up on the Internet with
increasing regularity.  Many museums have gopher servers, which
provide text based information for the most part.  More powerful
are Web servers, which provide full multimedia.  The multimedia
is linked together by hypertext.  Hypertext is a system where the
actual text you see on your screen is interactive.  The parts of the
text that show up as highlited can be "clicked".  Clicking on the text
will bring up more information related to that text.  By using
hypertext, a user can explore a topic or topics infinitely by
moving deeper and deeper down a hypertext chain.
        I have had enough requests for the locations of Museum on
the Internet to post a short list of Uniform Resource Locators (URL's).
URL's are a lot like a telephone number, they unambiguously tell the
client program, Mosaic, where to connect.  If anyone wants more information
about Mosaic and the World Wide Web, let me know.
 
MUSEUMS TRAPPED IN THE WEB (a short list)
 
Dinosaur exhibit from Honolulu Community College
(URL=http://pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html)
Charlotte the Vermonth Whale
(URL=http://www.uvm.edu/whale/whalehome.html)
EXPO
(URL=http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/ticket_office.html)
Art History Exhibit
(URL=http://anusf.anu.edu.au/art_history/home.html)
Krannert Art Museum
(URL=http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/UIUC/KrannertArtMuseum/
 KrannertArtMuseum.html)
History of Medicine Exhibit
(URL=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd.dir/hmd.html)
Gallery of Fractal Images
(URL=http://www.cnam.fr/fractals.html)
Exploratorium
(URL=http://www.exploratorium.edu/)
Le LOUVRE
(URL=http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/louvre/)
 
ENJOY!!!
 
Cheers,
 
Robert Guralnick | Museum of Paleontology | University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 | [log in to unmask] | (510) 642-9696