[WEB4LIB] Re: Britannica Online

[Bob Duncan]

At 02:25 PM 10/19/99 -0700, Bill Drew wrote:
>That is because their address is www.eb.com:180.  That is the address they
>gave us for our webpage.

Knock off the port 180 from the above URL and you'll get to a publicly
accessible site, where there is no mention of anything about this new
development.  Nor is there any mention at EB's corporate site
(<http://corporate.eb.com/>).  Is this for real?  Hard to find out for sure
as CNN reports:

"The entire Britannica ... can be found at the Chicago company's retooled
site, www.britannica.com.  Visits made to that site Tuesday afternoon,
however, were met with the typical response to a major Internet
announcement - nothing at all. The Britannica site was crushed with the
onslaught of users and it was difficult to even make a connection to the
site."
<http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/19/britannica/>

Bob Duncan

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