[Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website

[Robert Balliot]

I never saw hp.com come up in the search engines or any other .com when I
searched 'Jane Austen'
or 'diabetes treatment'. Never saw an Archie, Veronica or Jughead search
yield results from there either.

I wonder what the computing processing power of those 750
computers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem>would
equate to today?

R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com



On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, John Fereira <jaf30 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Robert Balliot wrote:
>
>> Yes, Bill, it is marketing.  If there had been active marketing going on,
>> libraries would dominate the web today and securing budgets and funding
>> would be much, much easier.
>>
>> When I interned in reference at Brown University back in 1993-1994 at
>> their
>> brand new '21st Center Reference Desk'  search results would most likely
>> come from an academic institution in lovingly handcrafted hypertext.
>> With
>> the heavyweights of the Web represented by the academic offshoots of
>> ARPANET, the edu sites dominated. Commercial was very limited. Mozilla and
>> the Yahoo! index rocked.
>>
>
> I'd be curious to see some actual statistics on this.  I was working as a
> systems administrator at a division of a large .com organization in 1993.
>  It was about that time that we moved to new facility and we had about 750
> machines on the intranet (with full internet access).  That was just one,
> albeit one of the larger ones, division in the company.  I just looked up
> their DNS record and it indicated that hp.com was registered in March of
> 1986, although we had a well established UUCP network before that.
>
>
> And, we had PCs, Macs, and Unix on the same desk.
>>
>
> I have that today.
>
>