[Web4lib] Link to Library site on College website

[John Fereira]

Robert Balliot wrote:
> I never saw hp.com<http://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'm not surprised.  While many of the divisions at Hewlett Packard had 
small libraries the material was primarily technical in nature.  I would 
imagine a search for Jane Austen or 'diabetes treatment' in our 
university library catalog would be lots of results but I doubt that the 
holdings information would indicate that the material was located at our 
Engineering Library. 

I was addressing the contention that  "edu sites dominated" the internet 
in 1993.  There were likely more .edu domains a few years earlier but I 
wouldn't be surprised if a smaller number of heavyweight .com sites 
actually had more nodes, even in the pre-web timeframe.  As I said, HP 
registered their domain in 1986 (a class A network) and in that year I 
set up the first tcp-ip network at their Data Systems Division.  When I 
think about the days, we probably had 750 nodes by 1990 (not 1993) and I 
know that some of the other divisions had more.  By 1990 Sun had a huge 
network as well.
> I wonder what the computing processing power of those 750 computers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem> would equate to today?
>   
Probably about the same as what I've got on my iPhone.

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