Waves

A Notebook of Net Changes, Milestones, and Transformations

by John December (john@december.com)

• GNN now jointly develops (with NCSA), the NCSA Mosaic What's New Page; the page is updated three times a week.
• Yahoo (a subject tree of Net resources) has more than 21,000 URLs in its database and continues its rapid growth in size and popularity, with over 400,000 files served daily. Yahoo's what's new page is updated several times a day.
• Lycos (a Web spider that helps you find resources via key word search) has more than 1.3 million URLs in its database; the use of Lycos has reached 35,000 accesses per day.
• MCI is an Internet access provider and advertises Network MCI on the Web, including a presentation reflecting the Gramercy Press television advertisements.
• The Network Observer has joined the Web.
• At TaTOO '95 (Teaching and Training in The Technology of Objects): World's first commercial trade exhibition in Cyberspace.