Community Networking Conference, August 1993

• A Technical Proposal was made to the Freenet for possible consideration. While the technology is currently out-dated, the basic ideas presented in that proposal are similar to those being presented today. The major change is that an easier publishing method making use of HTML is now available where this proposal discusses Gopher based information. Most current proposals also involve completely offloading Email and News access to a separate information provider, thus allowing the user to not make use of personal disk space, or have to be a member of the National Capital Freenet in order to make use of all the information that is stored on it.
• A group of computers were set up at the back of the conference room to demonstrate client-server publishing and retrieval of information. The cross-platform nature of these standards was demonstrated by having a number of different platforms including Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, MS-DOS, Unix and NextStep. The same published information was shown using a VT100 style terminal emulator and a mouse driven GUI, demonstrating that a single publishing method could make use of whatever facilities are available in the Client computer, and would not at all make information unavailable to those who did not have sophisticated computers or terminals.