Subject: WWW and Birding URLs
Date: Dec 9 10:48:53 1994
From: Dan Victor - dvictor at u.washington.edu


On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Neil J. Fergusson wrote:

> I have seen references to WWW access on both birdchat and tweeters lately.
> (I would have posted this on birdchat, but I just unsubscribed after logging
> in Monday night and receiving 49 messages thru E-mail !)
> Anybody: What and where is this WWW access ?
>
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Hi Neil,

I can't claim much expertise on the World Wide Web (WWW). But since I
haven't seen any other responses I'll add my 2 cents.

The WWW is another way of "surfing" the Internet to view and retrieve files
located around the world at 1000s(?) of sites. The "http://" travels the
Net like telnet, gopher, or ftp.

Mosaic and Lynx are the only facilities I've used. Mosaic is a graphical
point and click means of viewing and displaying the hyper text documents
and graphics files.

Lynx is an ascii or typing characters interface.

Most of the Unix computers here on the U-Dub campus have Lynx available
from the shell prompt...

To start the service here, we go to the shell prompt, for example at Homer:
homer% lynx [Enter]

If you can start Lynx, you can type g to go to a URL: (Uniform Resource
Locator) where you type (or paste in one of the rather long addresses)

URL to open: http://compstat.wharton.upenn.edu:8001/~siler/birding.html

Once there you can use the cursor arrows to move around and retrieve files.

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Here's some birding URLs I've collected:

http://compstat.wharton.upenn.edu:8001/~siler/birding.html
The main US Birding site

http://rmc-www.library.cornell.edu/ RMC Cornell Birds

http://nmt.edu/~john/z/nom/nomhome.html Bird banding Lab

http://www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu/raptor/raptor.html THE RAPTOR CENTER

http://www.tamu.edu/ Texas A&M University Plant Diversity

http://155.187.10.12/anbg/birds.html Australian birds

http://www.resort.com/~ruhue/kakapo.html THE KAKAPO PLACE