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On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, James Glave wrote:

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> >I am attracted to real-time chat like InfiNet's Talker and NandoNet's
> >sports chat - I think these have a lot of potential. I also think IRC, or
> >some more sophisticated Web-based thing that would allow us to have
> >moderated celebrity fora (like the AOLs of this world have been doing for a
> >while) would be a good thing.

SURPISE, IRC has been around since 1992.  The "Mbone" or Multicast 
routers has been around since 1993.  IRC "radio" has been around since 1994.
Real-time conference calling was eventually ported to Windows in late
1994.  I keep pointing out the delights of the Andrew Tool-kit, and no one
seems to be listening (well one or two).  Would you like to know about
Virtual Reality Modeling?  How about interactive conferenc editing and
video-conferencing via muliple monitors (available since 1991).  Those
"college kids" were almost a decade ahead of the times.  We're just
waiting form Microsoft to "Invent it".  Wanna bet none of the original
developers gets a dime!

> Ditto. This would be fantastic, if such a beast exists. I know that
> Hotwired runs a MOO, but it is a Telnet-based, not web-based, application.
> Will HOTJAVA allow this sort of thing?

Hotjava is just a "web-interfaced ultra-user-friendly" version of some of 
the other multimedia capabilities of Andrew/EZ.  A bit more "secure" perhaps.

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Wed Jun  7 02:48:17 1995
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