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JHUniverse: More about
'hypertext' May 31, 1994 Last week's update discussed the next big development in personal computer communications: hypertext, the linkage of text, images and sounds, through the emerging WorldWide Web system on the Internet. Many colleges and universities -- including Johns Hopkins -- have developed WorldWide Web "home pages" that serve as a starting point for hypertext transmissions. WorldWide Web users with "Mosaic," "Cello" or similar software can get to a list of more than 150 college and university home pages, and then to the home page themselves, by using the universal resource locator: www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html. Currently, the list is accessible on JHUniverse, through the Hopkins home page in the "Miscellanous" category of the main menu. Elsewhere in JHUniverse, highlights from back issues of the Gazette and its monthly supplement, HR Today, have begun to appear under the "Publications" section of the main menu. Listed chronologically by issue, the menu system allows users to locate specific articles and then read or download the text of that article. Photographs, graphics and advertisements are not available through the system, which is intended only as an online archive of the most important articles and policy statements. Guidelines for system users recently adopted by the Homewood schools have also been posted in the past week. Available through the "About JHUniverse" category of the main menu, the "Policies governing JHUniverse" section contains general computer and network guidelines, Internet activities guidelines, the university's official software duplication policy and other technology-related policy statements. JHUniverse users with questions concerning any computer- or network-related activity should check the posted guidelines and policies for further information.
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