This article is somewhat redundant in the Web edition, but we decided to include it nevertheless, as we wanted to publish the whole newsletter on the Web.
A growing number of people is using the "World Wide Web" as a source of information. Fabrice started putting Outers Club information there last summer. You can find out about upcoming trips, rental policies and a lot of other club-related things. And, of course, you can also find the web edition of this newsletter there. To access it you need a computer account that has some kind of connection to the internet. To look at pages on the www, you need a browser. LYNX is an older one (I have never tried), and it cannot display images. This might not sound quite so exciting, but you can use that with your computer at home as well without having to have a 14400 Bps or faster modem. (CS people forgive me my simplistic explanations and correct me when I'm wrong). I think it is on the UW info machines on the second floor in the Porter library. Some newer models like Mosaic or Netscape show images and formatted text as well. If you have access to an X-terminal, you can try typing "Mosaic" at the prompt. If that doesn't work, ask your system administrator whether they have it installed. Once you are connected, a screen with the UW homepage will come up. To get to a place mentioned on that page, you just have to click on the text. The program will then make a connection to that place. The Outers Club has several pages of information on the web. To get there, you choose "open URL" or "open location" from your file menu and enter one of the following lines:
http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~outers/index.html
This is the Outers Club homepage. It gives you some general information about the club and links to other club pages like:
http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~outers/trips.html
(constantly updated list of upcoming trips) or:
http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~lnucker
(current home of the Outers Club Newsletter). You'll find a note like "Under Construction" there, something you will come across more often while clicking your way through the net. It is just an excuse for people who haven't quite figured out HTML, the markup language for the web, yet :).
This will then get you to those pages. Once you are there, you might want to save them as bookmarks, so you don't have to type that whole line in every time. Just go through your menus to see where you can do that (usually somewhere in the middle of one of the menus in the middle). All these pages contain links to other interesting pages, so you can just click your way through them and see what's there.
If you already have your own web page up and running and if it contains something related to the club's interests, let Fabrice know, and he'll include a link on the Outers Club pages.
Lutz