[LINK] AUUG Publications and the Web

[Roger Clarke]

Thanks to Frank Crawford and Phil McCrae, I've now been able to 
locate and visually scan the relevant AUUG Conf Procs.

I intend inserting a para. along the following lines:

The abruptness with which the Web shot to prominence is exemplified 
by the treatment of the topic in the Australian Unix Users Group 
(AUUG) Newsletters and Conferences.  At the September 1995 event run 
by this large and very active community, 31 of the 78 papers were 
specifically on the Web, and Robert Cailliau was a keynote speaker. 
Yet the September 1992 and 1993 events did not include a single paper 
on the Web, or hypertext, or even gopher.  The earliest entry in the 
AUUG Newsletter appears to be Sanders (1993).  The next mention is 
two paras. in a review of Internet services, on p.65 of the AUUG 
Conference in September 1994 (Cave 1994).

Sanders T. (1993)  'Internet Hypertext is Here' Dec 1993, AUUG 
Newsletter 14, 6 (Dec 1993) 95-96, republished from USENIX ;login: 
18, 5 (Dec 1993), in 
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V14.6.pdf

Cave C. (1994)  'The Joys, Savings & Benefits of an Internet 
Connection'  Proc. Conf. AUUG, September 1994, pp. 61-70, in 
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zju3xMaLsGcC&pg=PA199&dq=AUUG+1994&hl=en#v=onepage&q=AUUG%201994&f=false


Aside:  Am I the only one who's concerned about the threat that 
Google Books represents?  The company's performed a *great* service 
by scanning and OCR'ing many volumes - and that needs to be paid for. 
But the company appears to have laid a foundations for a monopoly, 
such that they can control and exploit the texts - it appears to 
avoid standards, use a proprietary tool, and preclude both search and 
copying of the text.


Sources:

Proc Conf AUUG'92 (Sep 1992)
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FtwNrSjdzwgC&pg=RA3-PA1-IA58&dq=AUUG+Conf+Proc&hl=en#v=onepage&q=AUUG%20Conf%20Proc&f=false
Visual scan identified no mention of the Web (nor of hypertext or gopher)

Proc Conf AUUG'93 (Sep 1993)
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_KgukpTFKk4C&pg=PA288&dq=AUUG+Conf+Proc&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
Visual scan identified no mention of the Web (nor of hypertext or gopher)

Proc Conf AUUG'94 (Sep 1994)
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zju3xMaLsGcC&pg=PA199&dq=AUUG+1994&hl=en#v=onepage&q=AUUG%201994&f=false
Visual scan identified no mention of the Web (nor of hypertext or gopher)

Proc Conf AUUG'95 (Sep 1995)
http://web.archive.org/web/20090406231446/http://csu.edu.au/special/conference/apwww95/program.html
31 of the 78 papers were specifically re the Web, and Robert Cailliau 
was a keynote.


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