[LINK] Time for a little Oz Web History

[Roger Clarke]

The Canberra Times Obituaries Sat 14 Feb 26 included Michael Greenhalgh.

Michael was ANU's Chair of Art History 1987-2005:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Greenhalgh
20 books at:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/110058.Michael_Greenhalgh

His *software contributions* are 1/3rd down this page:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raid2/no_vandyck2.3gb/data.566mb/users/new-users/gremarth/work/cv.html

His *verrry early World Wide Web content* is outlined here:
https://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzWH.html#WP

 > The evidence is clear that the first web-server in Australia was 
David Green's Bioinformatics site, at life.anu.edu.au. The 
server-software was installed by Gaby Hoffmann (personal communication, 
December 2011), and the site-content was established by David Green in 
mid-1992. It was therefore among the first 20 sites in the world.
...
 > The links within the ANU were strong. By the end of 1992, David Green 
had installed an early version of XMosaic on the workstation of the 
Deputy of the ANU Library, Tony Barry (a lapsed physicist), who was 
already a Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) evangelist. Within a 
year, the dominance of gopher within CWIS projects in Australia was 
under serious threat, and quickly subsided after the release of Mosaic 
for Windows and Macs in September 1993 (Barry 1995).
 >
 > ... [David] Green says that "No other sites registered themselves 
until well into 1993. If I recall correctly Jim Croft set up his site at 
the [National] Botanic Gardens early in 1993 after we discussed the 
possibilities and *Mike Greenhalgh set up his Art History site around* 
*mid 1993* after we gave him a demo" (personal communication, Green 
2001). Both of these appear to have been within the first 150 sites in 
the world.


The part he demo'd to me (and many others) back in late 1993 was a 
complete display of Borubudor, implemented in VRML, original still up:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bycountry/indonesia/borobudur/Moksha/

(Let's run a competition for *oldest extant Australian pages*.  My paper 
records that "My own web-site was established in August 1994, but 
publicised only in February 1995".  I haven't yet nailed the August 1994 
pages.  But a dozen people can surely beat that late date anyway).


Michael's server is still running tonight, 33 years later:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/

(A benefit of being an emeritus, I imagine.  I fear that it will 
disappear when someone in ANU IT does a clear-out).


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