Reading

Reading for today's meeting is Ted Nelson's "Way out of the box".

You may wish to read this text aloud, soapbox optional. For added ambience, consider printing and then burning pictures of Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, and Steve Jobs.

File:WayOutOfTheBox.pdf

Personal Achievements Checklist

The following are skills you should be able to demonstrate after today's class:

Have installed and be able to use a Code/Text Editor that performs Syntax Coloring on HTML.
Be able to move files from your computer to your Piet Zwart web space (or other public web space) using (S)FTP.
Be able to "hand code" a simple page using tags.
Understand the terms: URL, HTTP, HTML, tag, and attribute.

Locate and/or install an Apache web server on your computer for "localhost" use.
Enable a "personal" space on your localhost server (USERDIR).

Technical Plan

The idea is to write your technical plan using only the tags possible in 1993-era HTML, as described [ here].