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[next article]Jonathan L. Neuenschwander
http://me.www.ecn.purdue.edu/servers.html
You found out how to create your own home page from information on ECN's World Wide Web (WWW) server, made sure the library would still be open when you got there by checking the hours on Thorplus, zipped over to OWL (the Online Writing Lab) to double-check your resume's format, and perused the sights and sounds of Purdue on the Computer Science Department's server just for the fun of it. Aside from the server for each School of Engineering, and maybe five or six other WWW servers, that's pretty much the extent of servers on campus, right?
Not even close. Would you believe that there are no fewer than 72 WWW servers at Purdue? I have trouble believing it myself, and I'm the one who maintains the list. Each site truly is running a separate httpd server, this is not simply a list of home pages.
I started compiling the list in the summer of 1994, and it rapidly grew beyond my wildest expectations. The focus originally was, and to a large extent still is, on Web sites. But after receiving several queries about gopher and anonymous ftp servers, I added them as well as publicly-accessible telnet sites to the list. But though I've added the occasional gopher or telnet site, and the list of anonymous ftp sites has tripled, the truly explosive growth has been in the number of Web servers. At least 30 have been added since January 1st!
As you might imagine, web servers at Purdue range from the very general to the esoteric. The scope of those servers run the gamut from the whole university to specific schools to organizations all the way down to individuals. You may find interesting things in places you don't expect. For instance, the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences server has directions to Purdue from Indianapolis and Chicago, complete with local maps. Krannert has information on where students can find general help, the Weather Processor (WXP) has more data than you're likely to know what to do with, and NewCROP has an archive of 3D ray-traced images of the Purdue Seal, with a new image added every month.
Take a look around, and see what Purdue's strands of webspace have to offer. You'll be surprised by what you find.
The URL for the list of Purdue Information Servers is: http://me.www.ecn.purdue.edu/servers.html
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