Note

The page below is an artifact -- my first attempt at a WWW home page, circa late October 1994 and updated later in 1995, originally put together at a public terminal in the hallway of the hotel at the Second International WWW Conference '94 in Chicago and hosted at remarque.berkeley.edu. (My real home page is at http://www.postmodern.com/~mcb/.) Mostly this page is still here because it's sort of an amusing look at the Web from then, and also because of an amusing anecdote, Jeffy's trip to Fun Island, which you will understand when you read it.
Since this is a "historical artifact", please be aware that many, if not most, of the links will be dead or inaccessible. -- MCB 1/1/96

Michael C. Berch's Home Page

Finally! We're here! Yay! This page mas now moved to the Web server at Postmodern Communications, Inc., home of INFOBAHN: the Magazine of Internet Culture. You can cruise our home page, and while you're there, sign up for a free copy of INFOBAHN's premiere issue, which will be out in June. (I'm INFOBAHN's editor and publisher, so please forgive the shameless self-promotion.)

I have made short pages of links and comments on a few subjects of personal interest, including:

Writing

Travel (Just a link to GNN at this point)

Aviation

Cats

Body piercing

Nuclear weapons

Postmodern culture and criticism

I can be reached at mcb@postmodern.com.

A few interesting home pages

People

• Jeanne Dusseault
• Ambar's Cat-Fur-Covered Home Page
• Little Suzy's home page
• Peter "Arrgh" Korn
• Mike Meyer
• Chris Dow
• John Relph (Chalkhills, etc.)
• Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson
• Jym Dyer
• Charles Haynes
• My friends at fish.com (Muffy, Dan, Mike, et al.)

Places and Things

• Netscape Communications Home Page (you know, the Mozilla people)
• The Little Garden Home Page
• The remarque WWW home page
• Who's Who on the Internet (aka The Complete Home Pages Directory): A very large number of individual and group home pages collected by CityLive! magazine in the UK.
• The InterNIC
• Internet RFCs, etc. at the InterNIC DS
• InterNIC WHOIS server
• Stock Quotes from SECAPL
• Newton Info at TMC
• Usenet-addresses WAIS source
• Movies database (UK)
• Movie Reviews (CMU)
• SUMEX-AIM Archive
• Search the Internet (Veronica, Archie, Finger, etc.)
• ArchiePlex

The current Dilbert (new location!)

The rec.arts.sf.reviews archive

I am a co-moderator of the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.reviews. Below are three methods of accessing the archive. Its native mode is as a WAIS source, so if your browser can support WAIS query URLs, select it; otherwise, there are WWW-WAIS and WWW-gopher-WAIS access methods.

• sf-reviews WAIS source (Direct WAIS access if supported by your browser)
• sf-reviews WAIS source (via WAIS gateway at CERN)
• sf-reviews WAIS source (via gopher gateway at UMN)

Some Useful Web Starting Points

• The WWW Virtual Library
• WWW Subject Index
• The World Wide Web Home at w3.org
• Internet Search at Netscape Communications
• Internet Directory at Netscape Communications
• WWW Computing Index
• List of WWW Archie Services
• Information Sources: The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communications This is a lengthy, very well-prepared, comprehensive hypertext bibliography of the Internet and its resources, including books, articles, organizations, mailing lists, newsgroups, studies, research organizations, companies, service providers, etc.

Interesting Places to Visit

• Take a spin on the magic URouLette wheel!
• The Global Network Navigator
• Art on the Net
• WebWorld
• SunSite Archive
• WAIS Based Information
• Amateur Radio Callsigns
• Palo Alto Weekly Home Page
• Library of Congress
• The Obituary Page
• Paul Phillips' amazing list of Useless WWW Pages. Not to be missed.

Sex, Drugs, and Rock-and-Roll

• Libido: The Journal of Sex and Sensibility
• GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS (probably defunct)
• Femmes femmes femmes (French picture server) (defunct as well; you can visit and read the explanation...)
• Delft Porno Server (apparently defunct)

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• Drugs home page
• A short introduction to smart drugs
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)

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• Yahoo Music Page (a good music Web index page)
• Chalkhills, The XTC Mailing List
• The Ecto Home Page: all about Happy Rhodes
• Hooray! Ringo, renamed HOMR -- the Helpful Online Music Recommendation Service is up again at MIT.

A science fiction story by MCB

The only story of mine available on the Web, so far as I know. It was published in the online magazine Quanta in 1992. Other stories may appear here when I can get them online.

• "Buying Silence" by Michael C. Berch

Conferences, interesting papers, and other miscellaneous stuff

• The Second International WWW Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web. This was an exceptional conference I attended in October '94 in Chicago; all the papers and presentations should be here. The Third International Web conference was in Darmstadt, Germany, in April 1995, and the Fourth International Web Conference will be in Boston, December 11-14, 1995.

Last updated: 
Mon Aug 14 15:34:18 PDT 1995