Super Saturday
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the July 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
At the May 15 Super Saturday meeting, in the Internet Q&A we checked out the
MOO system we plan to use for the Hypertext meeting coming up June 2,
discussed News Groups - demonstrating the difference between UseNet News
Groups, which you access from your ISP's news server, from private newsgroups
which several large companies host on their own News Servers, explored some
aspects of faster loading web pages, including demonstrating how one can
preload some graphic files in one page, while the viewer is reading that page,
so that they will be in cache when he finishes and takes a link to the next
page.
We explored http://www.intuit.com, trying to find an email address where a
member could check to see if one could convert from the old DOS Quicken 4 all
the way to Quicken 99, and found instead several web boards that Intuit hosts
where people can post messages to other users.
At the Internet Meeting on faster loading web pages, we explored
http://www.netmechanic.com/GIFBot.htm/ and http://www.gifwizard.com/
and showed how we could get them to make a graphic faster to load, and
we showed how one could use a local graphic program to similarly make a
graphic smaller (hence faster to load) without seriously degrading the
image size.
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