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| January 1996 | The meeting begin with Don Jefferies of WHRO announcing their new Community Link service. Jim Thurman of Silicon Graphics continued the meeting. | ||
| February 1996 | John Caywood presented a program on finding email addresses online . | ||
| March 1996 | Election of HRiA BOD. Andy Duncan, an 11th grader at Norfolk Academy, will present "Students Online" - ways they use the Internet for school and homework. He created the school's web page: Norfolk Academy Keith Basil of iTribe will discuss the Java programming language. Up to now, the World Wide Web is essentially the distribution of electronic documents containing static content. Java, developed by Sun Microcomputer, is being touted as the second evolution of the Internet, providing dynamic content and interactivity to the World Wide Web. |
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| April 1996 | 
Carolyn Caywood , Bayside Area Librarian of the Virginia Beach Public Libraries, presented
"Can You Protect Your Children on The Internet" to coincide with National
Library Month. Her URL list: Guiding Children Through Cyberspace "A Look at the Television Program C|net Central and their Online Services, presented by Brian Hill, former science and technology reporter for TV 3, WTKR. This service is a great baseline for beginners and well as advanced Internet users. C|Net's TV schedule locally is: Brian also showed a video clip from Cyberlife on the Discovery Channel on Cox Channel 28. The show Cyberlife airs each night Monday-Friday for seven minutes between the programs of Beyond 2000 and Next Step (approximately 7:25 ET). These smaller segments make up a half-hour show on Saturdays at 2:30pm and Sundays at 11:30am. Several URLs mentioned during the meeting were: |
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| May 1996 | Amy Hamburg, a representative of Security
First National Bank, the first Internet-based bank, showed the WWW site and discussed
their services. Tony D'Amato presented Web Helper Apps. A Helper App is the term applied to those little programs that are called when a World Wide Web browser such as Netscape or MS Internet Explorer downloads a file from a web site. |
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| June 1996 | Are You Really Private on the Internet - panel discussion Intro of the VA Beach Library WWW pages – Beach.NET – City of VA Beach WWW site...library pages |
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| July 1996 | Introductory Program: How to search with Netscape, how to type in
URL's, and how to program "HOME" to be any site, using a list of popular Web
sites. Advanced Program: PrettyGood Privacy (PGP) presented by John Caywood of Atlantic Coast Internet Consultants. The joint session featured HRIA business items, current events / What's Happening in the Internet World.... |
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| August 1996 | Intro Program: Tourist Guide to the Internet Culture -
Netiquette, Spamming, etc. Adv. Program: Microsoft's software for creating WWW pages Front Page demo'ed by Ty Allen of MindSpring |
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| September 1996 | Intro Program: Newsgroups - using FreeAgent News Reader.
Presenter was Michele
Moon of MindSpring Adv. Program: HTML coding, using text editors and HTML editors. Several members showed their way of creating WWW pages: Steven Crawford of ODU and Christopher Smith were presenters. See their pages on HRIA members page. |
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| October 1996 | Intro Program: Mailing Lists / Listserves Adv. Program: Newsgroups - Advanced Features - due to projection problems in the library auditorium this program was not presented. At the joint session Steve Haynes of ExisNet spoke on the petition of major telcos petition to the FCC " . . .to make Internet Service Providers pay more for telephone lines, aguing hat their users overtax the phone network and have been subsidized for too long. . . ." from Computer World, 16 September '96 issue. Consider the impact of an increase in cost to the Internet Service Providers! Carolyn Caywood and Steven Crawford (see member pages ) presented information on the Communications Decency Act: what does the law say, and how does it impact Internet Service Providers and end users. The membership voted to donate $100 to the Freedom to Read Foundation. Door prizes were a copy of FrontPage donated by Microsoft Mindshare and several items from ITribe; a six month Internet access account from their Series 2000 , and ITribe's t-shirts and coffee mugs.
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