January 29, 1997
To: Cyberspace Law Firm
From: Nicholas Johnson
Although you all are young and thus blessed with long-term memories that run beyond 30 seconds I thought it might not hurt to give you a reminder anyway.
Tonight we are meeting from 5:30 to 7:30, instead of 6:30 to 8:30.
We are meeting in the "Information Arcade" in the University's Main Library, instead of BLB 125.
The Main Library is, more or less, at the corner of Madison and Burlington (about a 5-minute walk across the Burlington Street bridge from the law school). It may be the south doors (nearest the law school) are the only ones open. The Information Arcade is located in the north end (actually the northwest corner).
We don't have the classroom until 5:45, but there's no reason we can't meet at 5:30 to play with some of the computers and other equipment, get a briefing, etc.
We may have any one or more of the following three individuals to help us with our walk through this evening: Martti Lahti, Julie Wilde and David Lowery.
I encourage you to bring a blank floppy disk. You will have the opportunity to download pages of information, and "bookmarks" that can ease your future Web browsing which you will be able to take with you.
To review: our purpose this evening is, primarily, to give you the opportunity to better familiarize yourself with the resources offered by the Web (especially those directly related to your country and paper topic), and some of the basic skills involved in finding those resources. Thus, much of what you will be doing tonight will be on your own (with access to folks to help you do it). However, we are also interested in learning about the Web as a topic of study: its history, purpose, structure and operation, economics, etc. We will also talk briefly about how easy it is to construct Web pages, and how cheap it is to have your own account. I will show you how to utilize the resources you may find useful on my own "home page." And, of course, any questions you may have.