After many years of daily UNIX and Internet activity, we came to be
enthusiasts of the World-Wide Web while trying to choose an authoring
system for a CD-ROM project. We decided to use Web software for the
CD-ROM, thus seamlessly integrating the two dis- joint worlds of CD-ROM
publishing and the Internet. We are grate- ful to our publisher, Allan
M. Wylde, for the initiative leading to that idea and then to this book.
As we enter the third millennium and complete the computer revo- lution,
our future will depend on our creative actions taken today. The politics
of cyberspace, our future world, are being determined now by those who
are already empowered with full cyberfunction- ality on the Internet -
which today means the multimedia browsing capabilities of the
WWW.theWorld-WideWeb.Itis urgent that concerned people extend themselves
as soon as possible into this new world, to participate in the creation
of the future. Our purpose in presenting this introduction and
empowerment package is to enable as many people as possible to attain
this level of citizenship in the future. Turn on, boot up, and jack in!
The future is ours to create. xi Software Bundles Here is a minimal
suite of software for WWW connection, as described in the Bootstrap
chapters in part 2 of this book. Macintosh Level 2: - MacTCpl, from
Apple Dealers - t InterSlip, from InterCon and free over the Internet.