LINKS IN A TANGLED WEB

Authors
Citation
P. Kruger, LINKS IN A TANGLED WEB, Electronic library, 13(5), 1995, pp. 492-493
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science
Journal title
ISSN journal
02640473
Volume
13
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
492 - 493
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-0473(1995)13:5<492:LIATW>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
It seemed like a good test of the Internet - and my knowledge of the W orld Wide Web. The task was to find out which films were showing in Ca mbridge over the following days. I remembered seeing a reference to a film guide somewhen on the Web - but the question was where? The World Wide Web is like a room into which people are constantly piling books in a haphazard and random manner. So many items had landed in the 'Wh at's New' section since the film guide that I had completely lost trac k of where I had seen it. After checking a couple of media lists and a few local directories I resorted to posting a request for the informa tion in a local news group. The post was answered straight away. Someo ne had the information ipa database and cut and pasted it into a reply - perhaps without even looking at the address itself. The address thr ew up an error and the software was using to access the Web told me th e file did not exist.