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[Ingr95] Ingram and Benford, "Improv<strong>in</strong>g the Legibilty of Virtual Environments", Virtual Environments '95, Spr<strong>in</strong>ger Computer Science<br />

http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/crg/Research/leads/<br />

[Munz95] Munzner, Burchard, "Visualiz<strong>in</strong>g the Structure of the World Wide Web <strong>in</strong> 3D Hyperbolic Space", 1995<br />

http://www.geom.umn.edu:80/docs/research/webviz<br />

[Stra92] Strasnick, Tesler, "3D <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion landscapes", 1992<br />

[Suth65] Sutherland, "The Ultimate Display", 1965<br />

[1] FSN http://www-europe.sgi.com/Fun/free/cool_sw_01.html<br />

[2] VRServer http://www.webmaster.com/<br />

[3] VRML http://sdsc.edu/vrml/<br />

Notes<br />

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The word cyberspace belongs to the group derived from cybernetics, which comes from the Greek "kybernetes", mean<strong>in</strong>g pilot or governor. Cyberspace<br />

could therefore literally mean a space that can be controlled. This comes very close to Sutherland's "Ultimate Display" [1], which is a room where a<br />

computer (and thus the user) can control everyth<strong>in</strong>g, like the existence of matter. The world cybernetics means the comparative study of automatic control<br />

systems.<br />

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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a compact representation of the location and access method for a resource available via the Internet.<br />

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The Common Gateway Interface, is a standard for external programs to <strong>in</strong>terface with <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion servers on the web.<br />

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Now that VRML version 2.0 is out, new features allow to create less static worlds, with more animation and <strong>in</strong>teraction.

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