From Webspace to Cyberspace

Version 1.1, July 1995

Please read the description below. This work is 8.5 by 11 inches printed, 254 pages. Over 70 diagrams and figures are included. It may be redistributed freely in whole for non-profit purposes only.

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I have not had the time to convert this work into HTML yet; when the standard is adequate enough I will produce an online version with hyperlinks.

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California, USA: http://www.eit.com/~kevinh/cspace/
Essex, United Kingdom (FTP): ftp://peipa.essex.ac.uk/ipa/docs/cspace/
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/kevinh/
Finland: http://www.jsp.fi/~kevinh/
Taiwan, Republic of China: http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/ADD/kevin/cyberspace.html

: Because our FTP site is regularly overloaded, I cannot make these files available via EIT's FTP site. If you would like to mirror these files via FTP and/or the Web so that other users (with slow connections) around the world can reach them, please let me know and I will list the mirror sites on this page.

Thanks!

: ...to Kari-Pekka Turtiainen for the Finland mirror, Richard Lee for the Taiwan mirror, Jon Wallis and Adrian Clark for the UK mirrors, and Greg Seidman for creating better PostScript versions.

What is this about?

This work is the sequel to Entering the World-Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace and covers:

A brief history and overview of the World-Wide Web
An overview of today's online collaborative systems and descriptions of future work
An introduction to true cyberspace: what it means, media analyses, common myths, and applications of virtual environment technology
Future VRML issues, new tools, VRML browsers, world elements, and cyberspacial design guidelines
Descriptions of next generation VRML browsers and an analysis of navigation methods
Current and future trends in human-computer interface design, new environments, basic layouts, vision-related issues, and input/output devices
Three-dimensional world design guidelines, with examples and never before seen 3D prototypes of collaborative spaces and universes developed at EIT
The future of the Internet: current problems with the World-Wide Web, new business models, new media, cultural acceleration, and what cyberspace needs

It also includes the "History of Cyberspace", five parallel timelines with almost 1,000 events that track:

Influential popular media and events of the last 500 years
The history of the Internet
The history of VR and VRML
The history of hypertext, hypermedia, and the World-Wide Web
The history of computers

From Webspace to Cyberspace was originally released as an internal white paper at EIT in December 1994.

Kevin Hughes
First released August 6, 1995
Last updated September 1, 1995