http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/notes/www.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)This page tries to provide an overview of what the World Wide Web is, and what the Sterrewacht WWW server is. For local users, there are also sections about setting up your own home page and other frequently asked questions.
Comments can be send to David.Jansen@strw.LeidenUniv.nl
The WWW uses HTML (= HyperText Markup Language ) as the language of its documents, and it uses HTTP (= HyperText Transfer Protocol) as the underlying protocol to transfer these pages. However, a user doesn't have to know about HTTP and HTML in order to access documents on the Web, and only limited knowledge is needed to create your first personal page (see below for local users).
There is a backup server, called www2.strw.leidenuniv.nl that serves this same information.
Personal WWW pages for local users
For local users, here is some help
on how to set up your own presentation,
provided you have your home directory known to www.strw.leidenuniv.nl
(users in the rest of the world should contact the person who maintains the
www pages at their institute).
A list of people who already have such a page can be found here.
