Well, we know you all are desperately interested in the ever-intriguing
lives of those exciting few, the MIT SIPB Webmasters, so here's a page of info
about us just to allow you to feel all that much closer to us and permit us to
feel all that much more important. (no, we don't really look like that picture)
There are fifteen +/- 2 webmasters, and we are all students or
graduates of MIT. With classes (and jobs), we're doing our best to
keep up with mail to webmaster@mit.edu.
We're all members of a volunteer group at MIT, the Student Information
Processing Board (SIPB). Each of the webmasters
deals with a slightly different part of the web maintenance, allowing us to
spread the work out. Please feel free to send us feedback
and commentary. By the way, here are some of our policies and Frequently Asked Questions. And here's a
table of contents:
Useless History
The story of our server.
Once upon a time ...
The original www.mit.edu:8001 was first started in
July(?) 1993; it may be among the first 100 WWW servers in the world. The
original webmasters were:
- Matthew (mkgray), who thought the web was cool.
- Chad (yandros), who did some web hacking.
- then Bert (bert), who also did both of the above.
As time went on, they began collecting moss, I mean more webmasters:
- Jessie (sorokin), who preached about the web to the masses.
- Fred (tritan), who maintained the activities listing.
- Eric (nocturne), who wrote neat scripts.
- Eri (rei), who did a bunch of graphics and volunteered to add homepages.
- etc etc (?)
Here is a list of others who have been webmasters at one time or another:
- Eric (nocturne@mit.edu)
- Back before anyone had ever dreamed of putting a URL on a can of soup,
Eric used to spend a lot of time keeping up with mail to webmaster,
and writing
extensions to our server, like the finger and machine information gateways. But he's been
busy with other projects for quite a while now (life, and a real job),
and thus mostly inactive as a SIPB Webmaster. He still follows the
other webmasters around from time to time and corrects their
typographical and grammatical errors.
- Richard Basch (basch@mit.edu)
- did the wonderful service of improving the weather gateway and
other such nasty jobs.
- Eri (rei@mit.edu)
- Eri provided some of the pictures for the web server, helped answer
questions, wrote some explanatory blurbs, wrote or helped write a
couple server scripts, and so on. This was especially fun in the
early days, before URLs were advertised on billboards.
- Jeff (jcb@mit.edu)
- Jeff brought many of our pages (including this one) into line with the
HTML RFCs, and made a few improvements to our CGI scripts (including the
ability to query for homepages by full or partial names).
- Mike (mjbauer@lcs.mit.edu)
- Wrong Mike
(mwhitson@mit.edu)
- Web Serf and Perl Peasant, he is currently
working for I/S on the official MIT web server, as well as trying in his
copious spare time to hack together a threaded version of httpd.
There, wasn't that exciting? Sorry I had to remove the sex and violence
and the epic, sweeping romances. It would have overloaded our server.
The end.