This is a text-only version of our server's home page, for those of you who have slow connections but cannot turn off image loading.
Please note that this is not the
New to the World Wide Web? Maybe you don't know Mosaic from HTTPD? Check out The World Wide Web for the Clueless, a quick, non-jargon intro to WWW and our server. (These are hypertext links; just click on them to follow them.)
We welcome any and all feedback you'd like to make, via our (optionally anonymous) comment gateway.
Recently, we've been asked about why we haven't made any Netscape enhancements to our page. Here's why not.
New and interesting things that are happening to the SIPB WWW server.
Confused by IAP? Trying to look for things to do? Try the searching the IAP Guide (MIT only).
Other WWW (and non-WWW) servers on MITNet, including those added by Resnet
Gateways to useful
Home pages of people around MIT, including students and staff as well as
people with `less traditional'
Organizations, activities, and living groups at MIT. Academic subjects,
departments, and research groups are now listed on the Academics and Research page on
the official MIT Web server.
Interesting documents for learning about and getting around in the Web (and other places too).
The lighter side
There's a tourist information booth in the town of Detour, Maryland. The most common question its workers encounter is from tourists, who faithfully followed the signs that say "Detour," and want to know "How do I get back onto the highway?"
If you're wondering why this story appears on our home page, it's to say that if you're looking for the MIT home page, you've just followed the information highway to the town of Detour. To get to the MIT home page, follow these signs:
The MIT WWW server provides academic and administrative information about
MIT and its departments, research
centers, and labs; how to
apply, how to contact MIT
offices, how to get PGP,
and other useful information. The MIT WWW server has nothing to do with our
server.