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Good Morning, Dave: the 1998 INET Conference Kiosk Launcher

In July 1998, the Internet Society held INET '98, "The Internet Summit", at Palexpo in Geneva. Geneva provided about 250 computers for the conference, and I was a student there.

Good Morning, Dave: the 1998 INET Conference Kiosk Launcher

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In July 1998, the Internet Society held INET '98, "The Internet Summit", at Palexpo in Geneva.

Geneva provided about 250 computers for the conference, and I was a student there.

I wrote much of the conference network's website, www.inet98.ch, and the launcher that ran on the public Windows 95 PCs instead of Explorer.

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In July 1998, the Internet Society held INET '98, "The Internet Summit", at Palexpo in Geneva. Geneva provided about 250 computers for the conference, and I was a student there. I wrote much of the conference network's website, www.inet98.ch, and the launcher that ran on the public Windows 95 PCs instead of Explorer.

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Originally appeared on code.dblock.org | tech blog. Internet Explorer, Netscape, PC Pine, Telnet, WS-FTP and Office 95 and 97.

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