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Case Studies

The Web is already being put to a myriad of different uses: educational, recreational and commercial. People are inventing new uses for it all the time, limited only by the extent of their imaginative powers. It is being used by individuals, businesses, institutions and government organizations. This chapter provides a small and deliberately eclectic selection of outline case studies, to give some idea of the diversity of uses to which the Web lends itself, and to stimulate the imagination of the reader. Of course, the best way to appreciate the diversity of the Web in all its glory is to get hold of a browser program and take some time to explore the Web itself.

• Commerce
  • The Internet Shopping Network
  • Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
  • Global Network Navigator
• Education and the arts
  • Australian National University Institute of the Arts Library
  • Le WebLouvre
  • The British Library's Electronic Beowulf
• Public information
  • The United States Department of Commerce - STAT-USA
  • Purdue Weather Processor

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.