Bruno Girschweiler's home...

In early 1995, I was with the W3 Consortium.
In Cambridge, Mass. I did contribute a tiny little share to the WWW Project. EUnet in Zürich erklärt das Web auf deutsch.

Currently, I am "on the road" again. Somewhere between Cape Cod, New York, or ...

Your getting *here* proves you are an experienced Web surfer, so I don't have to tell you why I think the Web is THE major development to allow _anybody_ access the world's information sources.

Enjoy your browsing !

hyperwebbing

Developing slowly, spinning in process: You will be able to web an American Hypertext Story, by browsing thru it...

Until now, not much more than the page explaining the term "hyperwebbing" is available.
Please come back again !

Personals

• My "real" home is in Switzerland, that little country in the middle of E u r o p e .
  On this map, the smallest of three blue dots below ZH, the canton of Zürich, (links) is where I grew up at the Pfäffikersee.
• My email-address BFG@w3.org could be explained as Bruno From Geneva, [euGuide] where I lived from 1986 - 87.
• For the first few months of 1995, I lived in Cambridge, or, a bit more general, in Boston, U S A. Have a look at some digital postcards !
• My mother, an ornithologist, would be delighted to discover there is EuroBirdNet Suisse, also available in english.

History

• Once upon a time, there was a computer called VAX 11/780 (larger JPEG).
  It was to replace an old Univac, too sad I haven't found a picture of the historic card puncher on which I did a Swiss concern's yearend-closing. [ A card-puncher was the equivalent of most of today's speech recognition systems: be happy if the computer understands you and actually does what you want... ]

My hobbies include:

• Travelling or Traveling : Many years ago, I travelled in Asia -- but I did not have the time to go back to check out Singapore's Web servers yet.

  CONSTRUCTION: maybe I'll find someone who can help me digitize a few slides of my 1994 hiking in Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks ?

• Orienteering is a sport for runners who don't get lost too often crossing the forests... I was proud to notice this is the second sport in Switzerland to be present on the World Wide Web. (Much more on the U.S. Orienteering/Rogaining Home page).
• The first was Skiing, how are the Swiss Skiing Conditions ? (Valais in the Southwest)

• I hear there is still some snow in the Swiss mountains, although the greenhouse effect has given us a lot of hints in recent years. [pictured by Swiss PTT is the Eiger Nordwand and the Monch.]

• And I really care about this. NOAA published a report on Global Warming for U.S. citizens, the "Conclusions" at the bottom are worth the wait.

Recent travelling:

• In August 1994, I visited Badlands National Park, then the Black Hills where you find Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse National Monument nearby, which is much more important in my opinion. It ist being carved out of solid rock. This takes dozens of years, so you can't see much more yet than the head and the model. But the Indian Museum of North America is also there, and the whole effort is worth your support as the Black Hills belong to Native Americans, as guaranteed in a 1870's treaty.
  Talking about the value of paper as the Goldrush started...

• In September, I was in Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, as well as shortly in Grand Canyon National Park. There is also Mesa Verde National Park [slow!], Rocky Mountain N.P. with Nymph Lake / Hallet Peak which I climbed on 1-Oct-94.

• The City I like best out West is Boulder, Colorado (current weather by NCAR).
• Travelling with me can mean anything from not sleeping at all (e.g. New York), living in Hostels, or ....

• I admit I crossed the States by car, instead of HPV.

• Coming up:
  • Maybe, I'll make it all the way to New Orleans in May/June 1995.
    [ note: Jazz & Heritage Festival 28-Apr to 7-May ]

  • And will I see YOU there or back in Europe ? Please let me know.

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