{"id":29,"date":"2005-11-08T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2005-11-08T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T09:47:00","slug":"web-resources-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/08\/web-resources-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Resources, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering around the web, I came across a site that had copied my web page on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.bilkent.edu.tr\/trick.html\">pointers in Operations Research from 1994<\/a>, presumably to avoid the then-slow cross-Atlantic downloads.  It is stunning to remember what life was like pre-web.   That page has about 50 pointers, about half of which were &#8220;ftp&#8221; or &#8220;gopher&#8221; (a http\/html precursor).  And I think that page was pretty complete!  Compare that to the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Resources\">INFORMS Resources page<\/a> which has about 1500 pointers (100-200 of which are broken, but I&#8217;m getting to those) and is by no means complete.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the value of these resource collections in the age of google.  I spend a fair amount of time with the Resources page, but even I, when looking for something in OR, start at google.  I think Resource pages are useful to get a handle on an area, and I am glad we have one for OR, but it certainly isn&#8217;t the critical page it was pre-google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering around the web, I came across a site that had copied my web page on pointers in Operations Research from 1994, presumably to avoid the then-slow cross-Atlantic downloads. It is stunning to remember what life was like pre-web. That page has about 50 pointers, about half of which were &#8220;ftp&#8221; or &#8220;gopher&#8221; (a http\/html &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/08\/web-resources-then-and-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Web Resources, then and now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}