The Oberon Webring
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Welcome to the homepage of the Oberon Webring, designed to put all the
information on Oberon and related developments together in one place.
The motivation for starting this webring grew out of discussions in the
comp.lang.oberon
newsgroup in April 1998 regarding ideas for making Oberon more visible
to the general
net.citizen,
thus increasing the potential user and developer base.
Currently it is not yet sure that this initiative will be a success,
but then, I have at least tried to do something valuable
for the Oberon community...
The Ringmaster,
27. April 1998
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Mission
The Oberon Webring serves as a central starting point for websites
related to the Oberon programming language or system environment as
developed originally at the ETH Zürich by Niklaus Wirth and
Jürg Gutknecht.
It also serves as a starting point for websites related to developments
derived from or inspired by the original Oberon designs.
Joining
Joining the Oberon Webring is very easy: Just click on "Join" in the
"Navigation Bar" below and fill out the relevant forms.
Of course, you must also add the actual HTML markup for the "Navigation
Bar" to your site, but this will be emailed to you right after your
application.
Let me add a note regarding the proper use of HTML here: I would like to
see that all sites in the Oberon Webring actually validate as proper
HTML 4.0 or XHTML 1.0 according to the official
W3 Consortium's
validator.
It would also be appreciated if you could spend some time to study the
guidelines on accessible web design established by the
Best Viewed With Any
Browser campaign.
In my opinion, the web should be as interoperable and accessible as
possible to anyone, anywhere, even when using stone-age computers.
Think about it, you might arrive at the same conclusions...
Anyway, I look forward to seeing lots and lots of Oberon related sites
join this webring.
Maybe we can contribute a little bit to raising Oberon awareness
on the web.
Wouldn't that be great?
Resources
Here are some resources that no Oberon enthusiast's homepage should be
without. Except for the "Webring" button, which should point to this page,
you are free to link the others wherever you want.
Just link them!
Note that these are in PNG and GIF format respectively. I encourage
the use of PNG for obvious reasons.
If you have ideas for other slogans, other buttons, or even designed your
very own Oberon publicity buttons, please
send them in!
History
| Date | Event |
| 19. April 1998 | Oberon Webring established by Peter H. Fröhlich
at UCI. |
| 26. April 1998 | Oberon Webring has 4 sites. Not much for a
week, at least on the Internet. |
| 27. April 1998 | Oberon Webring main site relocates to n! for no reason whatsoever. |
| 06. May 1998 | Oberon Webring finally at 10 sites, thanks to the
University of Linz, Austria! |
| 16. April 1999 | Finally we have a counter here! And our first
birthday is coming up... |
| 25. January 2001 | Changed providers and updated site to XHTML. |
| 25. July 2001 | First major makeover in years, I hope you like it. |
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EOP
