Project Milestones

• April 1994: Concept.
• May 26: First Raiders Team Meeting.
• June 6: First Interface Design Proposed.
• June 14: Pentium PC Delivered.
• June 14: PC Camera Interface Installed.
• June 20: Robot Server Connected to the Internet.
• June 21: Server installed on www.usc.edu, Mercury Story Installed.
• July 18: Random Token Scheme Added, User Interface Overhauled.
• July 21: WWW Scripts Linked to Robot Server.
• August 1: Alpha Test Launched.
• August 3: Operator's Log Added.
• August 8: Artifacts Buried.
• August 12: Beta Test Launched.
• August 26: NCSA What's New Notice Submitted.
• August 31: Open House for USC Faculty.
• September 1: comp.robotics announcement.
• September 7: comp.infosystems.www.* announcement
• September 19: Newsweek (Sept. 26): Cyberscope.
• September 21: PC Week (Sept. 19): Server of the Week.
• September 21: USC Chronicle and Daily Trojan.
• September 25: The London Times.
• October 2: The Australian.
• October 14: Justin Hall's "Links from the Underground".
• October 14: Mozilla (Netscape) "What's Cool".
• October 16: LA Times: Palm Latitudes.
• October 19: 2nd International WWW Conference presentation (MBONE).
• November 14: Wired Magazine, Issue 2.12.
• December 1: IEEE Institute, Sun Expert.
• December 14: Internet World "Best in Net Entertainment:1994".
• December 15: CBS "Up to the Minute".
• December 25: NHK SimTV2: "Global Christmas".
• January, 1995: Discover Magazine.
• January 9: Monitor Radio (NPR).
• Feb 6: Over 50,000 unique hosts (2,000,000 hits).
• Feb 21:Thank you, Laurie Anderson.
• March 10: Canada's Globe and Mail.
• Mar 13:The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• March 31:Project Decommission.