Sponsored by University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Photojournalism.

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This multimedia production was initiated, researched, created and set up by

Thorne Anderson
Faculty Supervisor
(c627481@showme.missouri.edu)

Jennifer Loomis
Faculty Supervisor
(c656304@showme.missouri.edu)

Eric Adams
Photographer / Sound Recorder
(c564931@showme.missouri.edu)

Lothar Fritsch
Reporter / Writer / Computer Support
(fritsch@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de)

Ting-Yi Hsu
Photographer
(c564951@showme.missouri.edu)

Tzu-Feng "Marlene" Lin
Technical Support
(c659671@showme.missouri.edu)

Katherine Szeto
Graphic Designer
(c615297@showme.missouri.edu)

We are thankful for help, hints, interviews and resources to:

Mid-Missouri Telecom and the RAIN Network
for providing background information
(http://vax1.rain.gen.mo.us/)

The Samson Family
for interviews, their time and a great breakfast!

The Columbia Missourian
for providing the film scanner and permitting Ting-Yi a day off

the crew

The Blue ribbon Do you know about the communications decency act? It imposes heavy restrictions on free speech in computer networks. If you don't like the idea to be prosecuted for $10.000 because you expressed something online that was completely legal in the next bookstore, check the Electronic Frontier Foundation and their Blue Ribbon Campaign.

Here's how we made the story:

    January 31, 1996:
  • Thorne Anderson brings up the topic of '24 hours in Cyberspace' in his photojournalism class.
    February, 1 to February 7, 1996
  • Various meetings took place to find a story, research background, make appointments, shape the story, get a day off on February 8, familiarizing the designer with the story.
    February 8, 1996:
  • 5:30am-2:30pm: Photoshooting on the Farm, MU Extension, Campus Computerlabs
  • 3pm: Film processing
  • 3pm: Storywriting
  • 3pm: Designers arrive and go on with Web page design
  • 4:30pm: Film processing finished, scanning begun
  • 8:00pm: Layout finished. Family page finished. 3 substories about family members under preparation. We stop for the day. Come back during the next few days for special touches, including sound!
    February 9, 1996:
  • 9:40am: Storywriting and HTML formatting continued...
  • 12noon: Sarah' story finished. Maryann's in started.
  • 12:15pm: One more gfx design requried.
    February 13, 1996:
  • 12:55pm: Group meeting, discussion about further details.
  • 4:00pm: Two-storyline-draft moved over to the Web site.
    February 15, 1996:
  • 12:55pm: Group meeting, discussion
  • 8:00pm: a part of the crew met, story for Maryann Samson written
  • Still, the audio is missing.
    February 18, 1996:
  • 4:00pm: Sound capture started.
  • 9:53pm: Sound capture and editing finished.
    February 22, 1996:
  • 10:13pm: The last two photos are scanned and installed.
  • 10:22pm: The final document structure is created. The story is supposed to be finshed by now.