This issue is full of changes and new announcements, it's hard to decide where to begin. Our Macintosh readers should have noticed by now the lovely new cover image designed by Kent Barrett, our faithful photography columnist. Starting last month, each month will have an original full colour.
There have also been some changes to our staff. I'd like to welcome our newest batch of writers: Ryan Crocker, Jon Gould, Brian Quinby, Johnn Tan and Marc A. Volvic. Each of them have contributed to this issue and I hope you enjoy their writing. There are several more new writers who will be showing off their creative abilities in the months ahead.
This issue also debuts our new column, The Quill. This departments will house creative writing. This month, Marc A. Volvic has written a short story entitled Flotsam, Jetsam.
Now for some really interesting news: Teletimes will soon be available on the World-Wide Web. For those of you who don't know what it is, I'll explain. WWW is a sort of user interface for the Internet, using graphics, sounds, animation and hypertext links. To use the Web, you need special software to connect to WWW servers. NCSA Mosiac is one free software package which is available for Mac, Windows and X Windows. This will be of special interest for those deprived readers who are stuck with the ASCII version of Teletimes.
In addition to the which will become available to a wider range of readers, the WWW Teletimes database will also include lots backissues in an interactive form (hypertext). Definitely cool stuff. At the current rate, Teletimes should be on the Web very soon. All readers on our mailing lists will receive an annoucement once on-line Teletimes is ready.
Teletimes is now available by Gopher at the WELL in San Fransisco. We have also begun to distribute Teletimes on FidoNet (a huge network of hobby BBSs). FidoNet distribution is being handled by Ian Geldard (igeldard@sound.demon.co.uk) who will be separating Teletimes into individual articles for more efficient transport.
Teletimes has definately come a long way since October '92 and fortunately there is still a great deal more room to grow.
