in case you did not know what was possible

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

TESTBED DEMO. The National Information Infrastructure Testbed consortium
announced its first demonstration last week. The "Earth Data System" will
link researchers at Oregon State to colleagues at the University of New
Hampshire and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.,
allowing them to share satellite images and other environmental data. The
high-speed network will enable the scientists to work with the data
simultaneously, something that is now impossible on the Internet. (Chronicle
of Higher Education 9/22/93 A22)