Issue 2 (240KB PDF) from May 1995 contained more VR specific articles than issue 1 which was more about net related info. I covered the VRA's web site, and the highlight of that little bit of writing had to be that i mentioned that the site was designed primarily for the Netscape browser of the time, "n16e11n" or Netscape 1.1, which I recently installed on my TabletPC for a bit of a trip through memory lane...and what did i learn on my little trip??? The best thing that Netscape added to the HTML 1 specification???....the <blink> tag of course.. :)

I had a few images from the Disney Aladdin ride (which stil looks really cool) and a small review of the marketing website put together for that piece of cinematic excellance, the movie version of William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic".

My friends at MecklerWeb got another mention for their VR Metropolis site which was run by one of the VR guru's of the day, Joe Dysart. I did a small review on Autodesk's entry into the VR world, the cool sounding "Cyberspace Developers Kit" as well as a local Australian VR application called "Cyberterm" which was being put together by a gentleman from Adelaide called Michael Snoswell which was designed to run on the most powerful consumer machine of the day...the 486 DX/33 with 8 Megs of RAM...times have changed...thank god...

The second issue was wrapped up with some more info on VRML and the launch of the WebFORCE and WebSPACE applications from Silicon Graphics (SGI). If there is one thing that i miss from the mid 90's, its the cool names we used to give to software...

I can't find any more copies of the next editions of "Surf's Up", but i do remember doing another three or four issues before i got caught up in other things...as you do...

(Written by Mick Stanic and originally posted to SplaTT's Blog on 14th September 2004)