Five years ago, at the Vienna IUGG, the International Heat Flow Commission discussed briefly the topic of electronic communication. At that time e-mail was a fairly new concept, awkwardly implemented over a variety of networks with different protocols. In the quadrennium following Vienna, e-mail has become routine. The Internet has grown by leaps and bounds, large data transfers by FTP are now commonplace, and we are confronted by a new entity, the World Wide Web, an n-dimensional array of information about almost anything, provided you can navigate through the WWW. A portal into the WWW is called a Home-Page, representing an individual, an institute or department, a business or government bureau. The IHFC now displays its very own Home-Page, with a URL (Universal Resource Locator) address of http://www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/IHFC. This home page in the future will be your access to news of IHFC activities, publications, databases, newsletters, meetings, etc. When fully operational it will enable you to contribute material for posting so that others in the geothermal community can benefit. Welcome to the IHFC Home-Page on the WWW.
Sincerely,
Vladimir Cermak
Chairman 1995-1999
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