| Home, home on the range "Although the
buffalo don't roam there, nor do the deer and the
antelope play, the Web is your home on the range. Wide-open
land just waits to be claimed, settled, and developed
into valuable property—your personal Web page.
That land comes
in the form of storage space on a Web server that hosts
your site. And in one of the best deals around, that land
is just given away—yep, for free. Numerous
homesteading services hand out megabytes of server space
and the tools to build pages, competing for settlers like you.
They're eager for your content (even if that content is
lame, it seems), not for altruistic reasons, but strictly
for filthy lucre: advertising dollars from companies
looking to promote products in front of the millions who
visit these page collections.
Most ISPs (Internet
service providers) give you a few megabytes of server
space for your personal pages, but we
focused on a half-dozen specialized homestead sites:
Angelfire, GeoCities, Homestead, Hometown AOL, Tripod,
and Xoom. We signed up and checked out the
server space, page-making tools, interface, and
communities on each."
By
Gregg Keizer (28/12/98)
http://cnet.bigpond.com/Briefs/Guidebook/Homesteading/
Dream Homes
The land is free and the
house affordable.
Choose your home plans
and landscapes. Picture perfect or animated.
There is room for the
spouse and children. Garage, kitchen, entertainment and
chat rooms. The land is the limit.
How about a room with a
view. Hear the birds' sing or the sound of the sea
outside.
You can go on and buy
the home plans to start building your dream home all over
again.
Architects, homepage
builders and homestead affiliates sell homes.
Thien Vui P'en (5/8/99)
Home plans
Alternative Home Plans.
Sierra Log
Homes
The
Database of Houses is a continuing effort to list every
country house built in Britain and Ireland, standing or
demolished.
Resource: ArtServe . Arcspace . Cities and
Buildings Collection . Design for
Health . homestore.com . Scene7 . The Great Buildings Collection
Wired Home
June 2000 -Home Wired Home: Home net prices are falling,
and you can set one up yourself. We check out six kits
and pick a Best Buy. -PC World.
Oct 23, 2000 -Home on the Web: Facing a sagging corporate
marketplace, tech leaders are preparing to invade homes
with everything from paging dishwashers to Internet
butlers. will consumers buy it? By Joe Ashbrook Nickell.
April 27, 2001 -"From
today French Web addicts can buy their dream home in the suburban Parisian town of
Etiolles." via Scitech.
May 25, 2001 - Geek house: Hardware hackers are using a
fast-spreading technology called X-10 to give their homes
a cheap and speedy intelligence upgrade. -Salon.com.
June 4, 2001 - This New
Home
What's it like living in a wired home? One Singapore
couple is finding that gadgets are great but it's still
nice to feel the fruit. -Time Magazine
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