Cyberdog

Cyberdog.org is a site that I set up to help maintain the Cyberdog user community in the absence of Apple's servers. It is a place for people to come find information about this great browser suite, to meet other users in the news groups, and to download helper files and Cyberdog add-ons. Its primary services include Web (HTTP), FTP and News (NNTP)... . It was started primarily as a mirror site for the cyberdog.general newsgroup before Apple shut down its own Cyberdog server, but has continued to serve as a gathering point for information and for the 'doggers themselves (as we Cyberdog users often call ourselves). The news groups are also mirrored by at least two other sites on the Internet to help us reduce the load on our server, as we have a large number of people still using Cyberdog today. Explain what happened to CD, i.e. Apple holding the technology and basically just sitting on it? Cyberdog is a demonstration product created by Apple Computer, Inc. to show off the wonderful functionality of OpenDoc. Originally, plans had been made to move all Macintosh software (including the Macintosh Finder) into the OpenDoc architecture, and in so doing make Cyberdog's Internet access a part of the System itself. It would have been capable of connecting to Internet sites from inside almost any program in such a way as to be ubiquitous. However, Apple could not get nearly as much support from software developers as they has hoped for the OpenDoc programming model. Therefore, they have placed both OpenDoc and its prodigy, Cyberdog, in what is termed "maintenance mode. A euphemism used at Apple that should be read as "discontinued and unsupported." While Apple is often faulted for this decision, one must realize that the Cyberdog Internet suite was never actually a supported product, but was only a demonstration of the technology available from OpenDoc. Developer support (that is, the lack of it in any quantity) is really at fault for the end of Cyberdog and OpenDoc updates.Read More