Gandalf and the CCC Fulton Campus Web Portal
The first CCC Fulton Web Portal was posted at this URL in the Summer of 1999. Here's an early version. Nine years later the Fulton Campus "Web Portal" had seen its last incarnation. This is now a personal page for Wade Lambert.A little trivia
Gandalf is the actual name of this web server. If you don't know who Gandalf is, look here. I created the Fulton Web Portal to enable students to find useful internet resources as soon as they opened a browser on a college computer. For a sizable number of our users at that time the internet was terra incognita, and the Portal provided a launchpad for useful internet resources.
Gandalf had his first Fulton Campus incarnation in early 1999 on a PC that also was being used as a student PC in the library. Later that year I started using a recycled computer in my office as the webserver. In 2001 we purchased a new Dell server running Redhat Linux. He had several operating system upgrades and a couple of hardware changes before the actual server harware was retired in 2009. Gandalf is now happily running on a virtual server.
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. The reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own . -Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
