Server Systems Internet Services

History

Server Systems was created several years ago to allow certain people interested in online civil liberties the opportunity to have a better firsthand understanding of issues relating to how the internet and the law interact.  The experiment has been an interesting one that has involved anonymous remailers, spam, email, usenet, weblinks, and a lawsuit with the state on anonymity.

LinkSpider.ServerSystems.net takes the experiment a step further to better understand how the internet interacts with itself. We are exploring database driven dynamic web sites, web services, XML, and other technologies.

Projects

One of the first issues to look at is the public domain usage of Dictionary information to serve dynamically created web pages.  In late 2004, using only one actual web page along with a backend database, we have generated over 107,000 web pages each with some standardized template content, and some unique content that is relevant to the word being looked up.  The major piece of unique content is of course the dictionary definition, but adding to this we are experimenting with various web services to automatically pull in various forms of relevant content.

Conclusions

Even at this early stage, we are given the impression that the user experience can be improved, and this is the most important part of creating a website.