removed a bunch of obsolete location about the network host;

moved a bunch of stuff here from the home page
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-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
-<html>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+
 <head>
 <title>About the W3C HTML Validation Service</title>
 <meta name="revision"
-  content="$Id: about.html,v 1.2 1998-07-24 22:11:34 gerald Exp $">
+  content="$Id: about.html,v 1.3 2000-04-28 08:30:03 gerald Exp $" />
 </head>
+
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b">
 
-<table width="100%">
-<tr valign=middle>
-<td valign=middle>
-<a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home"
-height="48" border="0" alt="W3C"></a>
-<td valign=middle>
-<h1 align=center>About the<br>W3C HTML Validation Service</h1>
-<td valign=middle>
-<a href="http://www.compaq.com/"><img alt="COMPAQ" border="0"
-src="/misc/compaq-logo.gif" align=left></a>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr>
 <p>
-The performance of <a href="/">this validator</a> is a combination of
-the base system <a
-href="#Hardware1">hardware</a> and <a href="#Software1">software</a> and the
-<a href="#Network1">network</a> connectivity of the site which hosts it,
-providing very high validation performance to the Internet.</p>
+  <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img
+     src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" height="48" border="0"
+     alt="W3C" /></a>
+</p>
 
-<h2 id="Hardware"><a name="Hardware1">Hardware</a></h2>
-<p>
-The system consists of an <a
-href="http://www.workstation.digital.com/products/auseries/auproduct.html">Alpha
-Personal Workstation 500au</a> with 128 megabytes of memory and a disk.  This
-is a <a
-href="http://www.digital.com/semiconductor/alpha/dsc-21164.html">500mhz Alpha
-21164 processor</a> with very fast main memory and cache. This is one step up
-from the low end Alpha workstation.  If we need more speed, we can get
-it!</p>
-
-<h2 id="Software"><a name="Software1">Software</a></h2>
-<p>
-The base system software is <a href="http://www.unix.digital.com/">DIGITAL
-UNIX version 4.0C</a>.</p>
+  <h2>About the W3C HTML Validation Service</h2>
 
-<h2 id="Network"><a name="Network1">Network</a></h2>
-<p>
-The network which hosts this system is on a 100mbit/second one hop away from
-Compaq's <a href="http://www.ix.digital.com/">Internet Exchange</a>, in Palo
-Alto California.  This provides as much bandwidth as we could possibly use at
-a site extremely well connected to <a
-href="http://www.ix.digital.com/participating/participants.html">many networks
-of the global Internet</a>.  The combination of fast hardware, a fast network,
-and great connectivity provides the service you see.</p>
+  <p>
+    <a href="./">This service</a> checks HTML documents for
+    conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other
+    HTML standards. Related resources include:
+  </p>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="/source/">Information on the source code availability</a></li>
+    <li><a href="todo.html">The to-do list for the service</a></li>
+    <li><a href="sgml-lib/catalog">DTDs (document types) supported by this
+      service</a> (the SGML catalog)</li>
+    <li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">The
+      www-validator mailing list</a></li>
+    <li><a href="feedback.html">How to provide feedback on this service</a></li>
+    <!--
+    <li>@@ conneg'd icons
+    -->
+  </ul>
+
+  <h2><a name="others">Other resources</a></h2>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/">W3C's HTML home page</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/">The W3C HTML 4.01
+      Recommendation</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/">The W3C XHTML 1.0
+      Recommendation</a></li>
+    <li>The <a
+      href="http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/">WDG HTML
+      validator</a> is another excellent online validation
+      service</li>
+    <li><a href="http://arealvalidator.com/">A Real Validator</a>
+      is a shareware HTML syntax checker for Windows systems,
+      from the author of the WDG validator</li>
+    <!--
+    <li>@@ bookmarklets</li>
+    -->
+  </ul>
 
 <h2><a name="credits">Credits</a></h2>
+
+  <p>
+    This service uses:
+  </p>
+
+  <ul>
+
+    <li>
+      <a href="http://www.jclark.com/">James Clark</a>'s excellent <a
+      href="http://www.jclark.com/sp/">SGML parser</a>,
+    </li>
+
+    <li>
+      The <a href="http://www.linpro.no/lwp/">libwww-perl library</a>
+      by Gisle Aas and Martijn Koster for retrieving documents.
+    </li>
+
+    <!--
+    <li>
+      <a href="http://www.weblint.org/~neilb/">Neil Bowers</a>' HTML
+      style checker, <a
+      href="http://www.weblint.org/">Weblint</a>.
+    </li>
+
+    <li>
+      SGML error explanations written by Scott Bigham.
+    </li>
+      -->
+
+    <li>
+      Patches and ideas from Terje Bless, <a
+      href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/">Liam Quinn</a>, and
+      others.
+    </li>
+
+  </ul>
+
 <p>
-People and organizations who help make this happen:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-Our thanks to Compaq's <a href="http://www.research.digital.com/">Network
-Systems Laboratory</a>, which provides the rack space and remote hands
-service, one hop away from Compaq's <a
-href="http://www.ix.digital.com/">Internet Exchange</a>.
-<li>
-W3C to install and maintain the validation service.
-<li>
-Stephen Stuart installed the system initially.
-<li>
-Glen Trewitt helps for operations, in the infrequent event of anything going
-wrong that we can't fix from Cambridge.
-<li>
-DIGITAL's Corporate Standards Group provides the hardware for
-this service.
-</ul>
-<p>
+  The <a
+  href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1994Jul/0015">first
+  online HTML validation service</a> was created by <a
+  href="http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/">Dan Connolly</a> and <a
+  href="http://www.webtechs.com/markg/">Mark Gaither</a>.
 </p>
-<hr>
+
+<hr />
+
 <address>
-<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img
-src="http://validator.w3.org/images/vh40.gif" height="31" width="88"
-align=right border="0" alt="Valid HTML 4.0!">
- </a> <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Gerald/">Gerald Oskoboiny</a>, <a
-href="http://www.w3.org/People/Gettys/">Jim Gettys</a><br>
-<a href="http://www.w3.org/Help/Webmaster">Webmaster</a><br>
-$Date: 1998-07-24 22:11:34 $ </address>
+  <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img
+     src="http://validator.w3.org/images/vxhtml10" height="31" width="88"
+     align="right" border="0" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" /></a>
+  <a href="/feedback.html">Gerald Oskoboiny</a><br />
+     $Date: 2000-04-28 08:30:03 $
+</address>
+
 </body>
+
 </html>
author	gerald <gerald@localhost>	2000-04-28 08:30:03 +0000
committer	gerald <gerald@localhost>	2000-04-28 08:30:03 +0000
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