The MIT SIPB Webmasters

Well, we know you all are desperately interested in the ever-intriguing lives of those exciting few, the MIT SIPB Webmasters, so here's a page of info about us just to allow you to feel all that much closer to us and permit us to feel all that much more important. (no, we don't really look like that picture)

There are ten +/- 2 webmasters, and we are all students or graduates of MIT. With classes (and jobs), we're doing our best to keep up with mail to webmaster@mit.edu.

We're all members of a volunteer group at MIT, the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB). Each of the webmasters deals with a slightly different part of the web maintenance, allowing us to spread the work out. Please feel free to send us feedback and commentary. By the way, here are some of our policies and Frequently Asked Questions. And here's a table of contents:

Who we are. The list right below.
Our non-webmasters. No comment.
Our history. It won't make the bestseller list.

Eric (nocturne@mit.edu)

Eric has been busy keeping up with mail to webmaster, and writing extensions to our server, like the finger and machine information gateways. He still follows the other webmasters around and corrects their typographical and grammatical errors. If you have an idea for a new service or gateway that we could provide, you might find that Eric is interested in making it happen. At the very least, you should suggest it to him. :-)

Eri (rei@mit.edu)

Eri draws lots of pretty pictures, including the one at the top of this page. Almost all the artwork in our server is Eri's. Eri also does maintenance, writes short useful guides and blurbs, and has even started mucking with CGI scripts. Perl is your friend (sometimes). Did we mention the graphics on the official MIT server? Alas, but Eri has no time...

Fred (tritan@mit.edu)

Fred maintained the MIT Activities and Academics pages. He also writes some perl code which helps maintain our documents, like a database and html generators for the Home Pages lists.

Jake (harrisj@mit.edu)

Jake is back in town and working as a webmaster again. His current projects involve hacking out CGI scripts, answering user mail, and thinking of absurd projects to do on the web server.

Yonah (yonah@mit.edu)

Yonah is now working on getting the server to handle its load better.

Kevin "Bob" Fu (fubob@mit.edu)

Kevin is handling some general maintenance and user requests. He is a newer addition than yonah. He dreams to keep the request queue at a minimum. (He's doing a darn good job! --rei).

Teresa Lai (tlai@mit.edu)

Teresa is our newest helpful webmaster! She's been handling most of the home page list addition requests.

Matthew Gray (mkgray@mit.edu)

Matthew has returned as a webmaster. He has upgraded the server to Apache and is working on various tweaks to server performance.

Richard Barbalace (rjbarbal@mit.edu)

Richard is currently blurbless.

Yoav (yoav@mit.edu)

Yoav is officially, at his own insistence, not a webmaster, but he helps us out with maintainance of the machine.

Matt (mhpower@mit.edu)

Another maintainer and long-time SIPB member.

John (jhawk@mit.edu)

Yet another machine maintainer. Yay.

The original www.mit.edu:8001 was first started in July(?) 1993; it may be among the first 100 WWW servers in the world. The original webmasters were:

• Matthew (mkgray), who thought the web was cool.
• Chad (yandros), who did some web hacking.
• then Bert (bert), who also did both of the above.

• Jessie (sorokin), who preached about the web to the masses.
• Fred (tritan), who maintained the activities listing.
• Eric (nocturne), who wrote neat scripts.
• Eri (rei), who did a bunch of graphics and volunteered to add homepages.
• etc etc (?)

Richard Basch (basch@mit.edu)

did the wonderful service of improving the weather gateway and other such nasty jobs.

Jeff (jcb@mit.edu)

Jeff is now working at Cygnus.

Mike (mjbauer@lcs.mit.edu)

Wrong Mike (mwhitson@mit.edu)

Web Serf and Perl Peasant, he is currently working for I/S on the official MIT web server, as well as trying in his copious spare time to hack together a threaded version of httpd.