PICS is the Platform for Content Selection - before metadata but a set of 10 digits, each of which rated for a characteristic of content, e.g. violence, bad language, etc - and users could put their preferences as a number in their browser and thus just get what satisfied the code they made with the rest blocked.
It was a quick answer to the fear of bad things being on the web! Pawn people loved it - clear direction to their audience, etc …Bill Clinton loved it. Eric Miller stood up in a PICS meeting one very cold day in London and said if we can do that with numbers we can do it with words and there was a new baby - metadata as we know it! I have to add there were 6 people from Microsoft at that meeting of no more than about 15 people - they were shaking their heads and going outside to call M’soft bosses, but when they finally agreed, M’soft gave their vote and there it was. A momentous day for some :-) Liddy PICS: https://www.w3.org/PICS/ > On 8 Apr 2021, at 8:36 am, Tom Worthington <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 6/4/21 8:47 am, Liddy Nevile wrote: > >> Sounds to me as if Tom might be resurrecting PICS?? > > PICS? You will need to remind me, and perhaps other Linkers. > > > -- > Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP IP3P http://www.tomw.net.au +61(0)419496150 > TomW Communications Pty Ltd. PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Prof. Standards Legislation > > Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian National University > https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
