The Pirates of Fenzance have a World Wide Web home page,
http://www.access.digex.net/~balt98, that describes the Baltimore bid and the
Baltimore-Washington area. You can access it with any Web browser (even lynx, but
you won't be able to see the cool pictures!). If you have Internet access without
Web access you can download our files via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) from
ftp.digex.net in /pub/access/balt98/public_html.
When you connect with your Web browser you will be looking at our home page. All the other pages lead back to here so you can't get lost. From the home page you will find links to pages on the Baltimore-Washington area, Baltimore itself, and the Baltimore Convention Center. The page on the Convention Center is currently under construction, just like the Convention Center itself., but we expect it to be completed soon. We also have a map of the Inner Harbor area (where the convention will be held) with the hotels, Convention Center and other landmarks marked. There's also a separate list of the hotels.
Next we'll take you to Glasgow so that if you aren't yet a member of Intersection (the 1995 Worldcon), you can become one and vote for us. Then there's a biography of Peggy Rae Pavlat, our con chair.
This is followed by announcements and news items. Current announcements include a call for "rum runners" (people to take rum to our bid party in Glasgow) and the sale of raffle tickets for two pirate paintings.
We also have the on-line version of the Fenzance Factsheet. After reading our newsletter, you can follow links to other pirate related pages on the Web. First to the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive at Boise State University where you can find out all about Gilbert and Sullivan including the complete libretto to "The Pirates of Penzance." A page on the History of Pirates from a student at University of Illinois at Chicago. Then the Pirate Page from a student from California State University, Chico. Or off to Japan to investigate Future Pirates, Inc. a Japanese music electronic and on-line service. If you are a sports fan maybe the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Shreveport CFL Pirates, or the Portland AHL Pirates are of interest to you. You can also find out about Pirate radio. Or check out the Terry and the Pirates comic strip home page from the writers of the strip.
We also have a series of links to `local' Web pages of interest. A link to the Baltimore Science Fiction Society which has many members involved in the Worldcon bid and puts on Balticon each year at Easter time. Then links to Baltimore and Baltimore-Washington sites of interest. These are links to web sites of local businesses and organizations and descriptions of physical sites of interest. One that might interest fans is Sailor, the on-line part of the Maryland Public Library system. Then you can pop over to the Smithsonian Institute or the Library of Congress. Or you can go to a site in France that has maps and timetables of subway systems from around the world to find out about the Baltimore Metro system!
Finally, we have links to all three standing Worldcons, Intersection in Glasgow, Scotland this year; LACon 3 in Anaheim, California in 1996; and Lone Star Con 2 in Austin, Texas in 1997. They each have Web sites of their own and have many interesting things about what will be happening at the upcoming Worldcons.
Happy `net surfing!