Using WWW-Stuart
Each message consists of a message number, an author, and perhaps a date
(messages written before Stuart got a clock don't have a date), followed
by some text and a menu of response messages. Then there are some standardized
links that allow you to traverse the tree:
- Up
- Up sends you to the immediate parent of the message you are
viewing. On the Big Tree, every message except #0 has a parent, which you
should imagine as being positioned above it. (The Tree is upside down.)
- Left
- Left sends you to the sibling message (one that has the same
parent as the current message) immediately before the current message
in the parent message's menu.
- Right
- Right sends you to the sibling message immediately after
the current message in the parent message's menu.
- Back
- Back sends you to the message immediately before yours in
chronological order (message number order), without regard to the tree
structure.
- Fwd
- Fwrd sends you to the message immediately after yours in
chronological order.
- Walk
- Walk sends you walking along the tree in depth-first order.
To be precise, it sends you down to the first response message if there
is one; if not, it sends you to the right; and failing that, it sends you
upward and then to the right.
- Top
- Top sends you to the Topmost Node of Stuart II, message #0.
- Search
- Search sends you to the search page, where you can search
for single words (or prefixes of them) in the whole Stuart message base.
- Comment
- Allows you to read comments that people have added to the
Stuart database, and to add your own comment. This service courtesy of
Loquacious.
If you want to jump to a particular message, nnnn, just point your
browser at http://stuartii.pyrzqxgl.com:6502/nnnn.html.
However, Stuart messages were renumbered to conserve the 16-bit message
number space, so message numbers appearing in the text that are greater
than 10000 may be incorrect.