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The Beeline is a true legacy Web site. After years of research in Internet technologies, Míc launched The Beeline in 1994 to serve the community of South Central Indiana. Deploying his patented Beeline-AIR System (area information retrieval), he has since expanded its reach globally. Its mission is simply to be "The quickest way around town and the world." Beeline Publications offers services that include Web publishing, design and development, as well as site maintenance and management. We caught up with Míc in late October and invited him to talk to us about the early days on the World Wide Web, effective area information retrieval, and how we all can best maximize community opportunities that the Internet presents. [Internet Brothers] Welcome, Míc, and thanks. You were actually a beta-tester of the original Web browser, Mosaic. The highly successful Beeline has been around since that early beginning. How did it all get started?
The next root experience was my urban design/regional planning thesis. During this period of self-inflicted hell, I learned many new town planning skills such as inference reading, projecting trend-lines, scenario building, and temporal visualization. The breadth and depth of this thesis, coupled with the level of complexity, disciplined my mind for mega-scale, multidisciplinary projects. What I ended up with was far more than the lunacy I had to do it.
The next two events occurred when Tim Berners-Lee unleashed his World Wide Web with HTML in 1990 and NCSA leaked Mark Andreesen's Mosaic Team Project in 1993. I fooled around in Tim's WWW area with a Unix workstation; but frankly, after HyperCard & Mac, I wasn't that impressed, not until I was asked to evaluate Mosaic's feasibility for the Superconducting Super Collider Project. My imagination lit up again, and this time I couldn't stop thinking about how to create a virtual community. [IB] As a high school basketball star, you were recruited by the infamous Bob Knight to play for Indiana University. Do you have any experiences you'd like to share with our readers about him and life in the pressure-packed atmosphere of top-ranked intercollegiate athletics? [MM] Infamous? If I can arrange it, would you say that to Coach's face? I'll split the video royalties with you. Seriously, Coach Knight is one of the greatest intellects I have met and I've been around some great ones. Coach showed me a level of excellence I never knew existed. He was a great teacher for me despite the fact my lessons seemed remedial at times. Unfortunately, it's not easy to share a story about Coach without getting a Web site in trouble with Net Nanny and the like. Besides, there's an unwritten code about discussing his warm, heartfelt chats and the skillful tricks he's performed with inanimate objects. I will tell you this: play by his rules and he's your best ally. I did, and when I told him the University of Colorado had the curriculum I wanted, he had their coach on the phone the next minute, and within four more it was a done deal; full scholarship and more. As for living in a pressure-packed environment, I'd say, avoid it if you can — life's too short. Continue Míc Miller Interview
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The Internet Brothers have implemented hierarchical menus for navigation. Easier done than said. The hierarchical menus were created using Peter Belesis' © Dynomat DHTML scripting tool from Webreference. Give them a visit, you'll like what you learn.
"Any one of these events would have lit my imagination like a physicist groking E=mc2 for the first time."
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[Míc Miller] Well, you're
welcome. Thanks for asking me here. It's said that meaning is something we acquire
by collecting different pieces. The Beeline is an example of this that
started in 1977 when my urban design/regional planning professor volunteered
me to test his friend's doctoral project. It turned out to be a 3D-animation
program for the 
Then, in 1987, three revolutionary
ideas presented themselves to me. In January, I accepted a university position
that required using something called the Net. That August, I got
