Visitors to Jos's web sites

Visitors to Jos's web sites

(broken since April 2004)

Where from: this month, non-computer, Searches,     .

This site Celebrating His Life

After an initial high of 2700 hits per month, the index page of this site celebrating his life quickly dropped to around 1000 per month where it remains around the end of the fourth year. Total text page hits/week runs about 4000. Besides his family, friends, and coworkers, we see the knitters, the webscissors/pagebuilders, the Java programmers, the college applicants, and the Culture Wars people. Also people interested in massage tables and in cardiology and ///tears/// his funeral service. Here are longstanding known links to His Life. Here is how many times specific files were sent out from here:
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His teaching sites (Oop and Culture Wars)

In the summer of 1997 here at Stanford, Jos finished off his Culture Wars site and built his OOP tutorial. Now (year 2003) his OOP site draws about 200 visitors per day while his Culture Wars site draws about 15 per day. (Those numbers are the hit count of the most popular page.)
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I collected a list of sites recommending his OOP tutorial.
And a list of sites recommending his Culture Wars site.

His hobby sites (Toessel and Webscissors)

Here at Stanford we administer this "Life of Jos" site and his Culture Wars and OOP tutorial sites. Elsewhere, Jos's friends administer his Webscissors site and his Toessel site. Mid 2002 the Webscissors host began a new more informative accounting system (commented out here). Mid 2003 it shows in an average month, about 2000 sites come to use Webscissors about 6000 times.

Likewise, his Toessel site (NOW DISCONNECTED) remains busy we infer from the number of visitors it sends here (about one a day in 2003). A local copy of his Toessel site gets about three visitors/day.

His work site at WebTV

Jos wrote 19 articles at the WebTV developer site in a six month period. Although much was his own creative work, much also was his explanations of the work of others. For the year following his death he averaged 2000 hits/day in the "authoring" division and 3000 hits/day in the "web page design" division. He also provided answers to many questions that came up on the public web authoring "forum". By 2002 this company, product, and web site had changed so much that I considered Jos's material to be out of date until I heard from tech whiz Jax Red that "The present MSN-TV Developer JavaScript Website is not as inclusive and informative as Jos Claerbout's original article about WebTV javascript support."

"Look at all you beautiful people"

Joel Black said it this way:

If Jos was able to do this, the first thing he'd say is, "Look at all you beautiful people," because he always said that. Then he'd probably hug every one of you, and he'd touch every one of you, and he'd say something to every one of you, because he did that all the time. It's like he let everyone know that he loved everyone, first thing.

And then, we'd start talking, and then the ideas would be flowing, and this is like the second piece of Jos. These ideas are flowing back and forth, and we're just running around with ideas -- and he'd originate; he'd bounce back ideas. It was just a great thing -- he's a great man.

I guess I've been thinking for days and this is what Jos is about. He loved everyone and he shared ideas all the time. That's what he'd be doing right now if he could.


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