ATHENA. Pierre Perroud - Links to Athena

When the first documents of Athena were installed on the Web, in 1994, the Web was nearly empty. In this time, things were not easy: we spent time trying to configurate NCSA Mosaic Web browser, or 5.6 Kb or 14.4Kb modems, or needle printers (how to obtain both semi-colon and e acute?...); we had no scanner; it was quite an event when html2 replaced html.

There were three known digital libraries: Gutenberg in the USA, ABU in France and Athena at Geneva University. Books edited in our digital library were created at Athena; not copied from other Websites as so many plagiarists do!

There was no full mineral databases on the Internet (see dated screen captures hereunder). We put on line our mineral database created at MHNG in the '80: a time consuming work, searching data, typing and correcting thousands of mineral names, formula, type localities.

In the '90, we printed some Web pages with links to Athena, for memory. Now we scanned some of those formerly printed documents, and display them herunder. The purpose is only to retain the memory of the beginning of the Internet adventure.

Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, France 26 May 1999	Ministère de la Culture, France 19 March 1999
Institut National de la Langue française 3 November 1999	Gallica, Bibliothèque de France 19 April 1999
Oxford University 3 May 1998	Ministère des Affaires étrangères, France 3 May 1998
Nagoya University 6 May 1997	UNESCO 20 October 1998
Académie de Strasbourg, France 3 May 1998	Institute of foreign languages, Moscow 9 March 1997
Library of Congress (In French, not in English!) 6 March 1997	Arte 3 May 1998
Radio Canada (3000 external links! not texts edited at Athena!) 6 May 1997	Crédit Mutuel 30 May 1998
University of Tel Aviv 3 November 1999	University of Liverpool 7 March 1997
Universität Potsdam 8 March 1997	Société de Langue et Littérature françaises 3 November 1999
Grand Orient de France 3 November 1999	International Dominican University 28 September 1999
La Maison franco-japonaise 4 August 2014	Swiss National Library 4 August 2014
Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale - SIENE 31 December 2018	Alexa, an Amazon Company The top 500 sites on the web By category 14 March 2019
etc.

European Journal of Mineralogy 9 March 1997	Stanford University 25 May 1998
The American Mineralogist 6 March 1997	Oxford University 3 May 1998
The Mineralogical Society of America 15 May 1997	Faculté des Sciences, Genève 6 March 1997
Nordisk Vulkanologisk Institut, Rekjavik 8 March 1997	Universidad de Zaragoza 15 May 1997
California State Polytechnic University 3 November 1999	Fersman Museum 4 August 2014
Geologicheskii Institut, Russian Academy of Science 4 August 2014	Oxford Department of Earth Sciences 4 August 2014
Smithsonian Science Libraries 4 August 2014	China Digital Science Library 4 August 2014

Mindat 25 June 2020	The Canadian Mineralogist, September 2022 1st April 2025

National Institutes of Health 16 April 2025


El. C., Le Temps 24 April 1998	Jeanne Suhamy, Telerama November 1997
Pierre-Louis Chantre, L'Hebdo 13 February 1997	Mathieu van Berchem, Tribune de Genève 6 November 1998
François Bon, Journal de Genève 21 December 1997	Yasuhico Mori, Yomiuri Shimbun Already in 1996...
Jacquesson et Rivier (pdf document) 1999	.