THE LEDGER-STAR
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, October 20, 1994 TAG: 9410200579
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BOSTON GLOBE
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
Click your mouse and you can hear Socks the cat meow.
Click on a picture of President Clinton, and the familiar voice booms: ``This is the very first on-line tour of the White House.''
If that's not enough, you can click to see Vice President Al Gore's favorite political cartoons, or read what the White House calls a list of the Clinton administration's many accomplishments.
The latest accomplishment, sure to be controversial as well as the talk of the high-tech world, was unveiled today at a White House ceremony hosted by Gore. The White House now has the equivalent of a presidential on-line service on the Internet, with text, pictures, sound and eventually video.
Today's unveiling of the White House ``home page'' marks the first time Clinton and company have ventured into the fast-exploding world of the Internet's ``World Wide Web,'' accessible with software called Mosaic. Users must either have an Internet connection via their computer or get access at a public site.
It's Gore's dream come true: The information highway he helped build now stops at the White House. MEMO: For Internet gurus, the address is http://www.whitehouse.gov.
KEYWORDS: INTERNET WHITE HOUSE WORLD WIDE WEB by CNB