History of chemical MIME

Henry Rzepa

Department of Chemistry, Imperial College

This introduces a brief chronology of the chemical MIME project, and its use in the Chime™ Netscape plug-in.
  1. September 1993:: Seven Primary Internet Media Types: text, image, video, audio, application, message, multipart
  2. January 1994: Suggestion of a new primary type to express chemical media types to the CCL List.
  3. April 1994: MDL User Meeting, London: 1st Public Talk about chemical/* Media Types by H. S. Rzepa.
  4. May 1994: Chemistry Workshop at First WWW Conference
  5. June 1994: First paper discussing the potential chemical applications of the Internet, including chemical MIME types: H. S. Rzepa, B. J. Whitaker and M. J. Winter, Chemical Applications of the World-Wide-Web, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 1907.
  6. July 1994: Demonstrator of chemical MIME, using RasMol and other helpers.
  7. November 1994: Chemime Discussion Group and Home Site http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/
  8. Jan 1995: Key full paper published demonstrating application of Chemical MIME:
    O. Casher, G. Chandramohan, M. Hargreaves, C. Leach, P. Murray-Rust, R. Sayle, H. S. Rzepa and B. J. Whitaker, "Hyperactive Molecules and the World-Wide-Web Information System", J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 2, 1995, 7.
  9. February 1995: Second IETF RFC Draft defining Principal Chemical MIME Types and current list.
  10. February 1996: First beta of Chime™, a Netscape plug-in enhancement of RasMol by MDL
  11. December 1996: Chime™ 1.0 Released by MDL with new scripting features.
  12. January 1997: IUPAC Publication: H. S. Rzepa, P. Murray-Rust and B. J. Whitaker, "The Chemical MIME Project", Chem. Intl., 1997, 19, 17.
  13. March 1997: Publication of ECHET96 CD-ROM using Chime™ as part of issue 6 of ChemComm. ISBN 0-85404-894-4.

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