Surf-o-matic Demo

Patrick Chan, chan@eng.sun.com

Surf-o-matic not only lets you surf the net randomly but also lets you do it automatically. It's almost as good as watching TV! Surf-o-matic delays an amount of time you set and then shows a random page on the net. You just sit back and enjoy the show.

This demo is based on Web Autopilot by Matthew K. Gray. Web Autopilot uses Netscape's new client-pull feature, which HotJava does not implement. Not to leave HotJava users out in the cold, I've whipped a quick-and-dirty applet, Surf-o-matic, that does the same job without client-pull. The following sites have graciously allowed me to use their URL list: