For those of our members who are, like your Editor, still trembling on the brink of cyberspace, it makes sense to share details of the Ocean Liner Museum's web site.

That it exists at all is thanks to member Joseph Koshuta who heads Interactive Travel Guides, Incorporated of Great Falls, Virginia. Two years ago, Mr Koshuta suggested that he would be willing to create a web site for the Museum and, since then, word of our existence and expertise has spread throughout the world. The Ocean Liner Museum office receives approximately 20 E-Mail queries a week. All are answered promptly. Some involve requests for membership information, others ask specific liner questions; trustee emeritus Norman Morse often assists with more arcane queries. Martha Glass also reports that three tables at this year's Ocean Liner Bazaar were booked through the Internet.

Joe Koshuta was born in Cyprus in 1958, son of a Central Intelligence Agency father. In 1959, he records, he "returned to the United States via American Export's Constitution where, at the age of one, I began a life-long fascination with ships and the sea."

Koshuta attended the University of Virginia, took a degree in finance and worked in banking for a year before getting his MBA at George Washington University.

But software rather than banking intervened and he went to work for a growing software development company in 1984 for eight years.

After a trip around the world -- not by sea, alas -- he helped perfect the first integrated home banking solution on the Internet. He also developed a travel web site, TRAVEL PAGE, offering practical travel information. It is on this TRAVEL PAGE that the Museum's web site is currently hosted.

The new address for the Museum's web site is as follows: www.oceanliner.org "To visit the online home of the Museum," suggests Joe Koshuta, "all one has to do is type that address into the location space of one's Internet web browser. Traffic at the site continues to grow and we now receive hundreds of visitors each week."

What a fortuitous and obliging co-incidence that a man with Joseph Koshuta's Internet capabilities is also an ocean liner buff and a member of the Ocean Liner Museum. The Board of Trustees is extremely grateful to Joe Koshuta for his kindness in providing this splendid outreach to such a wide spectrum of the public.