We have brought a message board on the door of a room in a student hall of residence into the WWW environment as a novel type of asynchronous communication system. The idea of this research came from the experience of an extensive use of such a message board in a postgraduate student hall of residence. We have tried and developed such a system on the network as a message board system on WWW for asynchronous communication. The system provides users with simple tools for drawing. Letters are coded as a collection of lines.
Users write messages by hand making use of a mouse and a tablet.
We incorporate a feature for time visualization into the system, so that messages in past would be fading out of the board gradually. This paper reports our design and implementation of a prototype system as well as its operation. The evaluation of drawing function is reported briefly. Inc. All rights reserved.