As part of the program they interacted with special guests, such as Vice President Al Gore, the anthropologist Jane Goodall, Senator Dianne Feinstein and surgeon general C. Everett Koop.
Maipady Venkatesh Varma Raja officially Ramantharasugal - XI, and popularly known as the Raja of Maipady and he was the last Monarch of the Principality of Maipady Seeme which roughly comprised the area of present Kasaragod taluk of Kasaragod district, Kerala, India and some neighbouring regions.
CU-SeeMe was used by World News Now for the first television broadcast live on the Internet on Thanksgiving morning in 1995.