Xah Lee's Unixism

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

Morten Reistad <firstname at lastname.pr1v.n0> writes:
> Since I am on a roll with timelines; just one off the top of my head : 
>
> Project start     : 1964
> First link        : 1969
> Transatlantic     : 1972 (to Britain and Norway)
> Congested         : 1976
> TCP/IP            : 1983 (the effort started 1979) (sort of a 2.0 version)
> First ISP         : 1983 (uunet, EUnet followed next year)
> Nework Separation : 1983 (milnet broke out)
> Large-scale design: 1987 (NSFnet, but still only T3/T1's)
> Fully commercial  : 1991 (WIth the "CIX War")
> Web launced       : 1992
> Web got momentum  : 1994
> Dotcom bubble     : 1999 (but it provided enough bandwith for the first time)
> Dotcom burst      : 2001

oh, and here is a recent referenct to some bitnet activity:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#66
in the listserv history section

some general bitnet/earn posts:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet

more than 20 year old email reference about earn
http://www.garlic.com.~lynn/2001h.hytml#65

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