17 Mar
2021
17 Mar
'21
11:18 p.m.
Connectivity evolved rapidly in the early 1980s. In 1980 I served on the
board of CSNet, which connected have-not CS departments (including Bell
Labs) via dialup and X.25 links onto the periphery of the magic circle
of Arpanet.
By 1982 it was not extraordinary that I could via international email arrange
all aspects of a trip to visit lively universities of the AUUG.
17 Mar
17 Mar
11:22 p.m.
New subject: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
I often think about Quartermains book "the matrix" and also Carl
Malamud's time couch-surfing his contact list.
Both of them were very much "of their time" -you wouldn't need to
write "the matrix" now, because convergence has taken care of many of
the meta-net issues Quartermain talked about.
Carls problem on the other hand, just got monetised into AirBNB
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:19 AM M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Connectivity evolved rapidly in the early 1980s. In 1980 I served on the
board of CSNet, which connected have-not CS departments (including Bell
Labs) via dialup and X.25 links onto the periphery of the magic circle
of Arpanet.
By 1982 it was not extraordinary that I could via international email arrange
all aspects of a trip to visit lively universities of the AUUG.
18 Mar
18 Mar
1:23 a.m.
New subject: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 7:20 PM M Douglas McIlroy <
m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Connectivity evolved rapidly in the early 1980s. In
1980 I served on the
board of CSNet, which connected have-not CS departments (including Bell
Labs) via dialup and X.25 links onto the periphery of the magic circle
of Arpanet.
I think Steve Bellovin said something about CSNET being what you got with
grants and Usenet being what grad students could afford.
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