joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes: > I was a FidoNet user. A sort of distributed BBS network. Dial into a > local node, pick up and send messages. The local nodes would exchange > messages throughout the day (usually at night). Dial in the next day to > get the newly distributed message. Repeat daily. Loved my 56Kb modem. > > And, of course, CompuServe before the WWW was generally available.
ibm internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late '85/early '86. some past posts ... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet some old internal network email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet a gateway between internal network and csnet fall '82 ... reference (had similar periodic dial-up and exchange messages) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#email821022 in this old post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#59 wiki reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSNET this ibm-main mailing list originated on bitnet ... bitnet used technology similar to what was used for the internal network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet bitnet equivalent in europe was called earn ... old email from person responsible for setting up earn http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320 another dial-up network was usenet using UUCP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet originating usenet "newsgroups" ... which survives today running over tcp/ip ... as well as shadowed on google ... and this ibm-main mailing list is also gatewayed to usenet in bit.listserv hierarchy as bit.listserv.ibm-main. bitnet mailing list support done in paris (earn) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV and http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp The internal equivalent to LISTSERV was called TOOLSRUN and could operate both in a mailing list mode as well as in a usenet-like newsgroup mode. one of the reasons that internet nodes started to exceed internal network nodes ... was the communication group was enforcing terminal emulation paradigm on the internal network (so it was limited to just mainframe nodes) ... while on the internet was starting to see workstations and PCs as internet peer nodes. tcp/ip is the technology basis for the modern internet, nsfnet backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet, and cix was the business basis for the modern internet. ... misc. old email about working with entities leading up to nsfnet T1 backbone http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet wiki reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network i had T1 and faster links running internally ... in project i called hsdt ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt which was one of the reasons for the NSFNET BACKBOME RFP calling for T1. the winning bid actually put in 440kbit links ... but possibly somewhat to meet the letter of the RFP, installed T1 trunks with multiplexor running multiple 440kbit links through the T1 trunks. We made some snide remarks about they possibly could have called it at T5 network ... since some the 440kbit links may have been routed at some points in multiplexed T5 trunks. past posts mentioning internet http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet ... virtual machines, lots of online computing, the internal network technology, GML and various other stuff originated at cambridge science center ... established 1Feb1964 ... some old posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech some other about creation of the internal network (as well as technology used for bitnet) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSCS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-to-be-clever-edson-hendricks/id483020515?mt=8 and some www ... GML was invented at the science center in 1969 ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml a decade later it morphs into iso international standard sgml ... and after another decade it morphs into html at certn ... ref: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early then first web server in the US is on the slac vm/370 system http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
