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BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY...
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Internet > Usenet Newsgroups > History > ... Condon, Chris; NetHistory - An Informal History of BITNET and the Internet ... Grier, David Alan; Campbell, Mary; A Social History of Bitnet and Listserv, 1985–1991; April 2000...
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The international BITNET network began in the spring of 1981 when Ira H. Fuchs and Greydon Freeman, of the City University of New York and Yale University, respectively, decided that IBM's Network Job Entry (NJE) communications protocol made computer-based communication practical between their universities.
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NetHistory is maintained by Chris Condon. If you have some insight into BITNET/Internet history, or have some issues of early online network newsletters or other interesting documents, please send me e-mail at chris@condon.net...
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History BITNET, which originated in 1981 with a link between CUNY and Yale, grew rap- idly during the next few years, with management and systems services provided on a volunteer basis largely from CUNY and Yale. In 1984, the BITNET Directors established an Executive Committee to provide policy guidance.
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David Alan Grier, Mary Campbell, "A Social History of Bitnet and Listserv, 1985-1991," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 32-41, April-June, 2000. ... Abstract - A Social History of Bitnet and Listserv, 1985-1991...
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing covers the breadth of computer history through scholarly articles by leading computer scientists and historians, as well as firsthand accounts by computing pioneers. Annals is the authoritative archival journal for the history of computing.
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BITNET-NJE has had a long and productive life and has earned an important niche in the history of networking. Its passing will be a nostalgic moment for many networking pioneers.
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BITNET-NJE; The historical BITNET network ... BITNET Network Usage Policy; January 1993 ... CREN History and Future; June 199...
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History of the Oakland University Multics installation. ... [Paul Amaranth] Part of the attraction of Multics was they would only have to have one computer for administrative work as well as academic. ... This actually worked out fairly well, but the conversion of the administrative programs from an IBM environment to Multics...
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