November 1994 I did a company internal presentation on IPng (the competing proposals that would eventually give us IPv6), more than 30 years later I'm still exclusively using an IPv4 network at home ... sigh.
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But instead of getting a multitude of interoperable operating system we ended up with a duopoly.
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myself, ch.network, July 31st 1992
I suppose this still kind of holds true for ISPs which was the topic of the discussion at the time.
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In "stuff that I've forgotten", did I coin the term "transit" (in an ISP context)? diswww.mit.edu/menelaus.mit... probably not, though nobody else is using it.
In any case a discussion that underlines how different the early Internet was from the fairy tales of today.
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🔵Juan Quemada, de la UPM , ofreció una perspectiva histórica con motivo del 40º aniversario de la primera conexión española a Internet.
👉En 1985, Juan, junto a Fernando Fournon, revolucionó la historia de las comunicaciones en España al desplegar el primer servidor de correo en #EUNET.
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So the UUCP maps might be the only way to at least roughly date it.
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Just for those wondering: while we were connecting to the shared and #EUnet co-financed Internet access in Geneva at CERN at this time, and this was the actual first Internet presence in Switzerland operating since 1989, supposedly used by @timbl.bsky.social to demo the WWW in the same year*, ...
Have you ever noticed that when the invention of the WWW by @timbl.bsky.social is discussed CERN is in Switzerland, just to mysteriously change countries when the first Internet connection in the country is mentioned?
Must be a quantum effect.
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The next couple of weeks you are all going to have to suffer from a bout of Internet nostalgia from me as I dig through my archives.
This is from a February 1993 mail that I sent to colleagues at other #EUnet national orgs asking for them to update the POP (50 total) list I was maintaining ...
