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From: glenns%pipe@gatech.edu (Glenn R. Stone)
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Subject: re: Outline for a net history
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Date: 13 Jan 89 20:18:35 GMT
References: <2623@looking.UUCP> <288@gloom.UUCP> <2267@eos.UUCP> <10657@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <991@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <1378@igloo.UUCP>
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In article <2623@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
|Here's a list of topics for a history of the net.  Not all these are
|in the right order.  I haven't included everything here.  If you know
|an event that's not super-specific to a group, and you think was of
|prominent importance to the structure of the net, MAIL that to me.
......
|Decvax and Bill Shannon's contribution
|Imminent death of net predicted
....
|Stargate
|Imminent death of net predicted
|Big Net personal fights
	|some result in lawsuit threats (MES)
	|some result in people being bounced temporarily from the net (Maroney)
	|some result in people being removed permanently.
|The decline in propagation for groups outside of "comp" and "news"
|Battle over the expiry dates on rec.mag.otherrealms.
|The attempt to form comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac. (Webber)
|Imminent death of net predicted
....
|"jj@portal" (Rob Noha) begs for money on the net.
|General problems with Portal, and the issue of pay-for-access net sites.
|Attempts to form groups for drugs and sex.
|Creation of the "alt" hierarchy.
|Imminent death of net predicted
....
|NNTP causes news to propagate too fast.
|Crazy creation of groups in the alt hierarchy. (Weiner)
|AT&T decides not to forward mail.
|"biz" and "inet" hierarchies.  "Gnu" hierarcy.
|Imminent death of net predicted

     Gee, you wouldn't think Brad was trying to tell
     us something, would you?  I think that, even with
     all the ballyhoo, that the net is much tougher 
     than anyone gives it credit.  However, this is 
     not to say that we shouldn't be careful; this 
     is just to say that often it is not as bad as it 
     seems.  

     My two bytes' worth...

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