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1. one could argue that Internet eventually got linked to BITNET by
way of relays. :-) <br>
No my first comment was that as BITNET was a store and forward
network, to my knowledge the only gateways there were, were email
gateways. Or do you remember of a way to interface from a BITNet
real time session to TCP/IP?<br>
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2. My understanding of USENET is that it was not a network as such,
but most people referred to it as the system of newsgroups using a
clever hierarchy and peer to peer for dissemination (NNTP). Again,
it was a store and forward network, this time using the UUCP suite
and dial-up. Ironically most USENET traffic as well as UUCP traffic
eventually ended up carried on TCP-IP. Still working these days.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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<div dir="ltr">BITNET and USENET eventually linked to INTERNET by
way of email relays.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Scott
O. Bradner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sob@sobco.com"
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> On Jul 6, 2018, at 12:45 AM, Miles Fidelman <<a
href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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> And, I believe that both USENET (or at least UUCP)
and BITNET predated <br>
> the TCP/IP cutover by a couple of years. They were
both decentralized <br>
> and "operated independently but cooperatively by more
than one <br>
> organization."<br>
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</span>TCP/IP - developed in mid 1970s<br>
BITNET - founded 1981 by Ira Fuchs<br>
USENET - established in 1980 by Tom Truscott<br>
(UUCP was the file copy protocol not the system)<br>
TCP/IP cutover - 1983<br>
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