[ih] EMISARI

[Marc Handelman]

...and then there’s Jeff Kell, the main force behind RELAY over BITNET: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/fred/relay/relhis.html




On 10/1/17, 14:56, "Marc Handelman" <us.m.h at ieee.org> wrote thusly:

    Yes, I thought the lack of a reference to RELAY on BITNET, was both odd and disappointing...
    
    
    
    On 10/1/17, 14:18, "Alan Clegg" <internet-history-bounces at postel.org on behalf of alan at clegg.com> wrote thusly:
    
        Interesting article... and interesting "IRC History" that doesn't even
        mention RELAY on BITNET.  *sigh*
        
        On 10/1/17 4:32 PM, Marc Handelman wrote:
        > Joly,
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        >  
        > 
        > EMISARI was  mainframe based (corroborated here:
        > https://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm ).
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        > 
        > Marc Handelman
        > 
        > us.m.h at ieee.org
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        >  
        > 
        > *From: *<internet-history-bounces at postel.org> on behalf of Joly MacFie
        > <joly at punkcast.com>
        > *Reply-To: *<joly at punkcast.com>
        > *Date: *Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 11:38
        > *To: *"internet-history at postel.org" <internet-history at postel.org>
        > *Subject: *[ih] EMISARI
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        > ​Listening to PBS yesterday, there was an interveiew about the history
        > of FEMA, and they mentioned EMISARI as being the Ur of chat software. I
        > had heard of PLATO and EIES, but never EMISARI.
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        >  
        > 
        > I googled and found 1) a related story in Wired
        > - https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-history-of-fema/ and 2) this
        > book excerpt http://bit.ly/2fIe8Qw
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        > Questions: Packet-based? Relied on a central server? Any further insights?
        > 
        >  
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        > ​It would seem Murray Turoff deserves wider recognition.
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        > ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Turoff
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