[ih] EMISARI

[John Day]

Then you need to go back to Jim Calvin’s teleconferencing programs on Tenex in 1971-2. I still have transcriptions of the conversations we had, some at designing new versions of the code we were using.

Take care,
John

> On Oct 1, 2017, at 18:12, Guillaume Latzko-Toth <Guillaume.Latzko-Toth at com.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> 
> If you are interested in the history of online chat programs, protocols, and systems (including EMISARI, Relay, CompuServe, IRC...), you might enjoy reading the attached paper I published in 2010 in a special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. The paper benefited from archived contributions to this list so I think it's fair enough to share it here :) I have also published papers on IRC history (particularly EFnet and Undernet), and I have another paper under review which includes a case study of BITNET Relay. Email me if you are interested in them. Suggestions, corrections, and testimonies are much welcome as I am working with a colleague on a new paper on chat history and possibly a book.
> 
> Guillaume Latzko-Toth
> Université Laval, Quebec City
> 
> Le 01/10/2017 17:17, « internet-history-bounces at postel.org au nom de Alan Clegg » <internet-history-bounces at postel.org au nom de alan at clegg.com> a écrit :
> 
>    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 ).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ​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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Questions: Packet-based? Relied on a central server? Any further insights?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ​It would seem Murray Turoff deserves wider recognition.
>> 
>> ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Turoff
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