[ih] Early Internet history

[Paul Vixie]

Clem Cole wrote:
>     neither usenet nor the uucp network could have existed without the
>     other.
>
> I don't think that is really correct, because they can into being
> differently.

i agree that they came into being differently. but without usenet, the 
distribution of horton's maps would not have been possible, and without 
uucpnet, replies to newsgroup postings would not have been possible. so 
i ought to have said "neither could have achieved the scale it did 
without the other". thanks for this correction.

>     uunet was a company.
>
> ​...   Rick Adam made a proposal to the USENIX BOD to
> try a at cost system that could use commercial systems to try bring the
> cost down.  UUNET was born.  It was successful and was eventually forked
> off as its own company.  ...

incidentally, when uunet technologies (a non-profit) recast itself as 
uunet communications services (a for-profit), the money left over was 
used to launch internet systems consortium (a non-profit).

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P Vixie