[ih] Who Paid for the Internet? (was Re: sad news: Peter Kirstein)

Jaap Akkerhuis jaap at NLnetLabs.nl
Tue Jan 14 04:14:56 PST 2020


 Johan Helsingius via Internet-history writes:

 > I think it was still in 1997 or 1998 that the head of one of the ESPRIT
 > projects we were involved in said "Sure, you can use TCP/IP - as long as
 > you run it over Euro-ISDN"...
 >
 > 	Julf
 >
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In the same style I remember a Daniel Karrenberg story that for a
while he ran X.25 (Frensch version) on top of TCP/IP on top of X.25 to
a Paris institute (INRIA?) to satisfy soe French Bureaucrat/Bean
Counter.

	jaap



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