[ih] EUnet and "Global Internet Services"

[Johan Helsingius]

I have checked with several of my ex-colleagues, and none of them
remember any Eric Bach. One of them also found this:

https://mocten.com/cdfeeb-about

"In January 1993, EUNET launched the first online news website, 
MOCTEN.com (stands for Music Opinions Culture Technology Economy News), 
led by Eric Bach, Teus Hagen, Peter Collinson, Julf Helsingius, Daniel 
Karrenberg, Luc De Vos, Björn Eriksen, Piet Beertema, Keld Simonsen and 
Glenn Kowack."

Looking at mocten.com on the wayback machine, it seems it had been
held by some domain speculator.

So I assume it is all a domain scam. Just wonder where they got the
list of people from.

	Julf


On 22/01/2023 21:02, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I certainly never came across Eric Bach in my own contacts with EUnet 
> people. The only Eric Bach in our world that I can find is/was a 
> cryptography expert, who worked with Steve Bellovin and others in the 
> old days:
> 
> https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bach/bach.html
> 
> e.g.
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryptography-faq/part1/
> 
> Regards
>     Brian Carpenter
> 
> On 23-Jan-23 07:08, Johan Helsingius via Internet-history wrote:
>> On 22/01/2023 18:43, kilnam chon wrote:
>>>      Any idea who these guys are?
>>>   Teus Hagen and Daniel Karrenburg in Netherland who later set up 
>>> RIPE NCC.
>>
>> Thanks, but I meant the people behind the current eunet.com site and
>> "Global Internet Services".
>>
>> Interestingly, in their "About" page that has the short history of
>> EUnet, they say "Founded by group of young software and network
>> pioneers, led by Eric Bach, Teus Hagen, Peter Collinson, Julf
>> Helsingius, Daniel Karrenberg, Luc De Vos, Björn Eriksen,
>> Piet Beertema, Keld Simonsen and Glenn Kowack.". OK, I know
>> who Julf Helsingius is :), While I know/knew and worked with
>> Teus, PC, Daniel, Luc, Björn, Piet, Keld and Glenn, I have never
>> heard of Eric Bach, and it was pointed out to me that the page source
>> has "<meta name="author" content="Eric Bach">".
>>
>>       Julf