[2718] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Perot & frustrations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Gunshannon)
Mon Apr 27 18:29:03 1992
From: Bill Gunshannon <bill@tuatara.uofs.edu>
To: steve@cise.cise.nsf.gov (Stephen Wolff)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 18:26:25 EDT
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9204271947.AA29059@ncri>; from "Stephen Wolff" at Apr 27, 92 3:47 pm
A little bit of research and I came up with the original.
Anyone care to comment??
bill
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> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 11:54:40 -0700
> From: Dave Hughes <daveh@csn.org>
> Message-Id: <199202141854.AA28402@teal.csn.org>
> To: com-priv@psi.com
> Status: RO
>
> Bob Horvitz is in Prague, and announced the opening of the Internet
> by telneting into the Well. Then left a later message summing up
> what was told to the packed-auditorium audience, in English. This
> is just an extract
> ----------------
> Anyway...
>
> The US National Science Foundation is making it possible for
> Czechoslovakia to offer free Internet access to any college student or
> faculty member who wants one, by covering the cost of a leased line
> connecting Prague to Linz, Austria. The French informatics center
> called INRIA helped with the hardware and software setup, though the
> small hard-working group running CSEARN did most of the work and the
> universities provide the terminals.
etc...
