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In article <J6acac1w165w@eternal.chi.il.us>,
Jeff Gostin <jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us> wrote:
>les@chinet.chinet.com (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>> By the way, is it just coincidence that the free uucp connections
>> from clout are going away at precisely the time that commercial
>> providers show up in town?
>Les,
>     In case anyone hasn't told you -- that's ABSURD. MSCNet has only been
>around for the last year or so. Chinet went it's own way about the same
>time. Interaccess has been around a tad longer, I think, but I wouldn't
>swear to it. (Have I missed any?) The CLOUT project as been around for
>more than 3 years (I don't remember the exact year, so I'm playing VERY
>conservative). Let's not make this out to be any more than it is.

MCSNet has been around in one form or another since '87.  We just got our
Internet line in February, but we have been doing UUCP things since well
before ihnp4 went away (for those who remember our dear old friend :-)

As for Interactive Internet to the public, we were first by about 2 days.
Infochi was second.  I don't know the order of the rest of the current
Chicago area folks in terms of who was where first.

MCSNet has been moving mail and news much longer than CLOUT has, and we have
original black-case Telebit Trailblazers (which I bought new) to prove it :-).

I remember when a full net feed was in the single-megabyte size range.  Now
it's about 60MB/day and growing like crazy.

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