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In article <285c3i$kqd@genesis.mcs.com>,
La Monte H. Yarroll  <piggy@baqaqi.chi.il.us> wrote:
>Karl Denninger <karl@MCS.COM> writes:
>> MCSNet has been around in one form or another since '87. ...
>> 
>> 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 :-). 
>MUCH longer?  A bit over a year.  The oldest document I currently have
>online indicates that the Clout Project had been running for at least
>a month by 7 November 1988.  We already had an Internet connection by
>December :-).

Actually Mark Jhereg started it by creating a Domain Park (chicago.org?)
when he moved here from Michigan, where he had helped set up one
there. He got a job in Minnesota and turned everything over to
Dave Ihnat when he moved. This then metamorphosed into the Clout Project.
When Dave got worried about legal liabilities he talked to Doug Price
and I about associating it with /usr/group/chicago. Doug, Al Teslik
and I were the original signers of the incorporation papers for
/usr/group/chicago.

>If we're going to be throwing around firsts and oldests, credit must
>definately be given to Randy Suess (and of course Ward Christiansen
><-sorry about the spelling...).  CBBS #1 went online about 15 years
>ago, and chinet came online about 10 years ago.
>
>A lot of us cut our email teeth on chinet.  I'm quite happy that
>Randy still maintains the alias piggy@chinet.chi.il.us for me.  It was
>my second email address, and my first permanent email address.

I first read about Public Access UNIX in chicago on CBBS when Randy
offered public accounts on the 3B2 named wlcrjs. I told Dave Ihnat
about it and he didn't believe me so I gave him the phone number
and told him to try it. I don't think he tried it, but when Randy
asked for help in one of the Net News groups Dave responded. I used
to use xmodem to download usenet sources like compress, xmodem and patch
from wlcrjs to my CPM machine and then upload them to work for use.
Randy usually has a lot of neat technical innovations on his systems.

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