18 Mar
2021
18 Mar
'21
7:23 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 7:20 PM M Douglas McIlroy <
m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Connectivity evolved rapidly in the early 1980s. In
1980 I served on the
board of CSNet, which connected have-not CS departments (including Bell
Labs) via dialup and X.25 links onto the periphery of the magic circle
of Arpanet.
I think Steve Bellovin said something about CSNET being what you got with
grants and Usenet being what grad students could afford.