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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:23:34 -0800
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Subject: Re: CM> Beginnings of E-mail
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BB&N was node one on what became the ARPANet and I think SRI was node two. At any rate messages were exchanged between them in the early 70's. The interface was essentially a subset of the UNIX mail command.
In addition and separately, also in the early 70's the Augmentation Research Center at SRI (Doug Engelbart's group) developed a mail system called The Journal, which involved archiving and cataloguing as well as addressing and transmitting text. By default, any message was stored in a central archive and catalogued by author, subject, keyword and the like. I understand the archives of this system, which ran for about ten years, are stored somewhere at Stanford.
Dirk van Nouhuys
813 San Diego Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
BB&N was node one on what became the ARPANet and I think SRI was node two. At any rate messages were exchanged between them in the early 70's. The interface was essentially a subset of the UNIX mail command.
In addition and separately, also in the early 70's the Augmentation Research Center at SRI (Doug Engelbart's group) developed a mail system called The Journal, which involved archiving and cataloguing as well as addressing and transmitting text. By default, any message was stored in a central archive and catalogued by author, subject, keyword and the like. I understand the archives of this system, which ran for about ten years, are stored somewhere at Stanford.
Dirk van Nouhuys
813 San Diego Road
Berkeley, CA 94707
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