I think this would be a rather interesting talk to have, as it stays close to home, and gives some of us from the later generation ideas of how the Internet evolved in Manitoba. I recall freenet from my prepubescent days, and believe I used it at one point(was it really FREE?)
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:20:58 -0600 Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you know that Elie, Manitoba was the first town in Canada, and possibly > one of the first in the world, to get an experimental FTTH voice/data/video > network in 1981? (As this was the early days of computing, the data was > actually to a Videotex / Minitel-style TV menu terminal). Ref: > http://predoc.org/docs/index-230523.html?page=7 > > I have always been interested in Manitoba telecom/IT history and thought > for the next hackathon we could have some talks in that regard, if anyone > else is interested. > > I'm inquiring with Michael Gillespie (was MB Freenet sysadmin?) and Les > (was big in BBSes I think) about possibilities. If anyone else has > suggestions please let me know. -- Kevin <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
