Hello all,
>You were probably joking about the naming of NCSA, but in case you were
>serious, I think the naming is coincidental. I've been around awhile,
and
>when the National Computer Security Association picked its name in
1989, I
>don't think I had heard of the National Center for Supercomputer
>Applications. No one in 1989 foresaw Mosaic or the web. (Though,
perhaps
>their name change from NCSA to ICSA was so people would associate them
with
>the International Customer Service Association, those sneaks! :-))
Actually, I was using a telnet client from NCSA (National Center
for Supercomputer
Applications) in 1989. It was a DOS application that ran over the old
packet driver stack.
>
>Fred
-pete
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