toad.com In World's First 100 .com Domains
cypherpunks,
Note toad.com, August 18 1987. :-)
I believe John Gilmore started cypherpunks@toad.com in September-ish
of 1992 or so, after Tim May and Eric Hughes hosted the first
physical cypherpunks meeting.
After using a buddy's password to the MIT/Sloan student Nexis account
to research on-line cash payment and reading about cypherpunks there
in an article by Kevin Kelly in the Whole Earth Quarterly, I
subscribed to cypherpunks@toad.com, and my first post was in May of
1994, or so. But, living in Boston, I never went to a physical
meeting, though I've met lots of cypherpunks face-to-face in many
other places since...
Seeing pyramid.com was a blast from the past. I first used Unix
seriously on a Pyramid machine in the first half of 1986 or so. It
had Gosling's (boo, hiss! Not Pure!) emacs on it, and, a flurry of
keystroke-recorded macro building and multiple telnet shell windows
later, I had practically automated my third-shift (real-live blue-
smock and glass-wall) Production Expeditor job at the University of
Chicago's Computation Center to about half an hour a night most
nights. On my way out the door to Boston, I did the last week more or
less remotely by dial-up. Lots of usenet news read, baseball-bat-
sized cigars burned, pizza for "breakfast", and self-taught cross-
harp harmonica playing (not necessarily in that order...:-)) in Mr.
Stallman's honor as a result of that discovery...
Obligatory Four Yorkshiremen thread to follow here, I'm sure. :-).
Cheers,
RAH
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I myself worked at Bellcore some time after this, when things were still
interesting and Bellcore was the 400lb Gorilla in all things optical.
Bellcore (now Telcordia) has suffered under consistently unimaginative Bungee
bosses, arguably the most intellectual property in one place incredibly
squandered (I'd say far more than Xerox PARC).
-TD> From: rah@shipwright.com> Subject: toad.com In World's First 100 .com
Domains> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:50:05 -0500> To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> >
cypherpunks,> > Note toad.com, August 18 1987. :-)> > I believe John Gilmore
started cypherpunks@toad.com in September-ish > of 1992 or so, after Tim May
and Eric Hughes hosted the first > physical cypherpunks meeting.> > After
using a buddy's password to the MIT/Sloan student Nexis account > to research
on-line cash payment and reading about cypherpunks there > in an article by
Kevin Kelly in the Whole Earth Quarterly, I > subscribed to
cypherpunks@toad.com, and my first post was in May of > 1994, or so. But,
living in Boston, I never went to a physical > meeting, though I've met lots
of cypherpunks face-to-face in many > other places since...> > Seeing
pyramid.com was a blast from the past. I first used Unix > seriously on a
Pyramid machine in the first half of 1986 or so. It > had Gosling's (boo,
hiss! Not Pure!) emacs on it, and, a flurry of > keystroke-recorded macro
building and multiple telnet shell windows > later, I had practically
automated my third-shift (real-live blue- > smock and glass-wall) Production
Expeditor job at the University of > Chicago's Computation Center to about
half an hour a night most > nights. On my way out the door to Boston, I did
the last week more or > less remotely by dial-up. Lots of usenet news read,
baseball-bat- > sized cigars burned, pizza for "breakfast", and self-taught
cross- > harp harmonica playing (not necessarily in that order...:-)) in Mr. >
Stallman's honor as a result of that discovery...> > Obligatory Four
Yorkshiremen thread to follow here, I'm sure. :-).> > Cheers,> RAH> ------> >
On Dec 8, 2007 1:53 PM, Tyler Durden
I myself worked at Bellcore some time after this, when things were still interesting and Bellcore was the 400lb Gorilla in all things optical. Bellcore (now Telcordia) has suffered under consistently unimaginative Bungee bosses, arguably the most intellectual property in one place incredibly squandered (I'd say far more than Xerox PARC).
the sheer amount of losses racked up as part of calculated risk / business strategy is amazing to me. i remember sprint getting mad about the price they were paying for their OC12/48 MPLS/SONET/ATM/IP switches. they hired hundreds to begin work on a switch in house, and sunk $200+ million to make it look like a believable effort. in october the vendor relented on price, and hundreds of consultants got the ax before thanksgiving, within days of the newly negotiated pricing. all of that code, design, effort tossed into the rubbish bin, having served its purpose as calculated ruse. activities like this and other canceled projects are plentiful in the industry. so much code and engineering locked away into IP asset vaults, never to be seen or used again... jeezus.
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