• The Telecom Digest is Forty Years Old! [telecom]

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 21 04:20:21 2021
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELECOM DIGEST!

    This publication was founded on August 21, 1981, and that makes it
    forty years old today.

    I'm sending this out after Midnight, so that it will appear in
    reader's inboxes, on Usenet, and in the "Digest" version of the
    Telecom Digest all on the same date, no matter how our publication
    gets to you.

    As a technician at New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., I helped to
    install the first "High Speed" ananlog lines between the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T., and Bolt Beranek and Newman, the
    first Internet Service PRovider. I feel I'm entitled to say that I was
    "Present at the Creation" of the Internet as we came to know it, and I
    worked in Panel, #1 Crossbar, #5 Crossbar, and ESS offices, along with
    "T" carrier equipments from the "D1" to the "D4" banks, and on L5
    Carrier, Microwave, IMTS Mobile, and Ship-To-Shore radio systems: I
    welcome comments and remembrances from others who worked on the
    earlier software, hardware, and protocols which made today's telephone
    and Internet networks possible.

    On this special day, let's hear from all the old hands about the
    Digest's past, what you think the future holds, and thoughts about how
    we'll get there.

    I look forward to the years to come. I've been the Moderator here
    since 2007, and with any luck, I'll make it to the Digest's 50th.

    Bill

    --
    Bill Horne
    (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

    "I've been aware of the time going by
    they say in the end it's the wink of an eye"
    (Jackson Browne, "The Pretender")

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  • From Fred Atkinson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 20 21:40:02 2021
    On Aug 20, 2021, at 9:26 PM, Bill Horne <malQassimRilatMion@gmail.com>
    wrote:

     HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELECOM DIGEST!

    This publication was founded on August 21, 1981, and that makes it
    forty years old today.

    I'm sending this out after Midnight, so that it will appear in
    reader's inboxes, on Usenet, and in the "Digest" version of the
    Telecom Digest all on the same date, no matter how our publication
    gets to you.

    Bill,

    Actually, I received it at 9:26 PM.

    I am three hours behind you!

    Regards,

    Fred


    ***** Moderator's Note *****

    That's the way it is, Fred: the East coast always sees the light
    before everyone else!

    Bill Horne
    Moderator

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