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Item 341: Marcus Watts, Picospan, Grex, and The Well

Entered by cmcgee on Tue Jul 11 02:06:54 2006:

Can someone provide information for me that clarifies my hazy recollection
that Marcus Watts, Picospan, and The Well are somehow connected?
Seems to me that I heard somewhere (here probably) that Picospan was written
to help build cyber communities.  Any truth to that?
6 responses total.
#1 of 6 by cross on Tue Jul 11 02:37:00 2006:

Marcus Watts wrote Picospan.
The Well was built around using Picospan as a conferencing system.

#2 of 6 by cmcgee on Tue Jul 11 03:52:57 2006:

Ok, more data.
When Marcus helped start Grex, after MNet, was Picospan already in place on
The Well?

#3 of 6 by cross on Tue Jul 11 12:06:58 2006:

Yes.

#4 of 6 by remmers on Tue Jul 11 12:14:45 2006:

The timeline, as best I can remember:
   1983 - M-Net debuted as a multiuser Unix-based bbs, running
          Marcus's Picospan
   1985 - The Well was launched
   1991 - Grex launched

For much more detail on all of this, see Jan Wolter's "A Partial History
of Computer Conferencing in Ann Arbor".
http://www.unixpapa.com/conf/history.html

#5 of 6 by naftee on Wed Jul 12 20:08:00 2006:

was GreX launched at the ann arbour harbour ?

#6 of 6 by mcnally on Thu Jul 13 01:20:01 2006:

 No, but Island Park played a part in the early days.

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