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Grex > Coop13 > #341: Marcus Watts, Picospan, Grex, and The Well | |
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cmcgee
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Marcus Watts, Picospan, Grex, and The Well
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Jul 11 02:06 UTC 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?
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cross
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response 1 of 6:
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Jul 11 02:37 UTC 2006 |
Marcus Watts wrote Picospan.
The Well was built around using Picospan as a conferencing system.
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cmcgee
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response 2 of 6:
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Jul 11 03:52 UTC 2006 |
Ok, more data.
When Marcus helped start Grex, after MNet, was Picospan already in place on
The Well?
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cross
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response 3 of 6:
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Jul 11 12:06 UTC 2006 |
Yes.
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remmers
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response 4 of 6:
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Jul 11 12:14 UTC 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
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naftee
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Jul 12 20:08 UTC 2006 |
was GreX launched at the ann arbour harbour ?
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mcnally
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response 6 of 6:
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Jul 13 01:20 UTC 2006 |
No, but Island Park played a part in the early days.
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