20th anniversary of the first Internet link to sub-Saharan Africa

Hi,

Here's the preliminary details of an event planned for the 24th November 2011
in Grahamstown at Rhodes University:

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The Function

 	o Lecture in Arts Major at 17h30

Programme

 	1 Introductions and overview by Professor Pat Terry, who will
           be the "Master of ceremonies".

 	2 Welcome by Dr Saleem Badat, the Rhodes Vice-Chancellor - What
           the 20 years means to Rhodes.

         3 Mike Lawrie - The politics: Why it happened the way it did,
           and why at Rhodes?

         4 The technology - what did it take?
           o	Randy Bush - behind the scenes in Portland, putting up
                 with people talking about "rooters" and encouraging
                 them to help themselves.
           o     Alan Barrett - what did it take to set up a standalone
                 dummy dNS for a ZA internet disconnected from the
                 Internet, and what issues were there round the cutover?
           o     Dave Wilson - The Fidonet gateway - during and after
                 the internet connection - why it continued running.
           o     Francois Jacot-Guillarmod - The Unix/uucp environmemt
                 and how TCP/IP negated the idea of the gateways
                 required in a store and forward environment.

         5 Dr Angus Hay - Keynote: Fast forward over the following 20
 	  years from someone who was a postgrad student at the
 	  University of the Witwatersrand at the time, to someone
 	  who is now CTO of Neotel.

         6 Closing. Discussion/questions?
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Keep an eye on:

 	http://www.ru.ac.za/informationtechnology/itdivision/history/

for updates and background information.

If you have any documents or images to share, please let me have a link,
or a copy?

Also, if there is somebody from your institution or organisation
who was involved at the time, but who has now retired or moved on,
please share this with them?

Everyone that's interested, or wants to catch up while everyone is pretty
much in the same place, is more than welcome.

Regards,
-- 
F.F. Jacot Guillarmod  - IT Division  - Rhodes University -  Grahamstown
   mailto:Jacot-3pOAqoja4/[email protected]  tel:+27.46.603-8600  fax:+27.46.603-8012 (imp)
The views expressed above are not necessarily those of Rhodes University

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