Re: 2011/11/24 - 20th Anniversary of Internet in South Africa

On 19 Nov 2011, at 9:58 PM, Henry Watermeyer wrote:

>   Our undergraduates learned well and a group of them went off to  
> start
>   Internet Solutions.   Far sighted indeed.

In the early nineties Wits undergraduates were not allowed access to  
the internet at all, and nothing motivates like the forbidden.

We worked around the restrictions, gained access, and I ended up  
moving from Wits through VWV Interactive before finding myself as part- 
author-of and maintainer of the Apache httpd webserver. I still  
remember the precise place I was standing in the Chamber of Mines  
building when I first learned the internet existed and was off limits,  
if it wasn't for that moment, my involvement in the net would probably  
have been very different. :)

Regards,
Graham
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