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

Good morning Jacot

I greatly enjoyed what little of the event last night that I could see.  
Unfortunately my ADSL line is inadequate for any form of video streaming 
no matter what I did to the buffer factors.  Also the link ex Rhodes 
seemed to fail periodically.

Is there any chance that you have a recording of the whole event that 
can be down loaded?   I would like to see it in a complete and unbroken 
form.  It was in any case an historic occasion that needs to be shared.

Congratulations on arranging it.    It was nice to see so many familiar 
faces, including Philip Machanik who I knew at Wits before he immigrated 
with much fanfare to Aussie, and to put faces to people like Randy Bush, 
Pat Terry and others.  How young they all look. =-O

Unfortunately I didn't see you or Dave.

Thanks

Henry



On 2011/10/26 04:24 PM, F.F. Jacot-Guillarmod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's the preliminary details of an event planned for the 24th 
> November 2011
> in Grahamstown at Rhodes University:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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,

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