[LINK] 20 years of Link?

[Roger Clarke]

At 12:46 +1100 15/10/15, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>Is it indeed the 20th year of link?
>Did I miss the anniversary discussion?

The first entry in my archive is on:
Tue, 7 Dec 1993 16:41:11 +1100
Geoff Huston, replying to Eric Wainwright, remarked:
>evidently the Internet is a cover story in this week's Time magazine!


But of course I wasn't there *quite* on Day 1, when I suspect it was just Tony, Eric and Tom?

Tom, or Tony, have your written this up somewhere?


In the early stages, Tony ran it from link at wombat.anu.edu.au.

The oldest in the link archive is two test-sends by Tony when he was migrating the list across to majordomo (predecessor of listman), c.:
Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:14:55 +1100
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1995-February/021937.html


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