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2001: A Communications Anniversary
Abstract:
We are at the end of a year that provided a flood of important anniversaries important to LISA attendees. Peter will discuss the anniversaries and the significance of this confluence. Among them:
1676: Leibnitz's mechanical calculator
1876: Bell's telephone
1901: Marconi's trans-Atlantic message
1951: The junction transistor
1951: UNIVAC, first commercial
computer
1976: John Lions and students install UNIX
1976: 63 hosts on the ARPAnet
1991: Phil Zimmerman posts PGP
1991: Tim Berners-Lee posts what we now call www
1991: Linus Torvalds posts Linux .01
What a ride!
BibTeX
@inproceedings {270821,
author = {Peter Salus},
title = {2001: A Communications Anniversary},
booktitle = {15th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2001)},
year = {2001},
address = {San Diego, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-2001/2001-communications-anniversary},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
author = {Peter Salus},
title = {2001: A Communications Anniversary},
booktitle = {15th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2001)},
year = {2001},
address = {San Diego, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-2001/2001-communications-anniversary},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
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