BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 under the aegis of Ira Fuchs and Greydon Freeman at the City University of New York (CUNY). The first network link was between CUNY and Yale University. From a technical point of view, BITNET differed from the Internet in that it was a point-to-point "store and forward" network. That is, e-mail messages and files were transmitted in their entirety from one server to the next until reaching their destination. From this perspective, BITNET was more like Usenet. BITNET came to mean "Because It's Time Network", although the original meaning was "Because It's There Network". It was composed only of educational institutions, although its protocols were used for a huge IBM internal network, which was larger than other networks such as ARPANET for quite a while. BITNET links originally ran at 9600 baud. The BITNET protocols were eventually ported to non IBM mainframe operating systems. At its zenith (circa 1991), BITNET extended to almost 500 organizations and 3,000 nodes. With the advent of Internet protocol suite systems and the Internet in the early 1990s, BITNET's popularity and use diminished quickly. BITNET featured e-mail and the Listserv software, but predated the World Wide Web, FTP and Gopher protocol. You could also send short messages to other users (a feature exploited by Bitnet Relay Chat), as well as files. BITNET's first electronic magazine, VM/COM, began as a University of Maine newsletter and surfaced broadly in early 1984. Nine years later, a University of Maine student would also publish the first WWW magazine. See also: *History of the Internet ==External links== * [http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/an/2000/02/a2032abs.htm A Social History of Bitnet and Listserv, 1985–1991] * [http://livinginternet.com/u/ui_bitnet.htm Living Internet - BITNET] Telecommunications history
BITNET, Bitnet, BITnet, BITNet? The variations from seemingly reputable sources are staggering. Grier and Campbell, in their scholarly social history of BITNET, consistently use Bitnet, but CREN, the closest thing we have today to a successor to BITNET, consistently uses BITNET. So, I've standardized on BITNET. Logically, "BITNet" makes to most sense to me, but I've never seen that version anywhere. ;=) User:Wfeidt 17:07 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) : I used BITNET in the mid-1980s, and I never saw it written as BITNet. I believe BITNET was the prefered form, with Bitnet a possible acceptable alternative. : IBM had a history of ALL-CAPS ACRONYMS, so this might be why BITNET is the common form. : One point on BITNET as store and forward -- I belive BITNET also allowed one to PASSTHRU (rlogin/telnet) from one machine to another on the network. I am also sure that a form of instant messaging from one node to another was possible. Perhaps BITNET was only store and forward for email. --User:Zippy 06:39, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::When I was using it in the early 90s, I referred to it as BITnet, as did most of the other munchkins with which I was associated. --User:Neschek — User:Neschek | User talk: Neschek 17:04, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 under the aegis of Ira Fuchs and Greydon Freeman at the City University of New York (CUNY). The first network link was between CUNY and Yale University. From a technical point of view, BITNET differed from the Internet in that it was a point-to-point "store and forward" network. That is, e-mail messages and files were transmitted in their entirety from one server to the next until reaching their destination. From this perspective, BITNET was more like Usenet. BITNET came to mean "Because It's Time Network", although the original meaning was "Because It's There Network". It was composed only of educational institutions, although its protocols were used for a huge IBM internal network, which was larger than other networks such as ARPANET for quite a while. BITNET links originally ran at 9600 baud. The BITNET protocols were eventually ported to non IBM mainframe operating systems. At its zenith (circa 1991), BITNET extended to almost 500 organizations and 3,000 nodes. With the advent of Internet protocol suite systems and the Internet in the early 1990s, BITNET's popularity and use diminished quickly. BITNET featured e-mail and the Listserv software, but predated the World Wide Web, FTP and Gopher protocol. You could also send short messages to other users (a feature exploited by Bitnet Relay Chat), as well as files. BITNET's first electronic magazine, VM/COM, began as a University of Maine newsletter and surfaced broadly in early 1984. Nine years later, a University of Maine student would also publish the first WWW magazine. See also: *History of the Internet ==External links== * [http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/an/2000/02/a2032abs.htm A Social History of Bitnet and Listserv, 1985–1991] * [http://livinginternet.com/u/ui_bitnet.htm Living Internet - BITNET] Telecommunications history
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BITNET, Bitnet, BITnet, BITNet? The variations from seemingly reputable sources are staggering. Grier and Campbell, in their scholarly social history of BITNET, consistently use Bitnet, but CREN, the closest thing we have today to a successor to BITNET, consistently uses BITNET. So, I've standardized on BITNET. Logically, "BITNet" makes to most sense to me, but I've never seen that version anywhere. ;=) User:Wfeidt 17:07 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) : I used BITNET in the mid-1980s, and I never saw it written as BITNet. I believe BITNET was the prefered form, with Bitnet a possible acceptable alternative. : IBM had a history of ALL-CAPS ACRONYMS, so this might be why BITNET is the common form. : One point on BITNET as store and forward -- I belive BITNET also allowed one to PASSTHRU (rlogin/telnet) from one machine to another on the network. I am also sure that a form of instant messaging from one node to another was possible. Perhaps BITNET was only store and forward for email. --User:Zippy 06:39, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::When I was using it in the early 90s, I referred to it as BITnet, as did most of the other munchkins with which I was associated. --User:Neschek — User:Neschek | User talk: Neschek 17:04, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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