Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:16:24 -0400 From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <200209161811.g8GIBf7N075220@noc.mainstreet.net>, Mark Kent writes:
Oh yeah, I should have typed BARRNET, not BBN. Wasn't BARRNET operating on the Stanford campus prior to 1991?
Absolutely. NSFNET kicked off in 1986/1987 and BARRNET was one of the early regional networks along with NYSERNET (from which PSI was spun off), NEARNET (which was operated by the team that became BBN Planet/Genuity), and a handful of others.
Certainly SURANET and CICNET were around. I also remember MIDNET, NORTHWESTNET, SESQUINET and maybe OARNET as being NSF regionals. CERFnet was around, but not a regional. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634