BITNET
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BITNET was a co-operative university computer network in the United States founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale.
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- computer network
- Country
- United States
- Official website
- bit.net
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- inception
- 1981-00-00
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BITNET was a co-operative university computer network in the United States founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale.
==Background== The name BITNET originally meant "Because It's There Network", but it eventually came to mean "Because It's Time Network".
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