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to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: KEES VAN EETEN
date: 2018-06-19 18:34:00
subject: Keeping it private.

Hello Michiel!

19 Jun 18 18:02, you wrote to me:

 MvdV> Nets or just isolated nodes?

 MvdV> Henk's was not the first node outside North America. There were a few
 MvdV> nodes in Europe before Henk got his. But they had a node number in NA.
 MvdV> Just like Henk's first node number.

 MvdV> TTBOMK net 500 was the first /net/ outside USA.

 There was also 512 net, centered aroud people working for Philips.

 KE>> Hardly any nodelist of those times have survived, so we have to rely
 KE>> on the memory of those who lived it.

 MvdV> The human memory is notoriously unreliable. Mine is no exception. On the
 MvdV> contrary, mine is more unreliable than average. So I may have it
 MvdV> wrong...

 In general your memories are slightly better than mine. ;(

 KE>>  Also the later 500net started as a net in a USA region, before it
 KE>> went public.

 MvdV> I have seen a nodelist where it was listed in Region 2.

 I know there were some hecktick changes in the Fido software just before
 net 500 went live.

Kees

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