Message-ID: <3.0.32.19981008105025.00a36e10@psg.com> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:50:32 -0700 From: "Steven G. Huter" <mailto:sghuter@NSRC.ORG> Subject: Re: New Technologies for Internet? To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 12:42 PM 10/7/98 -0700, Joe Monahan wrote:>I'm specifically interested in what might be appropriate for Belize.
Joe,
Belize is pretty well connected these days. Brian Candler started a uucp-based email service in 1993 at the University College of Belize, providing email to schools, NGOs, etc. And Belize Telecom has been operating a full IP link, connected to the public Internet, for a couple of years now.
There are a couple of interesting papers that outline the history of the early days stashed in
http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/ISO=BZ
It's a distributed database that various friends and colleagues around the world help us maintain with their ISP contact data, and an archive of net history. The db was started as an offshoot of our main work, dating back to 1990 or so. Some of the data are quite old, perhaps even historic by now. But it has been archived to help document the evolution of the global infrastructure - when the first points of connectivity were established, and subsequent developments leading up to the current state of networking within a particular country or region.
Steve Huter The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) http://www.nsrc.org/