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- W-Net History: 1989 - present
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- 09/01/89 W-NET is born!
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- 02/15/90 History file added to WNETxxx.ZIP press releases.
- AMIGA conference dropped, HAMRADIO conference added.
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- 03/04/90 Corrected STARLINK outdial code for San Diego.
- W-Net national hub gets second node for NetMail.
- Disclaimer added to REMOTE.DOC list of alternate
- long-distance carriers.
- Talbott BBS joins W-Net, HUB City BBS leaves W-Net
- Network hierarchy replaces flat NODELIST
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- 04/08/90 W-Net national hub moves Hayes 9600 modem to dedicated
- NetMail node in order to improve traffic flow.
- W-Net welcomes The Caves BBS in Santa Cruz, CA
- PRODIGY conference is dropped, HOBBIES conference is added.
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- 05/05/90 W-Net welcomes the Chinchilla Appreciation Society of America
- based in Honululu, Hawii. Aloha!
- Micronet BBS gets USR HST modem which gives us full-spectrum
- coverage: Hayes, USR HST, PCPursuit, Starlink, and MERIT.
- NetMail v5.0 becomes officially designated release for W-Net.
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- 07/16/90 W-Net national hub gets Hayes Ultra 9600 v.32/MNP5 modem
- Updated REMOTE.DOC to contain entire list of HUBs, oops!
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- 09/16/90 GNOMON conference is dropped, AMIGA conference is added.
- New conference live from Saudi Arabia called SAUDI is added.
- W-NET has its 1st anniversary! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
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- 11/01/90 Added Desert Shield link to G.I.s in Saudi Arabia. Included
- WHYWNET.DOC from "Caller's Digest" magazine article.
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- 04/01/91 War is over, so D_S and SAUDI conferences have been
- dismantled. W-NET national hub install second Hayes Ultra
- v.32/MNP5 modem. Added MUSIC and MULTTASK conferences.
- MULTTASK is about the many multitaskers available and how
- to use them. Many new affiliate BBSs.
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- 05/01/91 RECOVERY conference dropped and NETWORKS conference added.
- The NETWORKS conference will be hosted by a Novell Certified
- Engineer, but will cover other networks too. W-NET hub adds
- a third node at 313-663-0649 (1200/2400 baud). Channel 8250
- quits without telling anybody. Hoboken City Lights (NJ) and
- The Wright Place (MD) become new hubs.
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- 07/01/91 Removed information regarding the MERIT network from the
- distribution WNET*.ZIP file. If you are affiliated with a
- college or university which can connect to MERIT, call the
- HAL 9000 BBS and I'll try to get you some help.
- Added the SHAREWAR author support conference, try it out!
- The PC-PIX BBS in Ann Arbor, Michigan joins W-NET.
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- 08/22/91 Added WNET.DIR to the WNET*.ZIP distribution file. This is
- a ProcommPlus directory file with many of the WNET BBS phone
- numbers in it. Bring up your ProcommPlus directory and hit
- "X" to eXchange directories. Hoboken City BBS drops out.
- Erwin Associates BBS in Rochester, NY joins as new hub.
- Removed outdated and irrelevant PCPursuit and Starlink signup
- information from REMOTE.DOC
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- 10/09/91 The MAC and NETWORKS conferences were dropped due to lack of
- popular demand. The HIFI and VIRUS conferences were added
- by request of several sysops. HAL 9000 gives away a 250 disk
- Shareware Library in commemoration of the 2nd anniversary of
- W-Net operation.
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- 11/01/91 W-NET now receives several FidoNet feeds through the 007LZ
- BBS gateway. HAL 9000 adds an unprecedented fourth modem
- node. W-NET now supports Kmail AND NetMail5.0 through the
- HAL 9000 and Wright Place hubs. HAL 9000 goes to v.32bis
- on Node #2 for 14,400 baud mail transfers.
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- 12/01/91 All FidoNet feeds, except for a special OS/2 conference are
- disconnected by popular demand. A special conference,
- SEMSOG_1, is added for the SouthEastern Michigan Systems
- Operators Group.
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- 01/22/92 Added SEMSOG_2 conference and special FidoNet feed to their
- PCBoard support echo. HAL 9000 finally gets KMail installed
- on all four modem nodes, which will be going v.32bis/v.42bis
- by the end of the month. W-NET enters its fourth calendar
- year of operation, hooray!
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- 04/15/92 Added SEMSOG_3 conference and special FidoNet feed to their
- PCBoard support echo. HAL 9000 upgrades hard disk storage
- from 330 megabytes to 1.5 gigabytes. WNET goes international
- again with Gord Saker in London, Ontario Canada. WNET
- expands further into the Great Lakes by adding new systems in
- Michigan. Our Michigan coverage now consists of Ann Arbor,
- Ypsilanti, Freeport, Flint, and Detroit. I ditched WNET.DIR
- because nobody was keeping it up to date.
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- 06/11/92 Added RLY-Support conference so W-NET joins the big network
- leagues in carrying Tech Support directly from SALT AIR BBS
- (The Home of PCBoard). All Sysops with active support
- contracts are encouraged to use it to its fullest!
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- 08/01/92 Added Qedit conference for supporting users of the popular
- Qedit software. Direct link to shareware authors!
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- 10/01/92 Internet/Usenet news and E-mail conferences added. Now
- You can access the largest conference network in the world!
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- 01/20/93 Internet/Usenet news expanded to 170 conferences worth of
- coverage. Anyone who calls is automatically granted an
- E-mail box addressed in the following defined format:
- "first.lastname@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us"
- You can send E-mail out to anywhere in the world, including
- CompuServe, MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, and Fidonet.
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