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In a message dated 2/15/00 7:53:33 PM Central Standard Time, sven@lily.org 
writes:

<< What's the NEARnet, what was its use and why (and when) did it go away >>

I read a very cool history of the ARPAnet, the "pre" Internet.
They used a microwave radio link system called the AlohaNet, in Hawaii. Was 
the NEARNet similar to that?

(I know a lot of the preliminary work on ARPANet, and most of the systems 
were developed in Boston.)

Rob Walker
KLAL/Little Rock