From: malQassimRilatMion@gmail.com   
      
                HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELECOM DIGEST!   
      
   This publication was founded on August 21, 1981, and that makes it   
   forty years old today.   
      
   I'm sending this out after Midnight, so that it will appear in   
   reader's inboxes, on Usenet, and in the "Digest" version of the   
   Telecom Digest all on the same date, no matter how our publication   
   gets to you.   
      
   As a technician at New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., I helped to   
   install the first "High Speed" ananlog lines between the Artificial   
   Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T., and Bolt Beranek and Newman, the   
   first Internet Service PRovider. I feel I'm entitled to say that I was   
   "Present at the Creation" of the Internet as we came to know it, and I   
   worked in Panel, #1 Crossbar, #5 Crossbar, and ESS offices, along with   
   "T" carrier equipments from the "D1" to the "D4" banks, and on L5   
   Carrier, Microwave, IMTS Mobile, and Ship-To-Shore radio systems: I   
   welcome comments and remembrances from others who worked on the   
   earlier software, hardware, and protocols which made today's telephone   
   and Internet networks possible.   
      
   On this special day, let's hear from all the old hands about the   
   Digest's past, what you think the future holds, and thoughts about how   
   we'll get there.   
      
   I look forward to the years to come. I've been the Moderator here   
   since 2007, and with any luck, I'll make it to the Digest's 50th.   
      
   Bill   
      
   --   
   Bill Horne   
   (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)   
      
   "I've been aware of the time going by   
   they say in the end it's the wink of an eye"   
   (Jackson Browne, "The Pretender")   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)