{"id":3392,"date":"2011-07-15T08:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2011-07-20T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:03:33","slug":"uncs-email-explosion-1994-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/uncs-email-explosion-1994-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC&#8217;s email explosion &#8211; 1994 #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  t<a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/email-explosion-1994.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UNC Email Explosion 1994\" src=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/email-explosion-1994.png\" title=\"UNC Email Explosion 1994\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"327\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the archives of Speed Hallman. The same day a story ran in the Daily Tar Heel about a new course in <em>&#8220;Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting&#8221;<\/em>, this chart ran as part of a story on UNC&#8217;s email explosion. It shows that the semester was beginning with a giant increase in Internet\/email ids &#8212; by 1,900 raising the total UNC email space to over 14,000. Note that email and Internet confused even then. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder if UNC&#8217;s ending of just over a decade of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BITNET\">BITNET<\/a> involvement was part of the cause of the increase and of the confusion. Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/comphist\/timeline\">UNC ceased BITNET membership on August 9, 1993 according to the Timeline of UNC Chapel Hill Computing History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the more limited BITNET email for the more sophisticated Internet email, which had existed side-by-side with BITNET mail, was UNC&#8217;s first #noemail move. <\/p>\n<p>[graph source: Daily Tar Heel, November 2, 1994]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t From the archives of Speed Hallman. The same day a story ran in the Daily Tar Heel about a new course in &#8220;Cyberpublishing and Cybercasting&#8221;, this chart ran as part of a story on UNC&#8217;s email explosion. It shows that the semester was beginning with a giant increase in Internet\/email ids &#8212; by 1,900 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}