X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/c200369f17cd2ee22a6f4c51269e161401cbe867..e463ea6ff8337d2e540c43b0cdf90a573fb176fd:/history.mdwn diff --git a/history.mdwn b/history.mdwn index f14bf98..b279ac6 100644 --- a/history.mdwn +++ b/history.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The SIPB office was originally located in 39-541. Within a year or two, it reloc From the very very very beginning, SIPB has had meetings on Monday at 7:30. That's an international constant to which the world can synchronize. SIPB meetings have even happened with as few as 1 member showing up during winter break. -SIPB has changed in the more than two decades since its founding, but a look at the 1978 SIPB Office Manual reveals striking similarities: +SIPB has changed in the four decades since its founding, but a look at the 1978 SIPB Office Manual reveals striking similarities: > ### 1. What is the SIPB? @@ -21,5 +21,8 @@ As computing technology has progressed (and Project Athena happened), SIPB has g * Around 1988, SIPB supported the first dialup service to Athena. * SIPB provided the first support for LaTeX on Athena. * SIPB created [discuss](http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/www/discuss/discuss.html). It was modeled after forum on Multics. -* SIPB was responsible for [the original www.mit.edu web server](http://stuff.mit.edu/webmasters.html#history) in 1993; it may have been among the first 100 HTTP servers in the world. On August 8, 2004, IS&T took over the [www.mit.edu](http://www.mit.edu/) name, and SIPB's portal became [stuff.mit.edu](http://stuff.mit.edu). +* SIPB was responsible for [the original www.mit.edu web server](http://stuff.mit.edu/webmasters.html#history) in 1993; it may have been among the first 100 HTTP servers in the world. In August 1999, www.mit.edu began mirroring the official MIT website, originally on [web.mit.edu](http://web.mit.edu/). On August 8, 2004, IS&T took over the [www.mit.edu](http://www.mit.edu/) name, and SIPB's portal became [stuff.mit.edu](http://stuff.mit.edu). * SIPB was originally responsible for Linux-Athena. + + +Much more documentation from SIPB's history was incorporated in [a term paper written in 2001 by students in an MIT science-history class](http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2001/SIPB.pdf).