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?
* 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. 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.
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+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).