Re: More thoughts on Revival of AppleLink Network

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Jay... thanks for sharing memories.
I'll let you know when this gets archived on the Web.
Al

Al Rogers
Executive Director
PO Box 243, Bonita, CA 91908
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From: Al Rogers <al@gsn.org>
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Subject: gsh-members> A Historic Moment! FrEdMail to Shut Down June 30, 1999
Message-ID: <7 Jan 99 16:17:25@bonita.cerf.fred.org>

*PLEASE RE-POST

NOTICE:  On June 30, 1999, the FrEdMail (Free Educational) Bulletin Board
System will cease operations!

FrEdMail was originally written in 1985 to connect students and teachers
around the world. It has faithfully fulfilled this mission for 14 years...
using the venerable and indestructible Apple IIe and IIGS computer.

With the advent of the year 2000, and the Y2K problem, the Global
SchoolNet Foundation has announced that it will cease support of the
FrEdMail Network on June 30, 1999. At that time, GSN's original FrEdMail
computer in Bonita, California will be shut down permanently after 14
years of continuous operation.

Many pioneer telecomputing teachers had their first introduction to the
benefits of collaborative learning at a distance on FrEdMail, and in many
ways those teachers have "written the book" on how to use
telecommunications technologies in the classroom.

We grew to love FrEdMail over the years, and it is with some sadness...
but also a great deal of satisfaction... to finally shut down this
venerable old network of teachers and students so that we can focus on our
primary misison now of building the global learning community on the
Internet.

As a final tribute to this phenomenon known as FrEdMail, I'd like to
invite you... whether teacher or student... to send me an email message
recounting your introduction, trials, triumphs, and anecdotes with
FrEdMail... I'd like to create a "pioneers'" web page with your stories.

Please send them to me at al@gsn.org. I'll collect them and post them on
the Web as we approach the final shutdown day of June 30, 1999.

Thanks.

Al Rogers
Executive Director, Global SchoolNet Foundation
Home of the Global Schoolhouse
Author of FrEdMail and FrEdWriter


Al Rogers
Executive Director
PO Box 243, Bonita, CA 91908

Global SchoolNet Foundation
619-475-4852 Fax: 619-472-0735
http://www.globalschoolhouse.org









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