oneway=no and oneway=false are not actually oneway tags that need to be reversed, but oneway=1, oneway=yes and oneway=-1 are.

And when you manually reverse we don't actually change oneway tags but do reverse other direction dependent ones.

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and many other things from slightly amusing to depressing (for example a letter to the Department of the Interior in Causa SWITCH) .

Framemaker because IIRC that was what I had bought for my Spacstation 1+ which was our office machine in the beginning.

#Internet #Nostalgia

... a talk by me on the Internet at Hoffman-Roche in 91, the contracts for the 1st Internet connections of the UNICC and the @ifrc.org , yes we were brave enough to offer a SLA for the leased line connections, ...

There's a poetic justice angle to this that I might expand on later.

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Domain names are, as the name says, names and not addresses and using the same logic the BAKOM could have just as well started regulating company names.

This was later, a lot later, patched up by changing the FMG (the Swiss telecom law) and creating a specific ordinance for domain names.
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But instead of getting a multitude of interoperable operating system we ended up with a duopoly.

#EUnet #Nostalgia

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myself, ch.network, July 31st 1992

I suppose this still kind of holds true for ISPs which was the topic of the discussion at the time.

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In the mean time I'm fairly sure that the first demo was not in 89 but either late 90 or 91. There are simply conflicting accounts and as I said, this was still a non-event at the time.

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So the UUCP maps might be the only way to at least roughly date it.

#EUnet #UUCP #Nostalgia

What I'm specifically trying to pinpoint is when we started registering CH domains for UUCP sites, it doesn't seem this was announced anywhere that has survived the not quite 4 decades and maybe we just sent a mail at the time.

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1989-1990 I managed them at SWITCH on chx400, that's not a secret either. But did we stop distributing them during that period, or did something else happen?

I don't have any mail archives from that period (for obvious reasons), but maybe somebody can remember.
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... we didn't actually provide local Internet access in Geneva till 1993 (we did have mail and news customers there though).

* I can't verify this story one way or the other, while the history of the WWW is often told as a straight line going from A to B, it was anything but that.

Just for those wondering: while we were connecting to the shared and #EUnet co-financed Internet access in Geneva at CERN at this time, and this was the actual first Internet presence in Switzerland operating since 1989, supposedly used by @timbl.bsky.social to demo the WWW in the same year*, ...

1993 was a wild year with lots going on, including EUnet suing the EunetCom consortium of France Telecom and Deutsche Telecom. That was the start of too many learning experiences that to this day #OpenStreetMap suffers from now and then when I start pontificating about protecting your trademarks 😎