"Friends and Partners" was announced on the Internet on
January 19, 1994,
and has an interesting history. Below, you will find a list of links
that will provide information on its initial history.
The final link is a complete paper that was given at the
Internet '95 Conference and, perhaps, provides the most thorough
overview of the motivation and implementation of this project.
The following are links to several stories and articles that have
been published about Friends and Partners:
- Knoxville News-Sentinel Article
- "UT Official and Overseas Colleague Launch New Computer Resource Linking
U.S., Russian Friends." By Jack Lail, The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Assistant Managing Editor.
- Center for Civil Society
International Net Talk Articles
- November, 1995
"Friends & Partners Demonstrate Internet for Gore-Chernomyrdin Meeting."
- May, 1994
"Friends and Partners: Goldmine of US-NIS Information on the Internet."
- Technical Implementation
- Some information on the technical implementation of our server is here.
- Internet '95 Conference
- This is a complete paper given at the Internet '95 Conference about the
Friends and Partners project.
- More Information
can be found here if you would like to learn more about Friends and Partners
and the motivation behind this effort.