Phish.net Upgrades and Says Goodbye to Netspace

phish.net

Farewell to Netspace.org (1994 – 2010) [Phish.net Blog]

Netspace was one of the first Linux world wide web servers, founded as a student project at Brown University in the summer of 1994.   The original computers at Brown were funded in part by a several thousand dollar contribution collected by tapers, who wanted to put up a world wide website for .net’s setlists. “.net” then operated on the early internet with only mailing listservs, FTP file transfers and a Usenet newsgroup, rec.music.phish.

Required reading for anyone that’s a tech nerd like I am. I still have great memories of building my tape list with an HTML for Dummies book while sitting in my dorm computer lab in Normal, IL. We’ve all come a long way, haven’t we?

June 19, 2010 |  by  |  Links
About the author

Justin Ward is the Editor at Live Music Blog and has been with the site from the very beginning. He currently lives in San Francisco and regularly tweets other stuff over @justinpward.

He also plays in NVO and sometimes calls himself dudha.us ("dude house"). Follow his projects over at JustinWard.org.