Definitions for bitnet
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1. BITNETnoun

   An early North American academic computer network, supporting e-mail and listservs but pre-dating the World Wide Web.

2. Etymology: Abbreviation of Because It's There Network.

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1. BITNET

   BITNET was a co-operative U.S. university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. The name BITNET originally meant "Because It's There Network", but it eventually came to mean "Because It's Time Network".A college or university wishing to join BITNET was required to lease a data circuit (phone line) from a site to an existing BITNET node, buy modems for each end of the data circuit, sending one to the connecting point site, and allow other institutions to connect to its site free of charge.

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1. BITNET

   BITNET was a cooperative USA university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. The requirements for a college or university to join BITNET were simple: ⁕Lease a data circuit from a site to an existing BITNET node. ⁕Buy modems for each end of the data circuit, sending one to the connecting point site. ⁕Allow other institutions to connect to a site without chargeback. From a technical point of view, BITNET differed from the Internet in that it was a point-to-point "store and forward" network. That is, email messages and files were transmitted in their entirety from one server to the next until reaching their destination. From this perspective, BITNET was more like Usenet. BITNET came to mean "Because It's Time Network", although the original meaning was "Because It's There Network". Bitnet's NJE network protocols, called RSCS, were used for the huge IBM internal network known as VNET. BITNET links originally ran at 9600 baud. The BITNET protocols were eventually ported to non-IBM mainframe operating systems, and became particularly widely implemented under VAX/VMS in addition to DECnet.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bitnet in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bitnet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bitnet in a Sentence

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   Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.

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References

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