Credits
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Dedicated to the memory of

Basile Papadopoulos
and
Despina Kavalou-Papadopoulos

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Protocol lineage
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The Retro Mode of this app speaks protocols designed by other people, most of
them decades ago. Their work is the reason any of this runs.

Attributions below were taken from the specifications themselves wherever a
specification exists. Where an individual could not be confirmed from a primary
source, the project or institution is credited instead.

Archie (1989-1996)

Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and Peter Deutsch
Creators of Archie, the first Internet search engine, McGill University, 1989

Bunyip Information Systems, Inc.
Commercial development of Archie, through the final 3.5 release, 1996

ICM, University of Warsaw
Preserved the last surviving copy of the Archie source

Mark Price and Ben Grubbs, The Serial Port (https://serialport.org/)
Tracked down the last surviving copy of Archie and published it, 2024

The Suite's Archie client is original code. It speaks the Prospero ARDP
protocol rather than reusing any part of the original implementation.

Prospero and ARDP

B. Clifford Neuman, USC Information Sciences Institute
Author of the Prospero file system and of ARDP, the reliable datagram protocol
that carries an Archie query

Archie clients used as parser authorities

George Ferguson, author of xarchie, the X11 Archie client
Brendan Kehoe, author of the archie C client

Both are cited by file and line throughout this project's protocol notes. Their
parsers settled several questions about the wire format that the documentation
alone could not.

WAIS

Brewster Kahle, Harry Morris, Franklin Davis and Jonny Goldman
Authors of WAIS

Jane Smith and Jim Fullton, CNIDR
Maintained and released the free WAIS implementation

Ulrich Pfeifer and Norbert Govert
Authors of freeWAIS-sf, the code this client's Z39.50-1988 layer is built from

Gopher

Farhad Anklesaria, Mark McCahill, Paul Lindner, David Johnson, Daniel Torrey
and Bob Alberti, University of Minnesota
Authors of the Internet Gopher Protocol, RFC 1436, March 1993. Gopher was
created at Minnesota in 1991 by the team McCahill led.

Electronic mail and ARPANET FTP-Mail

Ray Tomlinson
Sent the first network email on the ARPANET in 1971, and chose the @ sign to
separate the user from the host

Jon Postel, USC Information Sciences Institute
Author of RFC 765, the File Transfer Protocol, June 1980, which this module
implements

Brian Harvey
Author of RFC 691, "One More Try on the FTP", which defines the mail extensions
this module uses

Internet Relay Chat

Jarkko Oikarinen
Created IRC in 1988, and co-author with Darren Reed of RFC 1459, the IRC
protocol specification

CU-SeeMe

Tim Dorcey and the CU-SeeMe team at Cornell University
Authors of CU-SeeMe, the first widely used Internet video conferencing system

Telnet and the terminal

Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds
Authors of RFC 854, the Telnet Protocol Specification

Digital Equipment Corporation
The VT220 terminal this module emulates

Finger

Les Earnest
Wrote the original FINGER program at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, as recorded in RFC 1288 itself

David Zimmerman
Author of RFC 1288, the Finger User Information Protocol

Quote of the Day

Jon Postel, USC Information Sciences Institute
Author of RFC 865, the Quote of the Day Protocol

The World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee
Invented the World Wide Web and HTTP, which this app's retro browser speaks

Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C
Authors of libwww, the reference HTTP library the retro browser is built on

Newspaper reader

The Internet Archive
Authors of BookReader, which presents the print edition. BookReader is AGPLv3,
and is why the whole Suite is AGPLv3.

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Third-party code
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Full licence texts are in `THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md` and the `licenses/`
directory. The components are freeWAIS-sf (CNIDR, 1993), W3C libwww 5.4.1,
FFmpeg TrueSpeech (LGPL 2.1 or later), minimp3 (CC0), the Ubuntu Font, the
Microsoft WebView2 SDK, and the Internet Archive BookReader (AGPLv3).

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Acknowledgement
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Written by Dimitri Papadopoulos for The Montreal Greek Times, with the
assistance of modern AI tools.

Thanks to the archives, mirrors and volunteers who kept this source code
readable thirty years after the servers it spoke to were switched off. Without
the people who preserved it, none of it could have been rebuilt.

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The Montreal Greek Times
https://www.greektimes.ca
