Tom Jennings on Plutopia Live

Tom Jennings

January 14 Plutopia Livestream with guest Tom Jennings! Jon, Scoop and Suzy talk to Tom about some of the history of network communications, as well as about current events.

Tom is a Los Angeles-based artist and technician, known for his work on FidoNet, the first message and file networking system for BBSes. He also built Wired magazine’s first internet presence, wrote the portable BIOS that led to Phoenix Technologies BIOS, ran an early regional internet service provider, The Little Garden (later incorporated as TLGnet, Inc), and maintains an informal archive of Cold War science and technology.

YouTube video of this conversation:

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