Moving to COFF, but Brian Dear's "The Friendly Orange Glow", about Plato, talks a lot about some of the cool stuff happening in the middle of the country. https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Orange-Glow-Untold-Cyberculture/dp/1101973633/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And later, of course, NCSA Mosaic.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 4:15 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, 11 January 2022 at 14:34:16 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:37 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems like Unix is largely a child of the coasts.
>
> We can add the eastern coast of Australia, where the original
> Wollongong group made the first V6 port to the Interdata 7/32 (not
> to be confused with the Labs port to the 8/32).

To be fair, in the case of Australia almost everybody is on the east
coast, though we have had our share of FreeBSD core team members from
the "west coast" (which is really only Perth).

Greg
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