From: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
To: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Mills' initial implementation of FTP - best citation?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:53:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALQ0xCAHgGM-kjk6ZE9vTgiJMqAOCzgEDFbjBZ7QkUWXMvrVMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+E3k92GRb72ERvaog-rL8cX5UwJqb0gnkRYa=fhqq0MpbCcMA@mail.gmail.com>
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We need a code repository for original code like this. Cue the backup
restoration.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 02:59 Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com> wrote:
> What is the best public, unambiguous, non-YouTube reference I can cite for
> the late David Mills' initial FTP work?
>
> I see that the wording on his Wikipedia page has the ambiguous phrase "had
> the first implementation of FTP", which has been flagged as needing
> clarification, so I intend to provide it.
>
> In both this interview:
>
> https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/113899/oh403dlm.pdf
>
> ... and this video recording of Mills himself giving a lecture at UDel:
>
> https://youtu.be/08jBmCvxkv4?t=428
>
> ... it's quite clear that it's literally true - he authored, compiled,
> installed, implemented, and tested the very first (and apparently second)
> FTP server. But Wikipedia's guidelines discourage YouTube-only citations,
> and the text in the interview seems insufficiently detailed to have
> citation value.
>
> What is the best reference I can cite?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Royce
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-22 7:41 [TUHS] " Royce Williams
2024-01-22 12:53 ` Marc Donner [this message]
2024-01-22 16:15 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2024-01-23 2:04 ` Bakul Shah
2024-01-22 21:29 Noel Chiappa
2024-01-23 13:36 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2024-01-23 4:39 Noel Chiappa
2024-01-23 5:19 ` George Michaelson
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