Club de Télématique

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A brief history of the club

In the beginning

The Club de TeleMatique was founded back in 1980 by European civil servants.

They named it TeleMatique, mind you, and not simply "computer club", way before Clinton started talking about the infobahn :-).

We still have some of the modems they used back then, althought it really belongs to some kind of museum.

They were online, at 300 bauds.

We don't have much archive left, but from the moment the club had its own bbs (ca 1987), the goals were clear:

get as many people online as possible

show them they can get in touch with home country via eMail (we are located in Luxembourg)

the bbs was in all (then) official EC languages (but Greek, due to the lack of standardization to display Greek-too many codepages involved) in order to facilitate the first contact.

This was of course made much more easy once we got hooked up to FidoNet, around 1989.

Fidonet was but the first step.

We then went to cyberspace as well, in 1993.

Our first web site was hosted by a local provider, but soon we felt the need for our own place.

Not only did we get more physical space to give you a better service, but we got our own domain as well.

Highly symbolic, but highly practical as well.

Closer to us...

In 2002, since most everybody had internet access either at home or at work or both, we decided to re-center our activities along 4 main axes:

Linux (Unix)

Programming

Promotion of free software

The web

The BBS and the Fidonet participation were completely discontinued in october 2005.

Today

Sadly, the Club ceased to be as of January 2024.

The website (https://telematique.org), mastodon account (@ClubTelematique@mstdn.social), facebook, and RSS feed are now on automatic pilot.

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