Friday, August 06, 1999
Early computer net to close
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The nation's first public computer network, which led to the creation of World Wide Web sites, will be an early victim of the Year 2000 bug.
Cleveland Free-Net, which started as an electronic bulletin board in 1984 at Case Western Reserve University, will go out of business Oct. 1.
The system would self-destruct after Dec. 31 because the computer program written for it can't recognize the year 2000. Operators have decided to get out early.
Raymond Neff, vice president for information services at CWRU, said rewriting Free-Net's computer program would take too much time and personnel.
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