(Because It's Time NETwork (or Because It's There NETwork)) A network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listser [..]

"Because It's Time" Networking Services. Low-cost, low-speed academic network consisting primarily of IBM mainframes and 9600-bps leased lines. BITNET is now a part of CREN. See also CREN.

Because Its Time NETwork. Started in 1981 by City College of New York and Yale University, it is a network linking hosts at educational and research institutions in the United States, Canada, Europe a [..]

Abbreviation for Because It's Time NETwork. An early (ca. 1981) store-and-forward digital communications network interconnecting universities and research institutions worldwide. Note: BITNET, which is now obsolete, had a purpose akin to that of the present Internet, but was not nearly so robust, and at a speed of only 9600 b/s, it could not s [..]

/bit'net/ [acronym Because It's Time NETwork] n. Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see {network, the}). The BITNET hosts are a collection of IBM dinosaurs and VAXen (the [..]

WebGuest Dictionary (Prehistoric!) network  of educational sites separated from the Internet, but connected to the Internet  through email .

(Because It's Time Network) A cooperative computer network interconnecting over 2,300 academic and research institutions in 32 countries. Originally based on IBM's RSCS networking protocol, BITNET supports mail, mailing lists, and file transfer. Now merging with CSNET and running the RSCS protocol over TCP/IP protocol (BITNET II), the net [..]

Short for Because It's Time Network, BITNET is one of the oldest and largest wide-area networks, used extensively by universities. A new version of BITNET, called BITNET-II, relies on the Interne [..]

Acronym for Because It's Time NETwork. An obsolete network used by the academic and research community for E-Mail, mailing lists, and file transfers. It is distinct from the Internet but connected to it through E-Mail and news gateways.

An academic computer network that provides interactive electronic mail and file transfer services, using a store-and-forward protocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols. BITNET-II encapsulates the BITNET protocol within IP packets and depends on the Internet to route them. There are three main constituents of the network: BITNET in the Unite [..]

('Because It's Time NETwork' or 'Because It's There NETwork') - A network of educational sites separate from the Internet. Listserv, the most popular form of email discus [..]

Abbreviation for "Because It's Time NETwork." BITNET is primarily a network of sites for educational purpose and is separate from the Internet. Email is exchanged at no charge between B [..]

(Because It's Time NETwork (or Because It's There NETwork))

(Because It¹s Time NETwork (or Because It¹s There NETwork)) -- A network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listservs, the [..]

A network of educational sites seperate from the internet, but email is freely exchanged between BITNET and the internet. BITNET is probably the only international network that is shrinking.

"Because It's Time" Network. An academic computer network that provides interactive electronic mail and file transfer services, using a store-and-forward protocol. BITNet hosts are not on the Internet per se

Acronym for Because It's Time NETwork. An obsolete network used by the academic and research community for email, mailing lists, and file transfers. It is distinct from the Internet but connected to it through email and news gateways.

An autonomous network of academic and research sites.

BITNET was a wide-area cooperative computer network made up of networks from different universities in the US. It was established in 1981 by the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Ira Fuchs and Gr [..]