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From: Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>
Newsgroups: news.admin.hierarchies
Subject: Re: Reviving the hierarchy notes
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:42:40 +0200
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I wrote:

> Julien ÉLIE wrote (on 2024-01-07):
>> ## BDA (German groups?)
>> checkgroups:news@*netuse.de:bda.*:doit
>> newgroup:news@*netuse.de:bda.*:doit
>> rmgroup:news@*netuse.de:bda.*:doit
> 
> That's a new one. I'll look into that.

Fascinating.

"BDA" is an abbreviation for "Bundesdatenautobahn", which translates to
"Federal Data Highway". That in turn was - AFAICT - a kind of joint
venture of Spacenet GmbH (Munich), "Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation
und Netzwerkdienste (GTN)" , Point of Presence GmbH (Hamburg), Netuse GmbH
(Kiel) and one other participant to promote the World Wide Web as a kind
of "Information Superhighway" in 1995/1996. The "Federal Data Highway" (or
"Federal Information Superhighway") had "access ramps" in those cities and
brought businesses and media (e.g. parts of the Spiegel) online.

<https://de-regio.de/show.php?hierarchy=bda>

-thh