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Oct.
25, 1995:
Pierre C. Sibiry Traoré (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Abdoul Karim
Sylla (Boston, USA) exchange first email about a census of Malians
on the Internet
Oct. 25, 1995: Eric Stevance (Bamako, Mali) supplies first
listing of Malians on the Internet
Nov. 1, 1995: first 10 co-founders, census implementation
Jan. 22, 1996: Official birth of Malinet mailing-list, delivered
by Abdoul Karim Sylla on "troll" host at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (USA)
Oct. 31, 1996: Malinet moves to "callisto" host
at University of Sherbrooke (Canada)
Feb. 27, 1997: Malinet moves to "mamou" host at
BINTTA (Paris, France); first fully automatic version of the mailing-list
Aug. 26, 1997: Malinet moves to "djata" host at
BINTTA (Bamako, Mali); Malinet is physically located in Mali
Nov. 27-30, 1997: Malinet'97, first meeting of Malineters
is held in Washington, D.C. (USA): attendance 60+, official launch
of MaliWatch, Bayira and RMI projects
Feb. 98: Merging of Malinet (~ 450 Malians abroad) and Kumasigi
(~ 150 other Malians) mailing-lists into the Malian World Network
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