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 Post subject: Seeking info on two very old Go servers
Post #1 Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 6:44 pm 
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Just now, I ran across the initials GIGS and NCIC on a program I reckon hasn't been updated since the 90s. They're listed as servers. Does anyone know anything about them?

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Post #2 Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 10:12 am 
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Never heard of them, however maybe the following links help to confirm their existence:

An Italian 1998 beginner's guide about Go on the internet, http://figg.org/old_figg/www.figg.org/i ... 70-it.html, mentions telnetting to blue.ncic.ac.cn, and when I search for that domain it seems to have been a bulletin board of some kind. (Maybe the guide also exists in English somewhere?)

The British Go association Go server history page https://www.britgo.org/history/servers.html mentions GIGS as a German server.

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Post #3 Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 1:34 pm 
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Post #4 Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:07 pm 
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NCIS was a competitor to Internet Go Server some in the 1990's. As I recall it came to be due to some animosity towards the founder of IGS. People on IGS could get banned from IGS for soliciting players on IGS.

Edit: So much for my memory. After looking at the British Go page linked above it now seems I was confusing NCIC with NNGS. Sorry>

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