2. Beginnings with Internet, Unix and Linux

From 1988 to 1992 he also work as graduate technician at the Computing Center of the Mathematics Department of the University of Rome. While working with the mathematical physics group of Prof. Brunello Tirozzi, he installed in 1988 one of the first SUN server and workstation networks in Italy, and linked it to the Internet (via NSFnet, the US university network) with TCP encapsulation on DECnet, first internet connection in Rome ( and only two years after that of cnuce-cnr in Pisa). In same project he work also in support of computational algebra systems, with the distinguished mathematician Claudio Procesi and with the computer scientist Bill Shelter (Univ. Texas Austin), author of the GNU Common Lisp language, of the M software axima and the porting of the GCC on i386 with which the first Linux kernel was developed. Still in 1987 the Sun-3 used the Motorola 68000 CPU and were diskless. He register the first internet domain name in Rome, unirm1.it, and together with the german computer scientist and hacker Carlo von Loesch he installs the first IRC (Internet Relay Chat) node in Italy, ancestor of modern chat services and social networks on the Internet. To known more the talk with videos and slides: The beginnings of the Internet in Rome, 18/09/2014 (English, PDF)

During the same period he visited Geneva (CERN), Hamburg (DESY), Grenoble (ESRF), Bologna (Cineca) for short internships.

Since 1990 he collaborates with the GARR Network , which connects the 5 main Italian IT centers (Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Milan, Bari) and CERN in Geneva with an Internet backbone at 2Mbt / sec. Register and configure the Internet domain unirm1.it, first domain internet in Rome, and installs the first Gopher (ancestor of the web) and IRC (ancestor of facebook and whatsapp) servers.

It manages IT networks and services by developing and installing WWW sites among the first in Italy, since september 1992, at CSITA (Services Center for the Informatics and Telematics of the University, Genoa).

External Links:

1. SUN-3 WorkStation
2. SUN Microsystem
3. The beginnings of the Internet in Rome, PDF English, 18/09/2014
4. The beginnings of the Internet in Rome, YouTube Video 1
5. The beginnings of the Internet in Rome, YouTube Video 2
6. The beginnings of the Internet in Rome, YouTube Video 3
7. Brunello Tirozzi Art and Science
8. Bill Schelter
9. Claudio Procesi
10. Carlo von Loesch / symLynx
11. Internet_Relay_Chat
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
13. History of GARR Network ,
14. Future of Internet, Marciana Scienza 2017, part one
15. Future of Internet, Marciana Scienza 2017, part two