CONFER (software)
| CONFER | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Robert Parnes |
| Developer(s) | Advertel Communication Systems, Inc. |
| Initial release | 1975 |
| Written in | FORTRAN |
| Operating system | MTS, Unix |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Computer conferencing |
CONFER is one of the first computer conferencing systems. Highly sophisticated for its time, it was developed in 1975 at the University of Michigan by then graduate student Robert Parnes. The CONFER system continued to be a widely used communication tool until 1999. CONFER is the progenitor of the computer conferencing systems Caucus, PicoSpan, and YAPP.