I was talking about the Guide not the Website.

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Johan A.van Zanten <johan@giantfoo.org>
> An: zafer@gmx.org
> Kopie: netbsd-docs@netbsd.org
> Betreff: Re: netbsd historical bg
> Datum: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:18:41 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> 
> "Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@gmx.org> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > unfortunately the NetBSD Guide  doesn't cover the historical background
> of
> > NetBSD and how the Name "NetBSD" evolved and why it is called "Net" BSD.
> > Also no names are mentioned, like who formed the NetBSD Group or who
> worked
> > on NetBSD before 0.8.
> > It would be great to add more Information about NetBSD's History to the 
> > Guide.
> > 
> > 
> > Z.
> 
>  Did you look at this page?
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/about.html
> 
>   The "BSD" in our name is an obvious recognition of our heritage as a
>   derivative of 4.4BSD and 386BSD.
> 
>   Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat
>   systems; many of us have never met each other in person. We also use a
>   remote source code management system called CVS which enables a large
>   number of developers to do independent work on the same source tree
>   easily. We believe that the Internet was an enabling technology that
>   made NetBSD possible. The ?Net? in our name was thus chosen as a tribute
>   to the Internet."
> 
> 
> 
>  http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/about.html is linked to from
> http://www.netbsd.org/ -- upper left corner the very first link.
> 
> 
> There's a lot more information in the links in about.html, such as
> http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/history.html .
> 
> There's a link from history.html to this page:
> 
>  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/release/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.8
> 
>  Which lists a lot of the people who put work into the code from which
> NetBSD derived.  See the very end of the document for "We are:".
> 
> Seems like everything you are looking for is already in about.html.
> 
>  -johan
>