I learned something new today: Lotus Notes and U of I

While doing some research on the market share that Lotus Notes has, if any at all, I came across Wikipedia (of course!) and found an interesting tidbit of info:

From the History Section of this article:
Lotus Notes has a history spanning more than 20 years.^[12] Its chief inspiration was PLATO Notes, created by David Woolley at the University of Illinois in 1973.

So that means that Mosaic, which turned into the original few versions of IE, and Lotus notes both originated at U of I.

Part of me is proud, because that's my alma mater, but part of me is embarassed because mosaic and notes are so archaic.  I guess, though, they both paved the way for bigger and better versions of the program.

Now if we could just get IBM to retire notes.

Update: I found a fairly recent article on Lotus market share.  According to this site, the program had 10% of the market share in 2008.