Over the years, AFS has developed a rich and interesting history. This page is an attempt to document some of that history for posterity. For starters, here is a mostly incomplete timeline of important events in the history of AFS:
Date Important Event
1983 [[Main/AndrewProject]] started at [[Main/CarnegieMellonUniversity]]
1987 [[Main/Coda]] research work begun (based on AFS)
1988 First use of AFS version 3
  First use of AFS outside [[Main/CarnegieMellonUniversity]]
1/1988 [[Main/InstitutionalFileSystem]] project at University of Michigan - ports of AFS to mainframe, intermediate servers, disconnected operation, performance/security enhancements
6/1989 [[Main/TransarcCorporation]] founded to commercialize AFS
fall 1993 [[Main/ArlaAFS]] project started at Kungliga Tekniska H�gskolan
1998 [[Main/TransarcCorporation]] becomes wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM
2000 IBM releases [[Main/OpenAFS]] as OpenSource
-- [[JeffreyHutzelman]] - 18 Jan 2002 -- [[TedAnderson]] - 18 Jan 2002