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:

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    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Date </strong></th>
    <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong> Important Event </strong></th>
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    <td>   </td>
    <td>[[Main/AndrewProject]] started at [[Main/CarnegieMellonUniversity]]</td>
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    <td>   </td>
    <td>[[Main/Coda]] research work begun (based on AFS) </td>
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    <td>   </td>
    <td> First use of AFS version 3 </td>
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    <td>   </td>
    <td> First use of AFS outside [[Main/CarnegieMellonUniversity]]</td>
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    <td> 6/1989 </td>
    <td>[[Main/TransarcCorporation]] founded to commercialize AFS </td>
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    <td>   </td>
    <td>[[Main/TransarcCorporation]] becomes wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM </td>
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    <td>   </td>
    <td>[[Main/Arla]] project started at [[Main/KunglTekniskaHogskolan]]</td>
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    <td> 2000 </td>
    <td> IBM releases [[Main/OpenAFS]] as <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenSource" target="_top">OpenSource</a></td>
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-- [[JeffreyHutzelman]] - 18 Jan 2002 -- [[TedAnderson]] - 18 Jan 2002