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 | AndrewProject started at ?CarnegieMellonUniversity |
| 1987 | ?Coda research work begun (based on AFS) |
| 1988 | First use of AFS version 3 |
| First use of AFS outside ?CarnegieMellonUniversity | |
| 1/1988 | ?InstitutionalFileSystem project at University of Michigan - ports of AFS to mainframe, intermediate servers, disconnected operation, performance/security enhancements |
| 6/1989 | ?TransarcCorporation founded to commercialize AFS |
| fall 1993 | ?ArlaAFS project started at Kungliga Tekniska H�gskolan |
| 1998 | ?TransarcCorporation becomes wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM |
| 2000 | IBM releases ?OpenAFS as OpenSource |
-- Jeffrey Hutzelman - 18 Jan 2002 -- Ted Anderson - 18 Jan 2002