Acme.Serve (http://www.acme.com/java/)
A Java-based Web server; JefPoskanzer's Acme.Serve hosts our servlets, including ByteCal and Polls.

Apache (http://www.apache.org/)
A Web server; serves the Web view of BYTE's conferencing system.

EMACS (http://www.fsf.org/)
A text editor; without Richard Stallman's venerable EMACS, Unix would be useless to me.

Excite (http://www.excite.com/navigate/)
A search engine; Excite's unique query-by-example enables open-ended searches.

Hypermail (http://www.eit.com/hypermail/)
A mail-to-Web converter. Kevin Hughes contributed this invaluable tool to the Net; we use it for several internal applications.

INN (http://www.isc.org/)
An NNTP server; Rich Salz created the engine that powers both the Web and news halves of our conferencing system.

Linux (http://www.linux.org/)
An OS; actually, we use Caldera's Linux, which isn't freeware, but it would seem unfair not to mention Linux in this context.

MHonArc (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html)
A mail-to-Web converter. Earl Hood wrote this Perl suite to transform RFC822 messages into Web pages. It supports the Web view of our NNTP discussions.

Perl (http://www.perl.com/)
A programming language. Larry Wall's brainchild is the glue that binds together most everything on our site: search, forms processing, log analysis, and much more.

SWISH (http://www.eit.com/software/swish/)
A search engine; Another Kevin Hughes contribution, SWISH complements Excite's useful fuzziness with a more literal search capability.

Win32::Internet (http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/)
A Perl Web-spidering module. Aldo Calpini's WinInet enabled my associate
Dave Rowell to write a really useful automated site monitor.

Win32::ODBC (http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/)
A Perl database module. Dave Roth's ODBC module enables me to use Perl to manage and analyze a 1.6-million-user database.