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CONFER (software)
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<p>CONFER is one of the first computer conferencing systems. Highly sophisticated for its time, it was developed in 1975 at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Michigan/6e1Ea5xh">University of Michigan</a> by then graduate student Robert Parnes. The CONFER system continued to be a widely used communication tool until 1999. CONFER is the progenitor of the computer conferencing systems Caucus, <a href="/facts/PicoSpan/lsrHXh6z">PicoSpan</a>, and YAPP. </p>