[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Dave Fischer]

very at zonky.org writes:

>On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:05:02 -0500, Dave Fischer wrote:
>> HTTP requests via email over uucp was also useful at one point.

>I remember http over email, but I don't recall it being used that much
>where I was. ftp over email on the other hand, I used quite a bit. In
>fact my first attempt at installing 386BSD (and then Linux) was
>'downloaded' via email. It took quite a while to assemble all those
>emails :)

I modified lynx to emit http-via-email requests. It was ridiculous.

>I was on JANET's X.25 network only from about 1986-1993 so most of
>these email services were the only way to access the Internet; manually
>routing email over multiple incompatible networks was an interesting
>challenge ... 'cbs%username::edu.mit::uk.ac.nsfnet-relay' (I think).

My first exposure to networking other than the BBS world was BITNET &
DECNET. And then my home machine was a few UUCPnet hops off the
internet for a few years, so that was a bit ugly. (I was gilly.uucp
in the uucpnet maps.)

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