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

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 17:43:08 CST 2007


Dave Fischer wrote:
>> 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.)

Does anyone remember their bang-path?

Peace...  Sridhar



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