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Article #363Re: courtesy titles
From: Simon Brooke
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:35
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:35
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Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <MPG.1830cdb874a0ef4798a23c@news.claranews.com>,
> Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Most people generally think of the Internet as being WWW which didn't
>>even exist until 1989.
>
> That's because they're wrong.
>
>>Because it was basically Usenet and E-Mail.
>
> A funny way of looking at it. Usenet existed quite independently of
> the Internet, and until the late 1980s was mostly transferred by UUCP.
This is true. Furthermore, of course, email ran perfectly well over the
store-and-forward networks (UUCP for those of us in the UN*X world, Fidonet
and other strange things for the johnny-come-latelies with mere PCs). I
still ran a UUCP node at home until 1994 or 5. It wasn't broke and I didn't
fix it.
> I was using the Internet for FTP long before I used it for mail and
> news.
In those days there was also a wonderful halfway stage called ftpmail,
where (if you used a store-and-forward network like UUCP) you could mail
ftp commands to a node on a permanently connected network, and it would
execute those commands and then mail the result back to you.
Ah! Geekery!
--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Morning had broken, and there was nothing left for us to do
but pick up the pieces.
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