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

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Jan 30 18:29:46 CST 2007


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 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?

odu!waggen!escape!shendrix

:-)


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