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

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 01:44:58 CST 2007


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 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

I might be remembering wrong (It's been quite a while), but mine was 
something like:

ucbvax!vax135!cornell!eastern!fshvm1!ayengar

Peace...  Sridhar



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