Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

Jon 'maddog' Hall maddog at li.org
Wed Apr 7 22:51:07 EDT 2010


>EasyNET was around in the glorious '80s, too!

uucp(1) - Unix to Unix Copy

decvax!maddog - who needs any stinking domain names?

And surely you *name* your computer systems!

"shaman", "guru", "shamet", "wicca" - my systems all have *names*

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!  (sneezy, dopey, doc, bashful, grumpy,
sleepy, happy)....and I did not even have to look up the names...not
because of the movie, but because of the eight systems in engineering.

Now I go back to sleep.

md

P.S. Do not forget Fidonet!  Urf!



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