Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

[Tom Buskey]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:42 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, md, I remember, as do many or all of us, the same bunch of names for
> the systems, usually either from the Snow White gang, or Lord of the Rings,
> or Hitchhiker's Guide.  Them were the daze.  Now our brilliant successors
> name them with strings of alphanumeric characters the provenance of which
> only they, the holy annointed ones, can fathom.


Because we can't keep track of 100 systems & what they do in our head.  But
using a naming scheme means you can script it.  We don't really care about
the names otherwise.  Oh, and only one name because if there's another name,
we'll get a ticket to fix it by the name we can't script.

But, it's important to explain the scheme to users IMO.  People like to know
there are reasons and not randomness.  Hey, not everyone can remember
Illuvitar.  Or spell it :-P


> And, if memory serves, FidoNet "ran" a whole lot of those BBS thangs.
>
>
Fidonet had some cross platform too.  Mostly PC DOS, but I remember Z100
(not PC compat, but still MS-DOS) running binkyterm, opus, etc.  There was a
Linux port of Fidonet stuff as well.



> Sleep sounds good on this rainy, foggy and thunder-stormy night here in
> Vermont...cheers to our sister state of NH and the folks down in the tropics
> of Massachusetts.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>
>> >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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