[ih] Early Internet history

[Miles Fidelman]

On 7/6/18 10:33 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:

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> 2. My understanding of USENET is that it was not a network as such, 
> but most people referred to it as the system of newsgroups using a 
> clever hierarchy and peer to peer for dissemination (NNTP). Again, it 
> was a store and forward network, this time using the UUCP suite and 
> dial-up. Ironically most USENET traffic as well as UUCP traffic 
> eventually ended up carried on TCP-IP. Still working these days.
>

That's a good point.  I too remember USENET as referring more to the 
newsgroups than to uucp transport.

Do I recall correctly that "uunet" was the term used to denote the 
network of machines that could be reached by bang path addressing?

Miles


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