[ih] Early Internet history

[Paul Ruizendaal]

> On 6 Jul 2018, at 22:34, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> In traditional UNIX style, UUCP had been designed without worrying about some problems -- UUCP was thinking small scale so how mail (packets or whatever got there) was not an issue.  You did your own routing. But with many, thousands of nodes, this was a huge problem.

In the 70’s the Murray Hill team was more oriented towards circuit switching than packet switching. Although uucp was an ad-hoc solution, maybe Mike Lesk’s thinking in ’76 was that uucp could eventually run over Spider/Datakit networks. In such a setup routing would be a thing that uucp delegated to the network.