[ih] Early Internet history

[Miles Fidelman]

On 7/6/18 11:48 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:

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> Miles Fidelman wrote:
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>> Do I recall correctly that "uunet" was the term used to denote the
>> network of machines that could be reached by bang path addressing?
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> no.
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> usenet really was just the newsgroups.
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> the uucp mapping project defined the set of bang-path-addressible nodes.
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> neither usenet nor the uucp network could have existed without the other.
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Bringing this full circle...
Jack asked if there were any networks, before the Internet, that moved 
bits around, across systems owned by multiple people.
I suggested BITNET & the UUCP network.
Somebody said - "that's called USENET."
The question was intended to clarify that USENET and the underlying UUCP 
network were (are) separate beasts.
The ensuing discussion has made that abundantly clear - and dredged up 
some additional interesting history.

Cheers,

Miles



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