21 Jul
2008
21 Jul
'08
3:51 a.m.
Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
From: Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:21:09 -0700
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Allison wrote:
It is true that many system that didn't have connectviity to the big hub systems
that formed tha backbone if DARPA-net then later ARPAnet used UUCP to pass their
traffic?
Allison
I'm a bit surpirzed no one has mentioned
UUCP.
While uucp can be run over the internet, it is fundamentally a
store-and-forward system, and unrelated to internet protocols.
IIRC uucp was invented by Mike Lesk around 1976.