22 Jul
2008
22 Jul
'08
1:58 p.m.
From: Allison
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 3:52 AM
> From: Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:21:09 -0700
> Allison wrote:
>> 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.
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?
There never was a "DARPA-net". ARPA was renamed DARPA more than a
decade after the ARPANET was originally created.