10 Sep
2011
10 Sep
'11
1:47 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
I did use UUCP forwarding on several occasions
but I never thought of the bang-path
as "my E-mail address".
This is a good point. I hadn't thought of it that way. My first
Internet email address was at UIUC in 1991:
jht(something)(a)uxa.cso.uiuc.edu. (I actually saw the uxa machine
once...I believe it was a Sequent.) After my short time there ended I
attended a local community college in 1992. They were still on a UUCP
connection that dialed up via modem every 20 minutes. My address
there was a hybrid, something like harper!timmoja at uunet.uu.net. It
must have been a transition period. I'm not certain if it could have
been addressed with pure bang paths or not. I am proud to have "been
there" at the tail end of an era, though.
Many hours were spent doing FTP by email in those college labs (full
of Hazeltine terms and IBM PS/2s.) Send a command to a gateway, get
your directory listing 20+ min later. Send a request...hope you
spelled it all right...wait 20min. No wonder I never finished school
:)
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jht