9 Sep
2011
9 Sep
'11
6:21 p.m.
jws at ni.net is about as short an address as I ever had. They were
gobbled up by a number of ISPs and lost the nifty 2 letter domain, or
abandoned it. No idea what a 2 letter one goes for now days, probably
as much asn an Apple Lisa.
Network Innovations was located in Irvine, Ca and offered dial-in PPP
service. Never had any of the other useless access methods, before that
was doing direct BBS accessing. I had net access other ways earlier,
and got a shell account (still have it) at world.std.com, the first
provider of open shell access with a system connected to the internet.
However it was way cheaper to connect via ni.net, and get into that system.
On 9/9/2011 3:22 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
I was just trawling through some of my file archives
and found my old
email address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last
year a new Alpha system came online, and new email accounts were set
up on that box.
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved
postal communication, but are moving over to email based
communication. This represents a challenge due to the fluidity of
email addresses over the course of the years.
Regards, Mark.