9 Sep
2011
9 Sep
'11
5:10 p.m.
On 2011 Sep 9, at 3:22 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
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.
I was working-on/developing email systems in the early 80's, so had a
fairly early domain-style email address. I haven't 'intentionally'
changed my email address for nearly 30 years, but it has changed
underneath me due to network developments and bureaucratic changes:
~ 1983 - 1986 : hilpert at ean.ubc.cdn <machineName> . <institution> .
<country>
~ 1986 - 1991 : hilpert at ean.ubc.ca Canada top level domain changed
to "ca"
~ 1991 - present: hilpert at cs.ubc.ca machineNames amalgamated into
departmental domain
Our project initiated the top-level domain for Canada, but there were
two sets of international standards for country-codes/abbreviations
(ISO and some other body; these were codes for general use, such as by
postal services, telecoms, governments, licensing authorities, etc.)
This was before the INA or internet authorities-of-the-time had
specified rules about top-level domains, so we chose one of the
standards and hence the domain name "cdn". As the Internet grew
internationally the other standard was decided upon for country top
level domains (the 2-letter country codes), so we switched the Canada
top-level domain to "ca".
Had an earlier (< 1983) email address when the Verex project had an
early gateway connection to the ARPANET. (Verex was an intermediate
step between Thoth and the VKernel, for those into OS history).