"Brian Hill" wrote:

I remember the BBSs in the 80s but not the WWW.
B.H.


The internet existed, as did services like telnet and ftp as well as
non-internet based services such as usenet and mail, which could be
carried over either TCP/IP or UUCP. BBS's were small potatoes,
except for maybe the biggest fidonet systems.

Most of the internet's component networks (FYI: internet is not
International Network; it is a network of networks, just as an
interstate highway connects other state highways, not homes or
businesses) had names like BITnet, EARN, CSNET, MFEnet, ESnet, NSI,
NSN, SPAN, CITNET, SDnet, AlohaNet... and those were just US-centric
ones. Imagine trying to send mail to someone in the UK on JANET,
where the DNS names were reversed in honor of them driving on the
wrong side of the road:

n-relay

Need to talk to someone in Spain?

C=es/A= /P=iris/O-iris-dcp/S=barbara

....ahh, the good ol' days...


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Eric F. Richards

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