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Indeed, Usenet doesn't require IP to work. See UUCP[0]. Some gray beard can probably speak more intelligently than me about this, but I think people would basi
by scarmig 11y ago
Indeed, Usenet doesn't require IP to work. See UUCP[0].
Some gray beard can probably speak more intelligently than me about this, but I think people would basically specify a series of hops. Each hop would store-and-forward the message to the next hop. Nowadays people talk about delay and disruption tolerant networks, which use similar techniques.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
- hga 11y agoIf you wanted to do "retail" level transactions like sending an email, you needed to know the path, like systemA!systemB!destinationsystem!user Usenet systems had established neighbors communicating with UUCP and used a flooding algorithm to get messages to the entire network of systems. All built on top of these point-to-point links, could be done over the Internet (NNTP) but it wasn't required. This was a big enough thing that specialized modems for UUCP were popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit