I am old enough to remember the final year of JANET with the backwards addresses. At the time I was at Plymouth Marine Laboratory with a university email addre

I am old enough to remember the final year of JANET with the backwards addresses. At the time I was at Plymouth Marine Laboratory with a university email address of the type researcher@uk.ac.pml - i.e. backwards. However, in those days there were many different things about networks, you could have several connector types in a room so anything beyond email was a bit like the difference between travelling across state borders in the U.S. and travelling across the Iron Curtain. I can't remember how one got from one's VT terminal to the wider internet on VAX/VMS but that was possible. FTP and some Telnet was how it worked, none of this www stuff. The change of address structure to normal internet style was not that big of a change, you would think it would have been as traumatic as changing what side of the road to drive on or the Millennium Bug, but, the change happened with no huge amount of work needed or resultant disruption.