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No, you're the one with incorrect history. The uucp email scheme with all the exclamation points actually appeared the better part of a decade after ARPANET ema
by drfuchs 10y ago
No, you're the one with incorrect history. The uucp email scheme with all the exclamation points actually appeared the better part of a decade after ARPANET email with the simple, direct addressing and delivery was in wide use. Perhaps you are confused because UNIX came late to the nascent Internet, while the various 36-bit DEC machines and OSes were there from the very beginning. Many thousands of students and academics were sending email to foo@bar.edu for dozens of values of bar before anybody ever saw !ucbvax! in an address.
- tedunangst 10y agoYes, that works when the network is small enough to put literally every computer in the hosts file. But once your local sysadmin tires of updating the file every time some university across the world plugs in a computer, it starts falling apart. To the original point, if I somehow plugged my time warped laptop into arpanet, nobody would be able to send me email until I made a bunch of phone calls. (But thanks for the correction, I'd overlooked even earlier history.)