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Bang paths are still supported in email addresses too! Your email address might be george@cmu!vax!something!mitre!foo Which meant Route the email through foo-
by spitfire 10y ago
Bang paths are still supported in email addresses too!
Your email address might be george@cmu!vax!something!mitre!foo
Which meant Route the email through foo->mitre->something->vax->cmu.
Sysadmins would often keep tables of known routes. While people would describe their route from common known routing hosts.
We were so living in the cyberpunk future then.
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoYep my connection back then was uucp on an Atari ST off 720k floppy no hard drive, through a 1200 baud modem, running a set of a mix of ported GNU utilities and Atari software to get usenet and email. My email address was a bang-path ... And we liked it!
- Arizhel 10y agoComputing was more fun back then.