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That figure is probably UUCP mostly not live connected hosts. I could be wrong, but 60k hosts that you could telnet to sounds like a lot of ducking hosts back t

That figure is probably UUCP mostly not live connected hosts. I could be wrong, but 60k hosts that you could telnet to sounds like a lot of ducking hosts back then. I was there too, in my late teens. God bless PG.

wkat4242 11mo ago
Yeah and a 'host' back then wasn't a cheap PC or something, they tended to be $30000 workstations or $300000 servers. At tech companies and Universities only, and mostly in the US. 60k sounds like a lot for those days. It grew massively from the early 90s. Even UUCP was still really fringe and those weren't actually connected hosts on tcp/ip. They had their own dialup mail exchange protocol similar to fidonet.
- rootusrootus 11mo ago
  Those were the days. I still remember my fido number. And I still remember just how painful it was to get uucp working properly. Ugh. But my mother had an email address years before any of her contemporaries. Being a geek was fun then.
  - angled 11mo ago
    foo@baz!quux, those were the days.
    - euroderf 11mo ago
      What, no path thru seismo ?
  - cogogo 11mo ago
    I remember my elementary school librarian had some kind of networked computer a touch later, 90-92 timeframe. She tried to explain what email was to me and I still remember being super confused. Think she even showed me on screen my I still did not get it.
    - donohoe 11mo ago
      It’s very brave to admit when something confounds you. Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email If that’s too much, think of the internet as a series of tubes, and email as a digital boomerang that returns with an out-of-office reply attached.
  - wkat4242 11mo ago
    Yeah I even had multiple fido point numbers. Because there were some alternative networks. I kinda miss it. I also used uucp for a few years though it soon got replaced with full internet. We were bit behind in Europe and we caught up fast. In the beginning I also had to use bang paths to avoid some misconfiguration upstream. Fido was actually better at this and the tool chain much more user-friendly. Though you still needed multiple. There was one to do the dial up and one to sort the retrieved mail, a "tosser" :)
keyliejener 11mo ago
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wkat4242 11mo ago

Yeah and a 'host' back then wasn't a cheap PC or something, they tended to be $30000 workstations or $300000 servers. At tech companies and Universities only, and mostly in the US. 60k sounds like a lot for those days. It grew massively from the early 90s. Even UUCP was still really fringe and those weren't actually connected hosts on tcp/ip. They had their own dialup mail exchange protocol similar to fidonet.

rootusrootus 11mo ago
Those were the days. I still remember my fido number. And I still remember just how painful it was to get uucp working properly. Ugh. But my mother had an email address years before any of her contemporaries. Being a geek was fun then.
- angled 11mo ago
  foo@baz!quux, those were the days.
  - euroderf 11mo ago
    What, no path thru seismo ?
- cogogo 11mo ago
  I remember my elementary school librarian had some kind of networked computer a touch later, 90-92 timeframe. She tried to explain what email was to me and I still remember being super confused. Think she even showed me on screen my I still did not get it.
  - donohoe 11mo ago
    It’s very brave to admit when something confounds you. Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email If that’s too much, think of the internet as a series of tubes, and email as a digital boomerang that returns with an out-of-office reply attached.
- wkat4242 11mo ago
  Yeah I even had multiple fido point numbers. Because there were some alternative networks. I kinda miss it. I also used uucp for a few years though it soon got replaced with full internet. We were bit behind in Europe and we caught up fast. In the beginning I also had to use bang paths to avoid some misconfiguration upstream. Fido was actually better at this and the tool chain much more user-friendly. Though you still needed multiple. There was one to do the dial up and one to sort the retrieved mail, a "tosser" :)

keyliejener 11mo ago

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