On 12 Mar 2014 at 20:27, Peri Hartman wrote: > Just to be clear, for those who don't distinguish the different stages of the > Internet, it really started back in the 1960s and later became the ARPANET > but, at first, only available to a handful of universities.
I was SA for a System V Unix box at a university 1984-1990 and thought it was pretty cool that I could email a friend who worked at AT&T in NJ. I had to give the complete path to her machine in the address. My machine stored net mail and forwarded it to another machine at the university a couple times a day. IIRC, that machine was configured the same way. It took a while for email to get to its destination. I think I first was on the EVDL in '94, maybe late '93, so Bruce was well ahead of me. For a while I shared my boss's email account. Our place ran a Major BBS under MSDOS and we sent and received net mail through Major's portal software to a local university's mailserver. It transferred email in the wee hours. I had a program on my home computer that grabbed all the Major BBS mail for offline reading. I got up early every day to download the EVDL messages to my computer and clear them out of the boss's mailbox, so he wouldn't fuss at me for "that weird stuff of yours." Evantually, the BBS's sysop gave me my own account. (I had a Compuserve account too - their diskette came with Spry Mosaic! - but the Major BBS account was free. ;-) I still have some of the EVDL messages from those days. Some are lost, however. Regrettably I archived them on 5.25" floppy discs, thinking those would be safer than the 20mb (later 40mb) winchester drive in my computer. They weren't. :-( Dang it, now I'm feeling old. ;-) David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
