Re: Old photos and mystory

From: Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 20:34:54 PDT


In 1989/1990 I setup and managed a big chunk (25K+ systems, ae.ge.com) of 3 (ge.com).

I also spliced DNS/SMTP to 1500 workstations and an alternate uplink through X.400/OSI to the
VMS/X.400 and CCmail mess with a totally custom sendmail.cf config. I implemented a fuzzy
X.500 style aliasing system using the uucp lookup hook and a custom C program. What fun!

GEIS at the time charged $0.50/page for email on their 'public' X.400 system.

I played with A(I think), B, and C-News before INN came out.

sdw

Strata Rose Chalup wrote:

> 18.62.0.7, eddie.mit.edu, yeah!
>
> But they don't show the 10 net at MIT, which xx.lcs.mit.edu and oz.ai.mit.edu
> were on; I guess it wasn't officially NSFNet at that time, or maybe had been
> renumbered. XX at least was on the BBN Net 10 IMP upstairs on the 9th floor
> at Tech Square; wasn't paying attention to such things when they swapped that
> out and renum'd, not sure when that was.
>
> _SRC
>
> Tom WSMF wrote:
> >
> > Sometimes I see things on the net that snap home the long strange trip its
> > been. Dig this photo
> >
> > http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/full_size_images/nsfnet_map.gif
> >
> > Now find 196.26.20 (NJIT) That was where I started the mayhem on the net.
> > Before that it was all BBS land and floppys.
> >
> > Postcards from the past.
> >
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