In 1979, a friend gave me a phone number and said "call this with
a modem." I did so, and it answered "Pentagon TIP". Some experimentation
revealed the fact that I could type in the letter "C", and a number
between 1 and 255 to connect to a system on the Arpanet. At that time
you could simply use "guest" for your username and password on many
of the systems. I remember spending a long time on a system at UC
Berkeley.
Ah, those were the days.
Jeff;
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen D. Williams [mailto:sdw@lig.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:35 PM
To: strata@virtual.net
Cc: FoRK
Subject: Re: Old photos and mystory
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/ns
fnet_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.
> >
> > /"\ [---=== WSMF ----http://wsmf.org---===---]
> > \ /
> > X ASCII Ribbon Campaign
> > / \ Against HTML Mail
>
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