#blink# Wait a minute ... the kremvax hoax was in "the stone age of the Internet"???
I had a problem with that, too. The net was solidly iron age by then. I suppose the authors of the article had trouble conceiving of having to route your own email. What, "seismo!rutgers!cmu-k!mjc" was so hard? :-)
Ah yes, I was explaining the Old Days on the phone last night, remembering when I was ..!seismo!dolqci!hqhomes!glenn and the time when "smart mailers" appeared ... madbodger and I were talking about a mutual friend who was at the University of Virginia and figured we'd take a guess at a likely sitename/username for her and CC her on the conversation. A week later we started getting the "no such user" bounces from Universidadt van Ansterdam. Whoops.
Hmm. Interesting to ponder which historical periods/events correlate to which net.history events. Was the Great Renaming our Renaissance? Was the creation of the alt.* hierarchy like Martin Luther forming Protestantism? Archie, Veronica, and then the WWW being stages of the Industrial Revolution? What about DNS? I wonder whether I can stir folks up on alt.folklore.computing with this silliness...
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I had a problem with that, too. The net was solidly iron age by then. I suppose the authors of the article had trouble conceiving of having to route your own email. What, "seismo!rutgers!cmu-k!mjc" was so hard? :-)
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Hmm. Interesting to ponder which historical periods/events correlate to which net.history events. Was the Great Renaming our Renaissance? Was the creation of the alt.* hierarchy like Martin Luther forming Protestantism? Archie, Veronica, and then the WWW being stages of the Industrial Revolution? What about DNS? I wonder whether I can stir folks up on alt.folklore.computing with this silliness...