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[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

On 3/31/15 2:34 PM, Darrell Walker wrote:
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>> On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:01 PM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:tjwakeman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Back then I was using a 128K Mac with terminal emulation software 
>> connected to a HP Mini in HP Labs.  HP Labs was directly connected to 
>> the backbone.  I was using Elle software on UNIX to post.  Glad those 
>> days are over.  No more UNIX shell commands or Elle.
>
> I remember those days, you had to give our your email address relative 
> to a well-known backbone site.  For example, when I started at HP, my 
> email was !hplabs!hpda!hpesoc1!dwalker.  You would find maps that 
> listed all of the major backbone sites and how they were connected, 
> then you could construct route for your email message.
>
That's interesting.  In 1986 my email address was just 
twakeman at hplabs.com  Of course I might have been physically closer to 
the building than you were.  I was in Corporate Engineering about a half 
hour walk from both the HP labs building and Xerox Park.

TeriAnn
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