<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:01 PM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <<a href="mailto:tjwakeman@gmail.com" class="">tjwakeman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">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.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kids these days have it so easy!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Darrell</div></body></html>