How the Mac was born... supposedly...

From: Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com>
Date: Wed Jan 12 14:57:52 2005

"John Allain" wrote:
>
>What we're trying to find out, on two threads now, is how life
>was before registered domain names. It would be nice to
>see what a full email header looked like before 1985.

it depended on where you were.

I have MIT host tables from way way back which certainly allow rfc802 (1981)
style email addressing, i.e. jtw_at_xx.lcs.mit.edu style address.

Us poor folk in UUCP land had to use "bang style" address. From most
places on the internet you could reach me as "harvard!gcc-milo!brad".

At one point there where hybrid bang/at addresses. Yuck.

Here's one from a guy I worked with at the time, in '86:

ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!gcc-milo!zrm_at_ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Zigurd R. Mednieks)

blech. still, I miss 'ihnp4' and will always wonder where Indian Hills is.

-brad

ps: Zigard, if you read this, email me! :-)
Received on Wed Jan 12 2005 - 14:57:52 GMT