26 Jul
2016
26 Jul
'16
6:45 p.m.
On 18 Jul 2016, at 19:07, Steve Simon <steve(a)quintile.net> wrote:
what fun we had in the early 1980s when the uk
universities ran coloured book networking, that used arpanet style names but in the
reverse order. I wasssimon(a)uk.ac.leeds-poly.ee.pe.
I have a possibly-invented memory that the CS department at Edinburgh (and probably
others) ended up being called DCS because cs is a valid top-level domain, and so the
horrid sendmail magic which worked out whether addresses needed to be turned around (and,
I suppose, knew all the TLDs -- it certainly had a huge table of things) would get
confused by uk.ac.ed.cs and send things to Czechoslovakia (as then was).