Yes, md, I remember, as do many or all of us, the same bunch of names for the systems, usually either from the Snow White gang, or Lord of the Rings, or Hitchhiker's Guide. Them were the daze. Now our brilliant successors name them with strings of alphanumeric characters the provenance of which only they, the holy annointed ones, can fathom.
And, if memory serves, FidoNet "ran" a whole lot of those BBS thangs. Sleep sounds good on this rainy, foggy and thunder-stormy night here in Vermont...cheers to our sister state of NH and the folks down in the tropics of Massachusetts. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall <mad...@li.org> wrote: > >EasyNET was around in the glorious '80s, too! > > uucp(1) - Unix to Unix Copy > > decvax!maddog - who needs any stinking domain names? > > And surely you *name* your computer systems! > > "shaman", "guru", "shamet", "wicca" - my systems all have *names* > > Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! (sneezy, dopey, doc, bashful, grumpy, > sleepy, happy)....and I did not even have to look up the names...not > because of the movie, but because of the eight systems in engineering. > > Now I go back to sleep. > > md > > P.S. Do not forget Fidonet! Urf! > >
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