On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:37:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it? > > Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier yet > we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but worked. > And, of course, pigeons.
Yes! Pigeons! UUCP over Avian Carrier. Later they shamelessly copied that in rfc1149 [1]. (now seriously: my first Usenet feed actually was over UUCP over... a 14.4k modem) Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrier - t
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