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

[Al Kossow]

What we're trying to find out, on two threads now, is how life 
was before registered domain names. 

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In the unix world, uucp and netnews, both using bang separated
pathnames. Tom could explain the details of FIDOnet, which had
gateways. Then there were all the other corparate/educational
nets with their own naming rules (bitnet,decnet and dec's internal
networks). Most people had slow point-point links at the periphery.