On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> wrote: > * Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira <spide...@gmail.com> [120227 08:35]: >> I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of >> the book there is an about the author section that mentions two >> contact addresses: one is an email, the other is >> microsoft!storm!stevem. The book is from 1993, so that should be an >> old address, for an old protocol. So what? That's not enough for my >> curiosity. Anyone does know where this came from? >> >> -- >> Claudio Roberto França Pereira >> > > As others have said it's a "bang path" for UUCP routing. > > It was used for mail routing even when not strictly using UUCP as well. > > This was before such thing as DNS and you got to pass around host tables > (/etc/hosts) which contained all known hosts and their IP addresses.
Predates me somewhat, but I believe UUCP operated over DUN/direct serial without the IP layer, as well. -- :wq
