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by oikjhgbpokj 5486 days ago
Except most of the email ran on internal company systems. To email an external address took a lot of scripts to convert to x.500 or !-path addresses

In the early 90s I remember mailing copies of our /etc/hosts to other places we worked with and email often. There was no reliable central DNS

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In the early 90s I remember mailing copies of our /etc/hosts to other places we worked with and email often. There was no reliable central DNS

That is pretty badass.