uucp for sneakernet (was Re: Emulating the School...]

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Fidonet??!!!  You have put tears in my eyes... I was 20 years old, It 
was 20 years ago... there was no internet (or UUCP
nodes) in Peru... we were a bunch (only 20 people, at most) that were 
interested to connect to something that was
outside the country...  so we call (dial up)... international call to 
some phones located in the U.S. to send our request...
ah! those times... great times! (first time we connect we hire a big 
screen and project the connection so all can
see the connection... crazies, we were crazy kids! ... well, its gone!)

Since I am mounting this small lab to replicate a "XO network" with 
access to "School Server" then
I will have to add one more computer (a windows ones) to test the 
"sneaker-networking" (well... we will
walk 3 meters only! but it is the same!)...

If my memory is not wrong (we are old guys, very old!!!) I learn about 
Fidonet and Compuserve and
BBS and similar things reading a "gone" magazine named "Creative 
Computing"... I wonder if the
same "innovative" spirit of that magazine can be translated to the 
children of this generation with
the help of the XOs & OLPC...

I will check and find for all the UUCP versions (software) in the next 
days... and I will put them
in our website for anyone that want to get back some memories... (or 
help with the tests!)

Best regards,

Javier Rodriguez
Lima, Peru



John Gilmore wrote:
>> uucp ... the first place I'd turn for
>> sneaker-netting posix-ish systems together.
>>     
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
>
> Yep.  UUCP is great if there's a phone line that can dial overnight
> cheaply, but no Internet.  I released the first free implementation of
> uucp (gnuucp), which was later succeeded by my friend Ian Taylor's
> "Taylor uucp", which I believe is still the best free version.  Ian
> <ian at airs.com> may still even maintain it (last release: 1.07 in
> 2003).  See:
>
>   http://www.airs.com/ian/software.html
>
> There was also an MSDOS implementation of uuslave (the predecessor of
> gnuucp), maintained by Tim Pozar <pozar at lns.com>, which was widely
> used to gateway Fidonet nodes to Usenet/UUCP nodes.  That was the
> first project I worked on to bring thousands of 14-year-olds into the
> global network.  See:
>
>   http://www.lns.com/papers/ufgate/
>   
> If a remote school has a dialup phone connection that can run TCP/IP
> over a modem, that's probably better than running uucp over it, even
> if you can only run it at night due to telco charges.  But uucp has a
> lot of scheduling and queueing support that more modern TCP/IP systems
> have forgotten about.
>
> 	John
>
>
>
>
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