UUCPNET n. obs.
The store-and-forward network consisting of all
the world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone
of the UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software). Any machine reachable
only via a bang path is on UUCPNET. This term has been
rendered obsolescent by the spread of cheap Internet connections in
the 1990s; the few remaining UUCP links are essentially slow
channels to the Internet rather than an autonomous network. See
network address.
The store-and-forward network consisting of all
the world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone
of the UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software). Any machine reachable
only via a bang path is on UUCPNET. This term has been
rendered obsolescent by the spread of cheap Internet connections in
the 1990s; the few remaining UUCP links are essentially slow
channels to the Internet rather than an autonomous network. See
network address.
Related:
- UUCPNET: n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the
world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of
the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software).
Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is... - Usenet /yoos'net/ or /yooz'net/ n.
[from `Users'
Network';
the original spelling was USENET, but the mixed-case... - the network n.
1. Historicaslly, the union of all the major
noncommercial,
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as ... - bang path n.
[now historical] An old-style UUCP
electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some
assumed-reachable location to the addressee,
so called because each hop is signified by a bang... - bang path: n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying
hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee,
so called because each {hop} is signified by a {bang}... - backbone site n.,obs.
Formerly, a key Usenet and email
site,
one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic... - network, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial,
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet... - Internet n.
The mother of all networks. First
incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET,
a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. ... - hop
1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series
required to get a file from point A to point B on a
store-and-forward network.
On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet)...
