Believe it or not, but this was once my e-mail address:<\/p>\n
Yep, that’s weird, but that was 1990 \u2014 before<\/em> the Internet. In fact, that’s a USENET<\/em> address, one that I stuck in my old book Staying With DOS<\/em>. I didn’t have an account at NOSC, but the computer I used ( The Theoretically, any computer on USENET could find my address because Sidebar.<\/strong> The address My USENET address was a fairly nerdy thing to put into a computer book on DOS back in 1990. That’s because few people outside the government or major universities used USENET. The PNet system in San Diego was one of the few public USENET access points. Therefore, in Staying With DOS<\/em>, I had to list three additional e-mail contacts:<\/p>\n After the book was published, I began using the Prodigy e-mail service. Books I wrote between 1990 and 1996 (or so) listed that e-mail account as well. And for a brief time, I also used AOL, though I really disliked AOL and used it only at the behest of some PR agency I was working with.<\/p>\n Eventually, of course, the Internet took over and all the various private and proprietary e-mail formats went by the wayside. I have been using Question: Do you remember your first e-mail address? Or are you still using it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Believe it or not, but this was once my e-mail address: crash!pnet01!dang@nosc.mil Yep, that’s weird, but that was 1990 \u2014 before the Internet. In fact, that’s a USENET address, one that I stuck in my old book Staying With DOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}crash!pnet01!dang@nosc.mil<\/code><\/p>\n
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\nNOSC was the name of the Navy Operational Support Center located in San Diego. MIL is its domain. The computer I used was called crash<\/em> and the service was known as PNet<\/em> (for People’s Network<\/em>). My user name was dang<\/code>.<\/p>\ncrash!pnet01!dang@nosc.mil<\/code><\/p>\ncrash<\/code>) connected to the USENET via nosc.mil<\/code>. The way the mail system worked was that mail would go to nosc.mil<\/code>, which would then forward the e-mail to crash<\/code>, then to pnet01<\/code>, then to my account, dang<\/code>.<\/p>\n!<\/code> is pronounced bang<\/em>.<\/p>\nnosc.mil<\/code> was widely known and on (what were then) fat pipes. That was all changed with the Internet, and then simplified greatly with the Domain Naming System<\/em> (DNS), which is why you can use the Internet today with names like wambooli.com<\/code> instead of numbers like 216.69.134.36<\/code>.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/216.69.134.36\/<\/code> is the same was http:\/\/www.wambooli.com<\/code>. But that name isn’t hard-wired to the address; it may change in the future. Regardless, thanks to the DNS you’ll always be able to find wambooli.com<\/code> simply by typing the name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
dgookin@wambooli.com<\/code> since 1996 when the Wambooli web page first went on-line.<\/p>\n