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w8emv

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On the net since 1985 from Ann Arbor, MI. Ham radio operator W8EMV.

Work: infrastructure for Open Source at #Equinix

I'm on a batch of relatively specialized Mastodon instances all as https://hachyderm.io/@w8emv - if that puzzles you, just think what I need to put up with.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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So there’s a broad movement to defederate firefish.social?? https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/110787687668679908

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@CoolerPseudonym

email in the uucp era certainly was federated, and bang-path addressing meant that you had to either understand a network of hyperlinks or (later) to pay someone to do that for you. the network of systems admins that kept it all together (sometimes by hiding long-distance phone charges).

you had to find a provider first, and then you had to hope they were within local calling range and that they didn't have endless busy signals.

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@CoolerPseudonym

my first email address had a MULTICS and a MAILNET and an ARPA in it, and a couple of % signs sprinkled around for maximum confusion, and it took a number of years of hard work and mailer science to simplify that into a .edu address that you would recognize today.

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