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1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats

I mentioned in my new introduction that I am interested in , and I thought I should get into this a bit more.

uucp is technically only a unix tool, or maybe toolset, that came around very early in computing (first proper release in '79), to help with early network connections.

The abbreviation is for unix-to-unix-copy, and that's exactly what it does: it copies files between different systems 1/?

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1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats

another aside: here's a map of the whole ca. 1981, linking in also Berknet (at Berkley University) and ARPAnet.

dashes and exclamation points are links

edit: now with alt-text

map of Usenet ca. 1981, shows multiple systems interconnected with different connection methods. most of them use uucp to copy messages
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meff

I saw in an earlier comment that you play around with NNCP. I've written a bunch of tools for NNCP and just love playing with it. 👋

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I scrape Reddit, Youtube, and other web content and distribute them via NNCP. I run a little NNCP-based CDN that lets me consume lots of bandwidth in high-latency, low-reliability situations. Been thinking of doing that with Bluesky Jetstream dumps also.

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I think the silliest moment I had was downloading a long-ish Youtube video (I do it at low quality) on a flight using DNS tunneling. A single video is long enough to queue up another.

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