Reading about uucp news/mail transfers right now I can't find an answer to a question I have on wikipedia: when exactly did the @ notation (user@example.com) become the standard instead of host!intermediate!receiver bang-paths?
Starting to think about a #p2p social media protocol that doesn't fall foul of the UK's ridiculously broad #OnlineSafetyAct, and leaves what you see in your own hands.
Feed curation as active or effortless as you like, using whatever approach you choose.
So a protocol that provides the basis for user respecting apps with different approaches.
Goal: curation with zero effort via support for 'algos' that serve you rather than the other way around.
@eludom UUNET is something I used back in the day.
I doubt very much that, like TCP/IP it was a complete and adequate protocol.
My focus is here and now.
I may look at existing approaches such as #XMPP and #Nostr for comparison, and perhaps even #UUCP now you mention it but I have limited time and won't make progress if that's all I do.
You suggesting UUCP as a solution to today's problems isn't convincing because first I want to hear from you, what problems and how it solves them.
@puniko I only know about the "Airgapped Transfer Protocol" because #UUCP is old amd ancient and not really good at all and doesn't work or gets implemented on modern hardware...
Whereas #ATP aims at transfering files using only cameras and screens...
It won't replace like a #USB or #Ethernet cable but can replace a #serial console...
> See, because you need an always-on computer in order to really reliably use #decentralized social media
Bruh. #Usenet, #Fidonet and #UUCP (#UUCPnet) beg to differ (no reason you couldn't use #NNCP for Usenet now if #NNTP isn't your thing).
Thanks to abbub on IRC who was playing with Xenix 286 and was able to hack up a 1.44MB version of the N1 installer disk, I'm now running Xenix 2.3.2 on my Bondwell B310 286 laptop that I'd previously build a ram expansion board for.
@ChartreuseK@mos_8502@dankski what about Coherent? It won't provide TCP/IP but it's another one from the era and you'll have a chance to enjoy handling #UUCP ... 😂