On 09/21/2018 08:24 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/20/2018 10:50 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Well, yes it was, back in 1982; see RFC821 and /etc/services but that was "simple" and 'unauthenticated' and "insecure" and hence it was hacked and abused, so we don't use that any more. We use TLS instead. 1982 was before most people had access to the Internet or email Compared to today that is true but the time-line is that IBM released the PC 19 1980, Apple the MAC in 1984 (remember the advert?). IBM officially released the Ethernet card in what? 1984/5, I was at one of the release presentations in Toronto. Apple had Ethernet long before IBM officially had it. The saw networking, even in only in their own way, about the time that the PC third
On 2018-09-20 11:06 p.m., James Knott wrote: parties did.
Actually, the IBM PC was released in Aug. 1981, though there were other personal computers before that. However, email wasn't used on them. I also remember BBS systems, which had email, but I don't know that they initially used smtp, though they later provided email through a gateway. Also, we're not talking about network technology, but email. I worked for a telecommunications company back then and a large part of the business was something called Private Wire Services, where a customer paid for message switching between their office. They'd have a terminal, usually a Teletype machine and could send messages among their office. This sort of email had been in place for decades before there was an Internet. My first experience working with a LAN was in 1978 (Air Canada reservation system), but that was for moving data between devices, not sending messages. All the terminals, scattered around the world at air ports, travel agents etc., used modems to connect to the system and I don't think it supported email. Later on, we had Ethernet between the VAX computers, which would have supported email. Again, this would have not been smtp/pop as the system predated them. So, the first email I saw at work was the Telenet system and later Microsoft mail. There was certainly email for many years before the Internet became popular, but it was generally proprietary systems that couldn't communicate with each other. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org