blog! “Who said "Brits think 100 miles is a long distance - Americans think 100 years is a long time"?”
It's one of those pithy little quotes which reveals so much about our two cultures. The average Briton considers anything more than a 45 minute trip a bit of a schelp, whereas Americans will seemingly drive half a day jus…
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@Edent ah, the days of incompatible email networks that you had to manually route to the target across multiple inter-network gateways.
Bang path notation
Percent notation
Coloured book protocols and Janet domain names
DECNET notation
A bit like today's proprietary instant messaging only there's no gateways for those.