[gurps] Internet on blue planet and like worlds

[David Scheidt]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Bret Indrelee <bret at io.com> wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Tom Sparks wrote:
>>
>> i am borrowing ideas from Interplanetary Internet
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet), BBS
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system) and fidoNet
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet)
>
> If you want some other background for solutions used in the bad old days of
> modems and long distance charges, I would suggest you read up on UUCP (Unix
> to Unix Copy) which was used to forward newsfeeds and e-mail.

UUCP is still around.  Still works great.  It lets you do a number of
useful things, like start a process after the file has finished
transfering, which solves a bunch of problems.

I humbly suggest, though, that for communicating between fixed points,
that fiber optic cables make more sense.

-- 
David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com