UUCP and UNT
Back in 1978, a couple of bright fellows at AT&T's Bell Labs, where the Unix
operating system was developed, wondered if computer files could just be
copied from one computer to another over a cable. State of the art data
transfer back then meant writing data to paper cards or magnetic tape and
reading them in on another computer.
The chaps with the bright idea were M.E. Lesk and A.S. Cohen and the program
they wrote to implement the idea was Unix to Unix Copy, or UUCP. The idea
caught on just about the same time Unix was taking off in popularity.
As the number of computers that could UUCP to each other grew, the first
wide-area network was born. It slowly grew to the size it has today of over
11,000 nodes, or individual computers. The UUCP network, named
after the primary software used for communication across the network in its
early days, now provides much more than simple file copying. The UUCP network
now provides electronic mail, network-based news services
and, of course, file transfer services between each computer on the network.
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