[Myrddin]

Rick Adams ran a good mail gateway at "seismo" before he was recruited to start up "uunet". Bell Labs ran another big gateway out of Naperville "ihnp4". My own Xenix machine in San Diego was part of that network starting in 1983. By 1985, I had a TCP/IP stack running in the machine with a SLIP connection to UCSD. It was a relief to switch from the "bang path" source routed e-mail delivery to the standard common today i.e. user@host. It was only a 2400 bps dialup.

[paulycy]

It was only a 2400 bps dialup.

That was broadband. I had a 1200. :0)