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To: Stephen Mooney who wrote (3205)	8/26/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 3744

Actually the internet was formed by a meteor crashing to earth. In the ensuing explosion an electromagnetic pulse energized phone lines across a wide area and accidentally caused a slew of Unix type computers that were using 300 baud modems to dial into each other. The resulting connection activated some antiquated mail software that was already running under a process by co-incidence on all the machines, and started dumping files to each machine simultaneously. Since each machine had multiple hardware resources and was multitasking, the effect was a stateless network connection. It took long enough to figure out what was going on that someone noticed that in fact useful information was being exchanged and the machine connection itself could be used to solve the problem. Thus UUCP was born and the rest is history. EC<:-}