UUCPNET
:UUCPNET: n. obs. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the
world's connected Unix machines (and others running some clone of the
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy) software). Any machine reachable only via a
bang path
is on UUCPNET. This term has been rendered obsolescent by
the spread of cheap Internet connections in the 1990s; the few remaining
UUCP links are essentially slow channels to the Internet rather than an
autonomous network. See network address
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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