UUCPNET

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  UUCPNET
       
          The international {store and forward} network consisting of
          all the world's connected {Unix} machines (and others running
          some clone of the {UUCP} software).  Any machine reachable
          only via a {bang path} is on UUCPNET.  See {network address}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]