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   occult (occult@vox.ominous.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 07:37:33 JST occult

   Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.

   This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.

   No DNS.

   Machines screamed at each other to swap data.

   #unix_surrealism