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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>backbone site</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="backbone-cabal.html" title="backbone cabal"/><link rel="next" href="backgammon.html" title="backgammon"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">backbone site</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backbone-cabal.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="backgammon.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="backbone-site"/><dt xmlns="" id="backbone-site"><b>backbone site</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,obs.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Formerly, a key Usenet and email site, one that processes a large
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amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of
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the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as
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of early 1993, when this sense of the term was beginning to pass out of
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general use due to wide availability of cheap Internet connections,
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included <tt class="systemitem">uunet</tt> and the mail
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machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>'s
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Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University, and the University of
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Texas. Compare <a href="../L/leaf-site.html"><i class="glossterm">leaf site</i></a>.</p><p>[2001 update: This term has passed into history. The UUCP network
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world that gave it meaning is gone; everyone is on the Internet now and
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network traffic is distributed in very different patterns. Today one might
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see references to a “<span class="quote">backbone router</span>” instead
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—ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="backbone-cabal.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="backgammon.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">backbone cabal<61></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>backgammon</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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