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backbone site
(foldoc) | backbone site
A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or
Internet site that processed a large amount of third-party
traffic, especially home sites of any of the regional
coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as
of early 1993 included uunet and the mail machines at
Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research
Laboratories, Ohio State University and the {University of
Texas}.
Compare rib site, leaf site.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-28)
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backbone site
(jargon) | backbone site
n.,obs.
Formerly, a key Usenet and email site, one that processes a large amount of
third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the
regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of
early 1993, when this sense of the term was beginning to pass out of
general use due to wide availability of cheap Internet connections,
included uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, {
DEC}'s Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University, and the
University of Texas. Compare leaf site.
[2001 update: This term has passed into history. The UUCP network world
that gave it meaning is gone; everyone is on the Internet now and network
traffic is distributed in very different patterns. Today one might see
references to a “backbone router” instead —ESR]
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