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		Communitivity on Feb 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees I remember being on Tymnet and just trying addresses via a program to see if I found anything. Most interesting thing I found was a Fed Reserve address once (did not do anything with that).

Mauricebranagh on Feb 3, 2021 [–]

I used to work for Tymnet the TEC in the UK :-)

People used to do that on the x.25 network to find interesting sites.

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