Proper noun
UUCP
(computing, Internet) Initialism of Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally for Usenet and e-mail transfers.
Africa At the beginning of the 1990s, African countries relied upon X.25 IPSS and 2400 baud modem UUCP links for international and internetwork computer communications. Source: Internet
Following public release of the software in 1980, the mesh of UUCP hosts forwarding on the Usenet news rapidly expanded. Source: Internet
At the time, it was a complement to Unix to Unix Copy Program (UUCP) mail, which was better suited for handling email transfers between machines that were intermittently connected. Source: Internet
There are reports of spontaneous Internet ( UUCP and telnet ) connections "from home" through X.25 in the USSR in as early as 1988. Source: Internet
By 1981 the number of UUCP hosts had grown to 550, nearly doubling to 940 in 1984. Source: Internet
Sites with only intermittent connections used UUCP or FidoNet and relied on the gateways between these networks and the Internet. Source: Internet