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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Got you beat Mike. This one is from a bit before my time, so I got to go to my grand ma for this one, she is gone now but I can remember he talking about the internet. In those days it wasn't called the internet it was called DARPA net and there was no forums such as this one back on her days. She used to talk about using the one and only DARPA protocol called FTP, which was all there was in those days. FTP was used to list things and send files back and forth between computers, we are talking 1930's and 40's here so we are talking old school. For an example of what she was talking about try ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub this site is all FTP and that's it. You ant to talk about old school internet april hair, this is it. |
It was a bit later than the 1930's and 40's, I had a MILnet (the real world implementation of DARPAnet) account in the mid eighties. We had Telnet which gave us command line access to UNIX servers, similar to SSH, and FTP for transferring files. There was no WWW, or Email. I was in hog heaven when they put in a 9600 baud underwater cable from Kane`ohe Bay to San Diego. There were probably fewer than a couple of hundred hosts available, most were at larger universities.
Most communications was done on "bulletin boards" which was a computer, usually sitting in someone's spare bedroom, and connected to a telephone line with a dial up modem. One person at a time could dial into it, and leave messages similar to here at MR. But you had to wait for the other person to log off before you could log on. And sometimes it was a race to see who could get on first.