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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by fortran77 on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:12PM (#20990570)
There was a time when nobody was "NAT"ed and basically every workstation had an Internet Address. I would sit at my office at Olivetti Advanced Technlogy and be able to "finger" people's workstations at Sun, HP, and Adobe and see what they were up to.
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Re:Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT by ocschwar on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:44PM (#20990790)
In my undergrad years, if the campus police got a panicky parent call, they'd send an officer to the computer club to ask us to finger every host on the campus.
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