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Re:Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420 by mmjaa on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:14AM (#21385836)
I'd been using the Internet for 10 years before HTTP came along - it was definitely just as useful then as it is now.

Its just prettier now.

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Re:Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420 by arethuza on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:13AM (#21386241)
I remember a lot of time using archie (xarchie) and ftp before the web became ubiquitous.
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Re:Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420 by rootbear on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:47PM (#21390686)
Back in the pre-web days, we used to get software via ftp, usually as source code tar balls, from any of several well-known archive sites. One I remember was labrea.stanford.edu. Yes, it was a tar pit...
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