Re:Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420
by arethuza on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:13AM
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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
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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...