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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by influx on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:40PM (#30960179)
Heck, I remember browsing public ftp sites out of boredom.
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by InCityDreams on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:36PM (#30961545)
...and some not so public.

And much, much quicker to load.

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by exikyut on Friday April 08, 2022 @09:54PM (#30964593)
The day I connected "hang on, Explorer can browse FTP sites directly" and "ftp.cdrom.com" was fun.

A bit wall-of-folders and distractingly laggy, but fun.

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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by jrockway on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:56PM (#30960371)
sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by reaperducer on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:03PM (#30961190)
cannot resolve sumex-aim.stanford.edu: Unknown host
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Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames by jrockway on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:15PM (#30961329)
Yeah, it's dead. That was the InfoMac archive in the 90s. My middle school self would just download and run everything in there and found some very nifty shareware.
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