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By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Apr 17 2025 08:18 am
Ni>> Interesting. I hadn't even heard about the internet until 1995, and I
PF> I remember people talking in 1993 about shell accounts at netcom, being
PF> able to bounce around the world on one phone call. About that time, my
PF> company got a 56k leased line from UC Berkeley. I had a shell account,
PF> tried playing with tools like SLiRP to connect Windows to the net, then
Just before I heard about the internet, I do remember people on some local BBSes
in my area talking about having FTP access at those BBSes and that you could ge
t to a shell and access FTP sites, download some files, then download the files
from the BBS. I remember reading some instructions and getting on a couple of F
TP sites (I don't remember where I found them), even though I didn't really know
what these FTP sites were.
Nightfox
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