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I wrote a lot of BBS software starting from 1986. This was in Toronto mainly on the C64 (28k RAM… plus some available via switching out ROM using assembler), so

I wrote a lot of BBS software starting from 1986. This was in Toronto mainly on the C64 (28k RAM… plus some available via switching out ROM using assembler), so Spence BBS was an inspiration, but with a friend we wrote software called M1 which had creative features like user contributed ongoing stories and a way to display files or run simple scripts from any command, like a shell. Eventually around 1990 it was extended to support federated message exchange, but by then UNIX systems were entering consciousness so we switched to multi-line, uucp capable Waffle software on DOS, then Xenix, BSD/OS and finally Linux around 1993 as it became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online

rsync 10y ago
" ... around 1993 as it became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" I remember "io.org" as the shortest domain name I knew in 1993 and adopted it as my default password for anonymous ftp logins. In fact to this day if I login as anonymous on an ftp server, muscle memory dictates I type in "k@io.org" as my password.
- Jaruzel 10y ago
  Recently I discovered the domain: m.me It's the shortest useful domain name I know.
- ethomson 10y ago
  That's funny - I have always simply typed `ethomson@` as my password for anonymous FTP, without ever specifying the hostname portion. The then-popular wu-ftpd had an option to enforce that there was a `@` in the password for anonymous access, but it didn't verify anything after that. I read somewhere that therefore a reasonable shorthand was to drop the hostname portion of your address since the FTP server knew your source hostname anyway. So this is similarly etched into _my_ muscle memory, but looking back I have no idea where I read this or if it was actually common at all or if I was the only one.

rsync 10y ago

" ... around 1993 as it became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" I remember "io.org" as the shortest domain name I knew in 1993 and adopted it as my default password for anonymous ftp logins. In fact to this day if I login as anonymous on an ftp server, muscle memory dictates I type in "k@io.org" as my password.

Jaruzel 10y ago
Recently I discovered the domain: m.me It's the shortest useful domain name I know.
ethomson 10y ago
That's funny - I have always simply typed `ethomson@` as my password for anonymous FTP, without ever specifying the hostname portion. The then-popular wu-ftpd had an option to enforce that there was a `@` in the password for anonymous access, but it didn't verify anything after that. I read somewhere that therefore a reasonable shorthand was to drop the hostname portion of your address since the FTP server knew your source hostname anyway. So this is similarly etched into _my_ muscle memory, but looking back I have no idea where I read this or if it was actually common at all or if I was the only one.