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Trumpet Winsock; login and initiate PPP; fire up Netscape Navigator.

bringtheaction 9y ago
Never heard of Trumpet Winsock before. Found this. https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/news/3-latest-news/17-mar-2011.html http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/news/3-latest-news/17-ma... > As a result of some recent discussion about Trumpet Winsock and its use during the early 1990s, a group of users at Hacker News have decided to donate to Peter Tattam in appreciation for their use of Trumpet Winsock during the early years of the Internet. > As a gesture of good will, Peter Tattam, the sole copyright owner of Trumpet Winsock, has also issued an amnesty on any copyright infringement by all users (individual and corporate) of Trumpet Winsock indefinitely for use prior to Jan 2011. He does however reserve all other rights in the copyright of Trumpet Winsock. Please note that Trumpet Winsock is still available for sale and is NOT free - should you wish to continue to use it, you should order a registration key from us.
- bdamm 9y ago
  Shareware!
- katastic 9y ago
  Kind of strange how certain, obscure topics reappear on the same site. Like Reddit reposts, Hacker News apparently has articles that hit every year or every few years. That first link literally mentions HN the last time it slashdot'd it. >Update 20 January 2016 >After 5 relatively quiet years, Trumpet Winsock is back on the front of Hacker News. Welcome back to memories of the dawn of the mass internet age. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935532
- jsmthrowaway 9y ago
  > Never heard of Trumpet Winsock before. That sound you just heard was half of HN sighing at how old they feel, including me. :/
  - twic 9y ago
    I'd heard of it, but never used it. The reason being that we were an Apple household, and so used MacPPP!
bdamm 9y ago
Check your fidonet. Initiate XModem. The cool kids are using YModem now.
- djsumdog 9y ago
  ZModem and HSLink (HSLink let you download and upload at the same time .. sorta). You also had the door games and 60 min limits and spending 3 days downloading Doom which came on three 1.4M disks.
- CodeMage 9y ago
  Fire up Terminate, call my favorite BBS, log on, check messages, play some Trade Wars 2002. Those were the days. For a brief time, I had my own BBS and I was really proud when it became a FidoNet point.

Never heard of Trumpet Winsock before. Found this. https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/ http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/news/3-latest-news/17-mar-2011.html http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/news/3-latest-news/17-ma... > As a result of some recent discussion about Trumpet Winsock and its use during the early 1990s, a group of users at Hacker News have decided to donate to Peter Tattam in appreciation for their use of Trumpet Winsock during the early years of the Internet. > As a gesture of good will, Peter Tattam, the sole copyright owner of Trumpet Winsock, has also issued an amnesty on any copyright infringement by all users (individual and corporate) of Trumpet Winsock indefinitely for use prior to Jan 2011. He does however reserve all other rights in the copyright of Trumpet Winsock. Please note that Trumpet Winsock is still available for sale and is NOT free - should you wish to continue to use it, you should order a registration key from us.

bdamm 9y ago
Shareware!
katastic 9y ago
Kind of strange how certain, obscure topics reappear on the same site. Like Reddit reposts, Hacker News apparently has articles that hit every year or every few years. That first link literally mentions HN the last time it slashdot'd it. >Update 20 January 2016 >After 5 relatively quiet years, Trumpet Winsock is back on the front of Hacker News. Welcome back to memories of the dawn of the mass internet age. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935532
jsmthrowaway 9y ago
> Never heard of Trumpet Winsock before. That sound you just heard was half of HN sighing at how old they feel, including me. :/
- twic 9y ago
  I'd heard of it, but never used it. The reason being that we were an Apple household, and so used MacPPP!

bdamm 9y ago

Check your fidonet. Initiate XModem. The cool kids are using YModem now.

djsumdog 9y ago
ZModem and HSLink (HSLink let you download and upload at the same time .. sorta). You also had the door games and 60 min limits and spending 3 days downloading Doom which came on three 1.4M disks.
CodeMage 9y ago
Fire up Terminate, call my favorite BBS, log on, check messages, play some Trade Wars 2002. Those were the days. For a brief time, I had my own BBS and I was really proud when it became a FidoNet point.