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There are people here who invented ARPANet.
by pests 8y ago
There are people here who invented ARPANet.
- pc86 8y agoPerhaps that's why I asked if gerbilly was involved in ARPANet.
- gerbilly 8y agoI was on the internet as an undergrad first at UofT in 1988, it was mostly FTP and usenet back then. Our machines didn't even use DNS yet IIRC there was a HOSTS.TXT file sent around that had to be updated as new sites were added to the network. It was fairly early, and I got to see the internet before the marketers started to take notice of it. I remember the internet worm[1] and the Canter and Siegel usenet spam a bit later[2]. I'm glad the internet was made public of course but I wish the standards from back then had better security built in. Of course encrypting everything back then would have been a significant drain on computational resources. We used to login 40 students at a time on TTYs to a Sun 3/280 (25mhz CPU!).[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-3