I 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 HOST

I 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