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Which is pretty neat in its own right. It's easy to romanticize those days (which no doubt had plenty of their own problems), but something like this seems to s

Which is pretty neat in its own right. It's easy to romanticize those days (which no doubt had plenty of their own problems), but something like this seems to say a bit about how the early web came to be. It's hard to think of something as fundamental nowadays as ssh as just some new program making its way onto mailing lists with its author (Tatu Ylonen) probably wondering whether it would go anywhere.

brlewis 8y ago
Internet, not web. This was a time when nobody used those terms interchangeably.
- nineteen999 8y ago
  Perhaps amongst the technical crowd. I clearly remember the average dial up user at that time was excited about "surfing the net".
  - foodstances 8y ago
    Because they did use more than the web. Usenet, e-mail, FTP, etc.
    - nineteen999 8y ago
      Yes and as another responder pointed out Gopher as well. Perhaps that's my bias I think that was still mainly the techy crowd. Most of the non-technical people I helped get connected in those days were only interested in how to find the Netscape browser icon. With Eudora email and later Outlook Express as a close second. They certainly didn't really differentiate the Internet from the Web. Perhaps that was just my limited experience here in Australia.
      - u801e 8y ago
        Most people I knew called it being online or on the internet in the mid to late '90s. A lot of people I knew used applications like Free Agent and mIRC and a certain GUI FTP client (which I can't remember the name of).
        notyourwork 8y ago
        FlashFXP was my goto awhile ago.
  - mstade 8y ago
    You mean the information superhighway? ;o)
    - deleted 8y ago
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  - tingletech 8y ago
    but "surfing the net" could have meant gopher too in 1995
  - M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
    Especially in countries with languages where there are no separate words for "net" and "web", which are quite a few.
- Bluestrike2 8y ago
  Fair enough, particularly since the topic is ssh.

brlewis 8y ago

Internet, not web. This was a time when nobody used those terms interchangeably.

nineteen999 8y ago
Perhaps amongst the technical crowd. I clearly remember the average dial up user at that time was excited about "surfing the net".
- foodstances 8y ago
  Because they did use more than the web. Usenet, e-mail, FTP, etc.
  - nineteen999 8y ago
    Yes and as another responder pointed out Gopher as well. Perhaps that's my bias I think that was still mainly the techy crowd. Most of the non-technical people I helped get connected in those days were only interested in how to find the Netscape browser icon. With Eudora email and later Outlook Express as a close second. They certainly didn't really differentiate the Internet from the Web. Perhaps that was just my limited experience here in Australia.
    - u801e 8y ago
      Most people I knew called it being online or on the internet in the mid to late '90s. A lot of people I knew used applications like Free Agent and mIRC and a certain GUI FTP client (which I can't remember the name of).
      - notyourwork 8y ago
        FlashFXP was my goto awhile ago.
- mstade 8y ago
  You mean the information superhighway? ;o)
  - deleted 8y ago
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- tingletech 8y ago
  but "surfing the net" could have meant gopher too in 1995
- M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
  Especially in countries with languages where there are no separate words for "net" and "web", which are quite a few.
Bluestrike2 8y ago
Fair enough, particularly since the topic is ssh.