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Bahn.de is remarkable. You can search for Paris->Beijing if you want(202h with one change or 173h with three changes). Or you can look up the train schedule of
by seppel 8y ago
Bahn.de is remarkable. You can search for Paris->Beijing if you want(202h with one change or 173h with three changes). Or you can look up the train schedule of a remote Scotish villages.
- netsharc 8y agoOff-topic, I remember reading about the history of the online Bahn schedule lookup, it apparently started with a guy, not affiliated with them, who put the contents of the Bahn's CD-ROM timetable online. IIRC that was 1998. Edit: 1994! The page: https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/history.html.en https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/history.... , and it was just an email address where you could send an email with a special syntax #FROM vonbahnhof #TO tobahnhof #DATE mm-dd-yy #TIME hh:mm and you'd get a reply telling you the train connections. From a cronjob that ran twice a day! The (German) how it worked page is even more fascinating: https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/technik.html https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/technik.... "If we are at step 4 for a long time, I'm probably personally at the machine and doing some tinkering.". I love that there's no separation between a developer and productive system.