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On the flip side, while OpenSSH may be great and high quality now, and wasn't in the '90s, in the '90s people used telnet on the public Internet, and telnet wor
by knorker 8y ago
On the flip side, while OpenSSH may be great and high quality now, and wasn't in the '90s, in the '90s people used telnet on the public Internet, and telnet worked.[1]
IOW: It wasn't basic tech and great opportunity at the same time.
Today you can work on immature things like OpenBSD's MPLS implementation and who knows, maybe in 20 years people will say that back in 2019 there were so many things that could be improved about that basic tech! (cue replies anti-labelswitching dweebs)
[1] Not me, I used ssh since before OpenSSH.
- icedchai 8y agoTelnet and rlogin were both very common. I remember installing ssh on my Slackware Linux box back in 1996. I had to build it from source... fun times!