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In the 1980s we had fantastic Internet connectivity and bandwidth at SAIC but most stuff was on FTP sites. I spent at least an hour a week curating lists of FTP
by mark_l_watson 7y ago
In the 1980s we had fantastic Internet connectivity and bandwidth at SAIC but most stuff was on FTP sites. I spent at least an hour a week curating lists of FTP sites and directory listings of them. I was sort-of a human search engine and would help people find useful stuff. Then the text-based www happened, then Mozilla happened, and things exponentially got more awesome. We had a smart young guy, Greg Hannah, who set up web servers for us on just about day zero of the web.