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I remember getting Windows 95 on the Internet, not having a browser, but having the command line FTP client built in and FTPing to cdrom.com to download a copy

• cairoshikobon 6y ago
  Windows has and still does an excellent built-in FTP API also that was very handy. It works even on Windows 95 all the way to Windows 10. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wininet/nf-wininet-ftpgetfilea https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wininet/n... Downloading from HTTP has always been messy, specially for big files. The FTP API been always rock solid. Edit: Apparently the Gopher API is also still available! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wininet/nf-wininet-gopherfindfirstfilea https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wininet/n... and even has websites! In January 2020, Veronica indexed 395 gopher servers,[16] within which it indexed approximately 4.5 million unique selectors. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher/0/v2/vstat http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher/0/v2/vstat