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Do you recall how you transferred the file? I'm curious. You likely didn't dial each other up, or did you? Did you employ some kind of p2p utility? IP-based? I
by MayeulC 5y ago
Do you recall how you transferred the file? I'm curious. You likely didn't dial each other up, or did you? Did you employ some kind of p2p utility? IP-based? I don't know much what was achievable as a kid or teen back then.
- enneff 5y agoYou would just dial the other person’s modem and that would give you a bidirectional steam of bytes from one machine to another. Anything you typed showed up in their terminal and vice versa. Then you could initiate a file transfer using a protocol such as Zmodem, which would stream the file in checksummed chunks so that parts could be retried if line noise corrupted them.
- rbg246 5y agoI used to use hyperterminal as a child to transfer if we didn't both have unlimited hour ISP access.