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>internet was mostly old Unix machines talking to each other. Was it? By my reading there was way more weird stuff than there is today but I certainly wasn't a
by swiley 5y ago
>internet was mostly old Unix machines talking to each other.
Was it? By my reading there was way more weird stuff than there is today but I certainly wasn't alive back then.
- gary_0 5y agoIn the context of popular things like HTTP and SMTP, yes, it was mostly Unix/BSD/NeXT[0][1]. Obviously the entire history of the Internet is a different story. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#/media/File:NeXTcube_first_webserver.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#/media/File:NeX... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#Original_SMTP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#...