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This was in a university setting I take it? I wouldn't have thought the early Internet/NSFNET was exciting enough to hack into. Usenet, yes. But the Internet? W
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
This was in a university setting I take it? I wouldn't have thought the early Internet/NSFNET was exciting enough to hack into. Usenet, yes. But the Internet? Wasn't it just a document retrieval system for scientific work?
- at_a_remove 5y agoWell, we couldn't get out to it to even see what was there, which, by then had IRC, gopher, archie, and so on. Usenet. It was all locked away and we were curious. We randomized the exchange listing, split up the results, and then proceeded to war-dial the entire exchange until we found a forgotten (and unprotected) modem line in the math department, which then hosted all of computer science. From there out to what were called "telnet gates," which were known only from rumor and just knowing of them was a commodity in and of itself.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago"Telnet gates" being early form of a static proxy funneled through separate hardware? If so, I could see how they would valuable for ,say, the Kevin Mitnicks of the era.
- at_a_remove 5y agoIt was valuable for us, as well, who just wanted to see what was out there.