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> I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map, and this data was much covete

> I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map, and this data was much coveted among local young hackers.

kingcharles 5y ago
There weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.
- gogopuppygogo 5y ago
  I'm a bit too young to remember the advent of the Internet but old enough to remember when the FXP scene burst onto BBS's with enough warez to fill every hard drive I could get my hands on.
  - redasadki 5y ago
    hard drive? you mean diskettes, ZIP drives, and SYQUEST cartridges
    - jasonfarnon 5y ago
      the tape drives... 250+ MB years before iomega came along
    - CrazyCatDog 5y ago
      Iomega Zip drives— still impressed with the choice of making the drives blue. The showstopper though, was my dad’s wood modem—I don’t remember if it was plastic or real, but it was purchased from a national retailer—not homemade and way cooler than the slate of white 56k US Robotics modems that followed!
- jasonfarnon 5y ago
  why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
  - dleslie 5y ago
    My experience predates the existence of cuteftp. I was using gopher and telnet before Windows 3.1; I remember when HTTP arrived and ruined everything.
  - hluska 5y ago
    I’m not op but I have a very funny, related story. In the nineties, my parents occasionally logged into my computer and stared at it for 15-20 minutes before going upstairs and turning on the television. Saving numbers in the computer box meant that I was breaking into the CIA and selling secrets to the Russians (while fornicating). Writing the same things down in a notebook was okay.
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  - kingcharles 5y ago
    As soon as those client came along, I mostly switched. I don't remember any GUI clients in 1994. One issue was that the GUI clients failed at most of the warez folders because they contained so many special characters - lot of things like ^H^H^H^H^Hwarez etc.

> I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map, and this data was much coveted among local young hackers.

kingcharles 5y ago

There weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.

gogopuppygogo 5y ago
I'm a bit too young to remember the advent of the Internet but old enough to remember when the FXP scene burst onto BBS's with enough warez to fill every hard drive I could get my hands on.
- redasadki 5y ago
  hard drive? you mean diskettes, ZIP drives, and SYQUEST cartridges
  - jasonfarnon 5y ago
    the tape drives... 250+ MB years before iomega came along
  - CrazyCatDog 5y ago
    Iomega Zip drives— still impressed with the choice of making the drives blue. The showstopper though, was my dad’s wood modem—I don’t remember if it was plastic or real, but it was purchased from a national retailer—not homemade and way cooler than the slate of white 56k US Robotics modems that followed!
jasonfarnon 5y ago
why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
- dleslie 5y ago
  My experience predates the existence of cuteftp. I was using gopher and telnet before Windows 3.1; I remember when HTTP arrived and ruined everything.
- hluska 5y ago
  I’m not op but I have a very funny, related story. In the nineties, my parents occasionally logged into my computer and stared at it for 15-20 minutes before going upstairs and turning on the television. Saving numbers in the computer box meant that I was breaking into the CIA and selling secrets to the Russians (while fornicating). Writing the same things down in a notebook was okay.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- kingcharles 5y ago
  As soon as those client came along, I mostly switched. I don't remember any GUI clients in 1994. One issue was that the GUI clients failed at most of the warez folders because they contained so many special characters - lot of things like ^H^H^H^H^Hwarez etc.