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Another article which mention both FTP and Dropbox. The infamous top comment on the Dropbox HN launch back is what led me down the rabbit hole of building a Dro

Another article which mention both FTP and Dropbox. The infamous top comment on the Dropbox HN launch back is what led me down the rabbit hole of building a Dropbox like UI for FTP: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash FTP is amazing on so many perspective. About a month ago, I crawled the entire IPv4 range looking for anonymous FTP and found about 200k of them. As I wanted to publish the results and provide a way to get through those servers, I ended up building crawlers but quickly stopped as the sheer amount of movies, series, music I found would have been more problems than it's worth.

whoibrar 5y ago
really interesting, thanks for commenting
nobody9999 5y ago
>As I wanted to publish the results and provide a way to get through those servers, Lists of the contents of Anonymous FTP servers have been produced since at least the 1980s. And in fact, they still exist: http://fy.chalmers.se/OLDUSERS/ivi/ftpsites2.html http://fy.chalmers.se/OLDUSERS/ivi/ftpsites2.html http://www.diam.unige.it/informatica/documentazione/httpd_docs/ftp/part1.html http://www.diam.unige.it/informatica/documentazione/httpd_do... Back in the day, you'd download updated lists to find the stuff you were looking for. Because that was how you found stuff. Although there wasn't a lot of video or music out there on the public anon FTP servers. That was before Archie[0] and Veronica[1] and, of course, websites. Apparently, there was a discussion[2] about this here back in 2016, as well. I have fond memories of wuarchive.wustl.edu, simtel20.army.mil[3] and a bunch of other FTP sites I can't remember 30+ years later. A good topic. Thanks for posting it. Perhaps you should publish your list, or stand up an Archie server for it. I'd use it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523455 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel

whoibrar 5y ago

really interesting, thanks for commenting

nobody9999 5y ago

>As I wanted to publish the results and provide a way to get through those servers, Lists of the contents of Anonymous FTP servers have been produced since at least the 1980s. And in fact, they still exist: http://fy.chalmers.se/OLDUSERS/ivi/ftpsites2.html http://fy.chalmers.se/OLDUSERS/ivi/ftpsites2.html http://www.diam.unige.it/informatica/documentazione/httpd_docs/ftp/part1.html http://www.diam.unige.it/informatica/documentazione/httpd_do... Back in the day, you'd download updated lists to find the stuff you were looking for. Because that was how you found stuff. Although there wasn't a lot of video or music out there on the public anon FTP servers. That was before Archie[0] and Veronica[1] and, of course, websites. Apparently, there was a discussion[2] about this here back in 2016, as well. I have fond memories of wuarchive.wustl.edu, simtel20.army.mil[3] and a bunch of other FTP sites I can't remember 30+ years later. A good topic. Thanks for posting it. Perhaps you should publish your list, or stand up an Archie server for it. I'd use it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12523455 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel