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In the early days telnet your.host.domain 80 GET / HTTP/1.0 and copy and paste from the scrollback buffer of the terminal. Chances were that the code was
by pmontra 4y ago
In the early days
telnet your.host.domain 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
and copy and paste from the scrollback buffer of the terminal. Chances were that the code was handcrafted and easily readable.
That would work unless you were in the vast unlucky majority with Windows and no telnet or no access to a Linux / Unix server.
Anyway, I did it plenty of times. Then wget and curl.
- matsemann 4y agoHehe, yeah, exactly! But none of us knew the underlying technologies, or even that there existed other OSes than Windows or other browsers than IE. Still, we had lots of fun!
- mikewarot 4y agoI ran windows, we had Telnet. Right-click and view source was the main way I learned things.
- Jaruzel 4y agoTelnet was only dropped by default from Windows 7 onwards. Earlier versions of Windows had it installed. And if you want to be really specific, Hyperterminal could to telnet.