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I have a spiel about "the old days" (pre-2000) internet, when the Web wasn't the only protocol. How we had FTP, Archie, Veronica, WAIS, Gopher, Telnet, Finger,

I have a spiel about "the old days" (pre-2000) internet, when the Web wasn't the only protocol. How we had FTP, Archie, Veronica, WAIS, Gopher, Telnet, Finger, etc... I'd bring up all the great FTP sites I remembered: spies.com (and "wiretap") funet.fi sunet.se monash.edu ac.oak.oakland.edu I feel like there were a few other great repos out there, but those are the great ones that stuck in my memory.

warrenm 3y ago
back in the late 90s, you could FTP to apple.com and download old (ie unsupported) install disk images of previous version of Mac OS
sedatk 3y ago
ftp.sac.sk (antivirus and all the weird compression software), and ftp.nvg.ntnu.no (emulators, ROM and disk images) also come to mind. ftp.hornet.org for early demoscene downloads. of course never forget ftp.simtel.net. My shareware apps I releases in the 90’s are still there somewhere :)
notbeuller 3y ago
prep.ai.mit.edu
jks 3y ago
Just look at all those services available from nic.funet.fi: https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.fi/FUNET/ftp/cnames.html https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.... Archie, X.500, ftp, gopher, telnet, irc, mailing lists, USENET, WAIS, WWW (remember to use WWW clients), a caching WWW server for Funet members, Alex ("Global filesystem for all anonymous ftp sites with caching (experimental)") You could telnet into the system with username info and use command-line clients for some of these services if you didn't have access at your home university. I vaguely remember using an email-based service to access web pages: you sent the URL to an address and got a reply with the page contents rendered as text. That probably wasn't Funet but something else.
gattilorenz 3y ago
tsx11.mit.edu, where lots of unix and early linux binaries could be found. Unfortunately also university servers retire, and with them we lose the digital history they contain. Shout out to funet.fi and archive.org for taking good care of old files!
jsnell 3y ago
wuarchive.wustl.edu

warrenm 3y ago

back in the late 90s, you could FTP to apple.com and download old (ie unsupported) install disk images of previous version of Mac OS

sedatk 3y ago

ftp.sac.sk (antivirus and all the weird compression software), and ftp.nvg.ntnu.no (emulators, ROM and disk images) also come to mind. ftp.hornet.org for early demoscene downloads. of course never forget ftp.simtel.net. My shareware apps I releases in the 90’s are still there somewhere :)

notbeuller 3y ago

prep.ai.mit.edu

jks 3y ago

Just look at all those services available from nic.funet.fi: https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.fi/FUNET/ftp/cnames.html https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.... Archie, X.500, ftp, gopher, telnet, irc, mailing lists, USENET, WAIS, WWW (remember to use WWW clients), a caching WWW server for Funet members, Alex ("Global filesystem for all anonymous ftp sites with caching (experimental)") You could telnet into the system with username info and use command-line clients for some of these services if you didn't have access at your home university. I vaguely remember using an email-based service to access web pages: you sent the URL to an address and got a reply with the page contents rendered as text. That probably wasn't Funet but something else.

gattilorenz 3y ago

tsx11.mit.edu, where lots of unix and early linux binaries could be found. Unfortunately also university servers retire, and with them we lose the digital history they contain. Shout out to funet.fi and archive.org for taking good care of old files!

jsnell 3y ago

wuarchive.wustl.edu