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Fun. I started using Linux at 0.98 (forgot the patch level), in 1992. Had a modem and connected to a lot of bulletin boards. I felt very much a like "WarGames"
by linuxhansl 2y ago
Fun. I started using Linux at 0.98 (forgot the patch level), in 1992.
Had a modem and connected to a lot of bulletin boards. I felt very much a like "WarGames" hero, calling phone numbers and all :)
I still remember the day when I used ppp to connect to the actual Internet for the first time. After a lot of trial and error, I finally pinged www.linux.org, and it resolved the hostname and returned the ping. I was silent first, and all I could say then was "whoa".
Oh fun times. :)
- api 2y agoMy first net connection was using slirp via a shell account. Slirp was a CSLIP emulator that ran in user space on the shell box on the remote side. Back in those days multi user shell machines were quite common and some of the first ISPs offered Internet access that way. Mine was an ISP called Internet Access Cincinnati that gave each user shell on a Sun Sparc 10 running SunOS (pre-Solaris). You also got POP e-mail and a -username home folder accessible via web.
- jks 2y agoSlirp lives on in QEMU and container engines: https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns
- jabl 2y agoHa, Running slirp in the ISP shell box was also how I first got beyond bbs'ed onto the wild west of the internet. Also getting online was one of my first motivations for using Linux, as the Trumpet winsock networking library for Windows 3.1 was terrible and crashed the entire computer all the time.