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As someone who was being born when those domains were being registered, can anyone shed some light onto what the internet was like back then? (my understanding

As someone who was being born when those domains were being registered, can anyone shed some light onto what the internet was like back then? (my understanding is that there wasn't a www back then)

showerst 13y ago
If you've never read it before, you're in for a fun read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet Back then email was still the primary civilian use of the internet, although by the mid-80s BBS's and USENET were firmly entrenched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet The early walled gateways (AOL, Compuserve, etc) and then the wider web as you know it didn't really take off until the early 90s.
username42 13y ago
I finished my studies in 1993 and I have used internet a lot during the 3 last years (mid 1990 until mid 1993). ncsa mosaic has really arrived in my school only at the beginning of 1994, after I left. During my studies, the main internet tools were telnet and ftp. There was no firewall and it was really easy to connect to any computer anywhere. It was also really easy to find password (ypcat passwd then dictionary based attacks). My girlfriend was in another school (500km away) and I was using a small utility named xhtalk to monitor when she was connected in order to chat with her. With xarchie, you could search a software or game by its name and it returned an anonymous ftp server. I played go on internet using igs in 1992. There was something similar for chess. The main information source was the newsgroups. There was already hyperlink navigation with gopher. The version of linux on my PC was 0.99 (version of the kernel). I was using it mainly as an X server to access the school computers when the rooms were closed.

As someone who was being born when those domains were being registered, can anyone shed some light onto what the internet was like back then? (my understanding is that there wasn't a www back then)

showerst 13y ago

If you've never read it before, you're in for a fun read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet Back then email was still the primary civilian use of the internet, although by the mid-80s BBS's and USENET were firmly entrenched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet The early walled gateways (AOL, Compuserve, etc) and then the wider web as you know it didn't really take off until the early 90s.

username42 13y ago

I finished my studies in 1993 and I have used internet a lot during the 3 last years (mid 1990 until mid 1993). ncsa mosaic has really arrived in my school only at the beginning of 1994, after I left. During my studies, the main internet tools were telnet and ftp. There was no firewall and it was really easy to connect to any computer anywhere. It was also really easy to find password (ypcat passwd then dictionary based attacks). My girlfriend was in another school (500km away) and I was using a small utility named xhtalk to monitor when she was connected in order to chat with her. With xarchie, you could search a software or game by its name and it returned an anonymous ftp server. I played go on internet using igs in 1992. There was something similar for chess. The main information source was the newsgroups. There was already hyperlink navigation with gopher. The version of linux on my PC was 0.99 (version of the kernel). I was using it mainly as an X server to access the school computers when the rooms were closed.