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

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.