Subj : Re: computers
To   : Spectre
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 16:26:26

On 19 Jul 2024 at 09:02a, Spectre pondered and said...
 
 Sp>  Ma> IIRC, 'the internet', as such actually started out in 1995, replacing
 Sp>  Ma> Compuserve.
 Sp> 
 Sp> There was a lot of usage here via Uni students.  There were a lot in the
 Sp> BBS space, and for a short window every man and his dog was importing
 Sp> usenet into BB systems.  Thats got to be here... early 93... it was not
 Sp> long beyond that, then slip arrived and everything changed.

SLIP was the 1980s; Rick Adams added it to 4.2BSD.  It was fun,
dialing into a Telebit Trailblazer and running `slattach` and
`ifconfig` to have dial-up Internet access from home.  By the
1990s, people wanted PPP and dynamic IP assignment (SLIP was
comparatively static, which was wasteful most of the time).
Also, people started getting into PNAT around this time, so that
they could have small ethernets at home that were connected to
the net.  I had a 486 running FreeBSD, a VAX running VMS, and
a MIPS R2000-based DECstation 5000 running Ultrix at home.  I
ran DECnet and TCP/IP, and the 486 did PPP and NAT to the local
university; my console for the VAX was a VT320, and I could
login to that, telnet to the FreeBSD machine, and SSH into the
SPARCstation on my desk at work.  I ran a full-on X desktop on
the Ultrix machine.  Good times.

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