Subj : Re: computers
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 06:24:46

On 19 Jul 2024 at 09:24a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>  te> As I said earlier, I found the web pretty unimpressive when I first s
 Ni>  te> it; most of the content was boring.  I vividly remember one web site,
 Ni>  te> linked from the "main" server at CERN, that was some guy's collection
 Ni>  te> pictures of beer coasters from random bars.  It rendered slowly on Mo
 Ni>  te> on an RS/6000 machine.  *shrug*
 Ni> 
 Ni> I think the thing with the web wasn't necessarily the content, but the
 Ni> ability to share things fairly easily.  If someone wanted to share
 Ni> photos or some information, they could put up a web page and share a
 Ni> link - and they could edit their web page to include links to other
 Ni> pages that you could just click on.

We had that before the web; people ran public anonymous FTP
servers running at many, if not most, sites well before the
web was a thing.  It was common to create directories for
users so that they could drop things into that part of the
filesystem exposed to anon FTP; lots of stuff got shared that
way.

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