Subj : Re: computers
To   : tenser
From : Spaceboy
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 22:22:57

  Re: Re: computers
  By: tenser to Nightfox on Sat Jul 20 2024 06:24:46

 > 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.

Is ftp not still commonly used this way? I have found a lot of stuff recently
and am damn grateful we still have it around. All the http stuff is bloated and
inefficient nowadays. Efficiency=elegance?
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