Subj : Re: Computers
To   : TENSER
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 10:08:00

³ We had that before the web; people ran public anonymous FTP
³ servers running at many, if not most, sites well before the
³ web was a thing.  It was common to create directories for
³ users so that they could drop things into that part of the
³ filesystem exposed to anon FTP; lots of stuff got shared that way.
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At the time, that was quite useful.  I believe I would still prefer it to
what we have now.
 
I can remember being logged on to a dumb terminal at university, ftping to
a site from my uni account, downloading a file to my account, and then
later downloading from my account to my PC when I was home.
 
Found some utilities for the BBS that way, which was cheaper than the long
distance dial-up it would have required otherwise.  I also remember needing
to UUdecode some binaries before I could unarchive and use them.
 
Mike
 
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