Subj : Re: Computers
To   : NIGHTFOX
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Fri Aug 02 2024 07:59:00

³ Yes.  And I remember ISPs including a shell account, space for some files, and
³ FTP & HTTP access there so you can set up a simple web page if you wanted to.
³ Also, personal email accounts from ISPs.  I'm not sure anyone uses any of that
³ anymore, and I don't think many ISPs offer those things anymore.
ÀÄ[N=>PF]
 
I still have the same ISP email account I was first issued over 30 years
ago.  Not sure if the web page still works or not, I would have to check.
I know they eventually took their usenet news server down, and I *think* they
finally took down their shell accounts.  I just tried telneting in and got no
response.
 
They kept the shell accounts active for a long time after everyone else did
away with them.  You could telnet into iglou.com or shellaccess.com to
connect.  The latter now resolves to an Amazon IPA.
 
³ I always wondered what I'd need shell access for on my ISP server, but when I
³ still used dialup, I noticed I could sometimes get a faster download speed for
³ a file if I first used the shell account to 'wget' the file (which would
³ transfer to my ISP really fast), and then I'd download it from my personal
³ space there via FTP, which would go fairly fast.  That was often faster than me
³ directly downloading the file from the site, for some reason.
ÀÄ[N=>PF]
 
Shell accounts were useful back when there wasn't a "GUI internet" to speak
of, and were still useful even then if one had a machine that didn't
run/wasn't capable of running Windows 95.  I got used to using text based
interfaces at uni (often on dumb terminals) so, between that and BBSing,
the text based shell account seemed a lot easier to use.
 
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