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		mmjaa on Oct 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fifty years ago, the internet was born in Room 342... I'd been using the Internet for 10 years before HTTP came along - it was definitely just as useful then as it is now. Its just prettier now.

arethuza on Oct 29, 2019 [–]

I remember a lot of time using archie (xarchie) and ftp before the web became ubiquitous.

rootbear on Oct 29, 2019 | [–]

Back in the pre-web days, we used to get software via ftp, usually as source code tar balls, from any of several well-known archive sites. One I remember was labrea.stanford.edu. Yes, it was a tar pit...

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