What is so ancient only an Internet veteran can remember?
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#2Dialing for hours due to low number of modems on your ISP. Loosing your connection because someone in your house would pick up a phone receiver.
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#3Stolen "PCPursuit" and Telnet accounts, so long distance bills wouldn't be so bad. When "YMODEM" was a real improvement in information technology.
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#4UUCP style email addresses. JANET addresses being reversed compared to Internet/DNS. The web didn't exist. Anonymous FTP servers. Usenet before Eternal September. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
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#5SF LOVERS digest (started in 1979!)
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#6gopher
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#7Usenet
which I still use actually, peep my username :)
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#8Stolen "PCPursuit" and Telnet accounts, so long distance bills wouldn't be so bad. When "YMODEM" was a real improvement in information technology.
Telenet. :)
For the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
Another big one was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet
The reason some big online providers (some or all of, for example: AOL, CompuServ, Prodigy) had so many local access numbers (which was important since long-distance was so expensive) was that those numbers were actually Telenet / Tymnet, which the client used to connect to the service.
Connecting to the web via dial-up AOL looked (maybe still looks?) like:
Browser HTTP(S) (I forget this component) AOL client Modem PSTN X.25 AOL backend HTTP(S) Website
Is the part that I’m forgetting SLIP/PPP? I forget how that was implemented in Windows… Possibly both the browser and the AOL client talked to that.
(That was all after you could use AOL for TCP/IP, which wasn’t always the case.)
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#9When the number of websites was so small a printed book could contain them all (and still be reasonably in-date for several months after printing).
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#10gopher
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