1 Dec
2002
1 Dec
'02
3:05 a.m.
10 years ago, I was at Cray Research. We did trade shows over the internet
(might have been ARPA back then). Show booths had 3D SGI workstations,
connected to the net by T1 links. Simulations ran in parallel --
visualization on the workstation, and number-crunching on the big iron at
Cray (MN/WI).
Pretty cool for the time. Run a remote
car-crash/fluid-flow/electromagnetic/... simulation on the cray (which ran
a flavor of unix), then see the results moments later over the net.
gil
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:34:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: The internet 10 years ago (was Re: Selling it off. What would you
keep ?)
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
--- Peter Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
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On Nov 30, 17:57, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
By the late '80's it covered most of Western Europe and the States
including non-academic sites. CIX (Compulink Information Exchange) was
founded in 1987, and Demon Internet in June 1992, both offering public
services in the UK. Demon charged UKP10/month for dialup access.
10 years ago, I was doing Usenet and email through my Amiga (with two
ST225s and a PC-XT disk controller!) with UUCP. I couldn't do ftp
and telnet and cool stuff like that, but I could at least get a few
newsgroups like comp.sources.amiga and rec.humor.funny delivered to my
door.
2400 bps, 20 MB news spool! Those were the days. Not.
-ethan > I
just wish the internet was around 10 years ago.
Fortunately, it was.
Well, yes, but not everywhere, and _certainly_ not for
everyone. 
4:39 p.m.
At 20:46 12/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
And that would have been... what???
Non-Sufficient Funds net??? ;-) Bwaahaahaahaahaa!!!
Watching where our tax dollars are going, it's prolly right... ;-)
And just to put things in perspective, I've been on the net locally for
around 8 years, and this is a backwater hole (despite being the 3rd oldest
city in the US)...
But - to also put this in perspective...
Back then, AOL had a WAIS module for there software - now you can't even
send non-HTML email... :-( Altavista back then was actually *useful*...
spam was near non-existent, but when you did get it there was a chance it
might even be 1) interesting or 2) entertaining... and last, but certainly
not least... at least some of the clueless newbies a) admitted such, and b)
were more willing to buy a clue somewhere, instead of whine about all those
big meanies on the Internet that are picking on them BECAUSE THEIR LAST
EMAIL THAT LOOKED LIKE THIS oR tHiS bEcAuSe ThEy ThaWt It WaS KoOlZ...
Ah well... enough ranting...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
10 years ago,
I was at Cray Research. We did trade shows over the internet
(might have been ARPA back then).
Prolly NSFnet...ARPAnet by then was pretty much dead and buried. 
2 Dec
2 Dec
12:13 p.m.
--- William Donzelli <aw288(a)osfn.org> wrote:
My only personal contact with the ARPAnet was about 1986 - someone
else sent my name to a freeware author and suggested he send me
a copy of his program - 1.5MB of source and wrappers. My friend
got my address wrong, and to compound the error, he gave the author
a bang-path that routed over the ARPAnet to Ohio State (our upstream
feed).
The result was that 1.5MB of text came over the ARPAnet, through an X.25
gateway that OSU paid per-packet charges on, was UUCPed to our little
11/730 at work at 2400bps, *bounced*, then was returned through the same
route, in its entirety, to the sender. The mail/UUCP/netnews admin at
OSU was a friend of mine. I got the big *NEVER DO THIS AGAIN OR ELSE*
warning even though I had nothing to do with any of it.
ISTR it cost OSU around $200 in telecom charges for that fubar.
They didn't get a full-time, fixed-cost feed to "the Net" until a couple
of years after this happened.
-ethan
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10 years ago,
I was at Cray Research. We did trade shows over the
internet
(might have been ARPA back then).
Prolly NSFnet...ARPAnet by then was pretty much dead and buried.
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