The internet 10 years ago (was Re: Selling it off. What would you keep ?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Nov 2002

On Nov 30, 10:34, Ethan Dicks wrote:

...
  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. 
Ten years ago, I was still relying on bulletin boards most of the time.  I
well remember using the dialup provided by Lancaster University (what was
HENSA and is now the UK Mirror service), and realising that some
distribution I needed was going to take several hours to download.
 Luckily, I had a friend at York who could use FTP over a JANET link :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York