tomjoro

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   by tomjoro 5y ago

   I think it was present, you just had to enable it.
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   by tomjoro 5y ago

   Gopher was more widely used that WWW until 1994, and it was a basic install on most Internet nodes in the first few years of 90's. The point of Gopher was it was one of the first widely deployed protocols that allowed you to find thing
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   by tomjoro 5y ago

   Windows 95 had a native TCP/IP stack. Lan Manager had it from 1990 (a bunch of that expertise came from hires from Finland). And Windows NT had it in 1994. In '95 everyone was using TCP/IP and pretty much was standard at M$.
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   by tomjoro 6y ago

   Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I agree. I was doing a lot of telephony/mobile back in those early 1990s and there was a huge amount of formalism. We tried to model everything as FSM that transitioned states based on received m