Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: All the problems of French Philsophy... Date: 16 May 2026 01:38:21 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <10tt5f1$18b93$7@dont-email.me> <87y0hp24vo.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <10tvjc0$232hs$1@dont-email.me> <10u11eg$2faiu$1@dont-email.me> <10u2t5e$30sf7$1@dont-email.me> <4mkgdmxa55.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net sxZV5P6jiypGi+XUoKUYtQmoOC/HzOc5qI3DCyJdmZuHhgM9rl Cancel-Lock: sha1:3logneH9xln4tIekVgnOhwM4GCU= sha256:GKN5rUkdvKiZ9Hh3l2VB/V2Jn11gBD5ApiQgYqdGS7w= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86725 On Fri, 15 May 2026 20:03:27 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > Those systems had a very different feel from today’s networks — highly > decentralized, store-and-forward, and often surprisingly efficient over > dial-up lines. FidoNet file distribution with FREQ, TIC files, file > echoes, and nightly mail events was quite elegant for the constraints of > the time. I never used Fidonet. In the early '80s there were a couple of BBSs that I would dial into directly. Later I used Delphi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_(online_service) Delphi provided local telephone number that would connect with a 2400 baud backbone so you weren't paying long distance fees. Compuserve was similar but pricier. What became the Microsoft Developer Network lived on Compuserve. I wasn't interested but a friend who wanted to work with Windows 1.0 was on that service. Delphi wasn't bad and eventually provided access to the Web but by then I'd switched to a local ISP, so to speak. You paid your money, got a Unix shell on their server and a diskette with the Trumpet Winsock (MS didn't have a TCP stack), TIA (The Internet Adapter) which was a SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) emulator, and Netscape 0.9. You were really styling then. You also got enough disk space to build a website that had a public address, email. and usenet. It was two guys in the back of a golf shop, very high tech.