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Of course there was the internet, mainly build up of FTP, UUCP and TELNET. The web also didn't become a thing even in IT circles until Mosaic became available in 1993. … *2 - In fact, for some short time WAIS was much more successful on the internet than the WWW …

But then I got thinking, maybe it still might have worked to a degree, possibly in the late 1990s anyway, possibly some of the more advanced web developers had moved beyond the old tables and frame …

TL;DR: Phone and Internet are different different networks, each with their own structure, protocols and addressing. Phone still uses phone numbers while Internet uses IP-addresses. … Why did they switch to IPv4 addresses to address devices in the internet? They never did. Phone and internet are different networks. …

As by the amount of xxx-hours-free-internet-CDs attached to magazines and dropped in each mailbox. … It even existed in parallel for several years after general availability of internet access. …

The Internet and its IP based protocol suite being one. HTTP for example handles request and delivery of web-pages, while FTP, handling file transfer, just to name two of them. …

networks of single or coupled BBSes of the 1980s may be more known, there were already many public available data networks. it may be noteworthy, that public data networks already existed before the internet …

TL;DR: No, as IPv6 does not work that way. The Long Read While IPv6 does carry several changes and enhancements/simplifications of protocol handling, none of them are about latency. It's main feature …

The most modern browse contemporary to Mac OS 9 is the Internet Explorer 5, stalling since 2000. …

So why were modem speakers such a persistent feature, and "fixture" of the time? Three basic reasons: Adding a simple amplifier and a speaker is the most easy way to handle unexpected situation …

There was a rather unusual ISDN cluster in and around Seattle, but in general you're right, it was dial-up at 56k. In fact, I know of many small business using dial-up as late as 2010 - even in some l …

Yes, these networks of computers, concentrators and terminals may have been networks with similarities to the later Internet, but manufacturer/system specific. …

I am fascinated by these 6 obsolete internet protocols,[...]They are hilariously simple. … An Internet Accessible QOTD Service can be abused for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Reflection/Amplification attack against a third party. I don't understand why. [...] …

Does anyone know how long that message must have been taken to transmit, or an estimate at least? It's two characters, so even considering an inefficient protocol and slow lines (*1) will be conside …

Looks to me as if the cited paragraph already answered that perfectly. It must be a character available on as many keyboards as possible Should not be one that gets already escaped on their own devel …

My question is – can anyone give examples of historical FTP server implementations which actually accepted or required ACCT? FTP on BS2000 for example (*1). I would assume those implementations wer …