-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul M. Moriarty wrote: > Well, I can't claim a .arpa, but I've been around 20+ years. It > strikes me that if we left the Internet in the hands of the "old > timers", we'd be stuck in a world of 7-bit ascii remarking about the > latest breakthroughs with gopher. Because, in my experience, plain > text ascii is world that most old timers either live in or pine for.
Yup. There go those .ARPA bigots again. My first "global" email was on fidonet (1984), followed shortly by the WWIV BBS I ran (1986), which could email out to a fidonet bridge, but I also was "[email protected]" (1989) using the Crosswell mailer on an IBM VM/CMS 6 system (that I installed myself - the VM/CMS *AND* the Crosswell mailer). I also wrote my own mail client on my Windows 3.1 machine running Trumpet Winsock so that I could read my mainframe mail from my PC, after I installed TCP/IP on the mainframe, of course. (RED BOOKS ARE YOUR FRIENDS) But I guess to Rich, that would still make me a "Young'un", and I certainly didn't have to write my own TCP to make any of that work. - -- - -------------- Gary Warner Director of Research in Computer Forensics The University of Alabama at Birmingham [email protected] [email protected] 205.934.8620 205.422.2113 Blog = http://garwarner.blogspot.com/ Home = http://www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/ - -------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJxOllg79eYCOO6PsRAkx4AJ47T5IVSqBS/lpwjFVjvJWy+ff2bACfViA6 JJlVqhT3+pu29cC5nlyRVls= =/tsX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
