On 3/24/06, Dominique Cimafranca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Prior to digital unix, there was tru unix, (both for alpha processors) and prior to that was Ultrix (for vax processors)
It has been quite a discussion on who really was the first IP based ISP. Mozcom certainly claims to be the first, but in all honesty, Patrick Deakin and I recall that Portal Inc might have preceded Mozcom by a few months as well, via a dial-up SLIP to DLSU. The tech guy at that time was David Dizon.
Lynx if I'm not mistaken came out only around 2000. Well, in the middle of 1994, there was a widespread program called Mosaic (pre-cursor of Netscape) which really made web pages graphical (and magical during those days). But there is a text based browser during that time of which the name escapes me. However, there were other similar text based services, not necessarily on the world wide web, like wais, archie, etc...
Some funny things about lynx ...
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html
Migs: we didn't use Linux back at Digital. It was mostly Digital UNIX and OpenVMS running on the Alpha.
Prior to digital unix, there was tru unix, (both for alpha processors) and prior to that was Ultrix (for vax processors)
The first ISP I got to work with was Portal, Inc. (previously named Binary systems) set up by Ben Litonjua and two of his friends. I think it might have been the second ISP in the country. Certainly it preceded Infocom by a couple of months. It used an AOL walled garden model and all the services were behind a firewall (and that became a problem much later).
It has been quite a discussion on who really was the first IP based ISP. Mozcom certainly claims to be the first, but in all honesty, Patrick Deakin and I recall that Portal Inc might have preceded Mozcom by a few months as well, via a dial-up SLIP to DLSU. The tech guy at that time was David Dizon.
Then there was another ISP in Bangladesh....but that's a different country and a different story.
Kelsey: ouch, my memory may be faulty then. Maybe it was a gopher service. Or it may have been in one of my subsequent visits to CRC (post-1995). Sure looked like Lynx to me.
Lynx if I'm not mistaken came out only around 2000. Well, in the middle of 1994, there was a widespread program called Mosaic (pre-cursor of Netscape) which really made web pages graphical (and magical during those days). But there is a text based browser during that time of which the name escapes me. However, there were other similar text based services, not necessarily on the world wide web, like wais, archie, etc...
Some funny things about lynx ...
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html
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