On 7 May 2020, at 13:19, David Reader <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 7 May 2020, at 10:56, Tim Chown wrote: The 6th form college I attended between '96-'98 had a /24 with all machines publicly addressed. [..snip..] Of course, it’s worth remembering the web didn’t exist back then It definitely existed when I was using NCSA Mosaic prior to that. Yeah, sorry, mixing my decades :) Reminds me to re-read Mark Handley and Jon Crowcroft’s book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Wide-Web-Beneath-Surf/dp/1857284356. This lists the (very) small number of web pages that existed in 1993/94. I recall the days where there was a *page* listing all the web pages :) Sat at SunOS workstations in a /16 wide open to the whole world & naively exposing telnet, ftp, finger, and so on.. Happy days, of sorts! Tim
