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Inclou el nom: Ed Krol

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1951-08-21
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The internet before the World Wide Web, when it seemed to be little more than a glorified remote file store with misplaced text files to discover.
 
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sfj2 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 13, 2022 |
 
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BmoreMetroCouncil | Feb 9, 2017 |
Man, this thing was like a view over the horizon when I got a copy (third edition) in 1993. Its list of public-accessible FTP sites and telnet servers was likea starving man reading the menu from a four-star restaurant.

I used a Vax acount at Boston College to visit as many of these things as I could, regardless of what they offfered. The Drosophilia database? Sure! Cool! The Youngstown (OH) Freenet via telnet? Great, I spent lots of time there. "Zen and the Art of the Internet" in PostScript? Great, I can print it out...Wait, why is that angry man emerging from the print room with 700 sheets of paper?

Hah! Here's the receipt, still inside: Wordsworth Books in Boston, 5/08/93. Man, good times, good times...
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wenestvedt | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 26, 2005 |

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Obres
8
Membres
369
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#65,264
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½ 3.5
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
12
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5

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