Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes: I was a FidoNet user. A sort of distributed BBS network. Dial into a local node, pick up and send messages. The local nodes would exchange messages throughout the day (usually at night). Dial in the next day to get the newly distributed message. Repeat

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1328418173.16719.291.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net, on 02/04/2012 at 11:02 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net said: And, of course, CompuServe And many others. Unlike CompuServe, the typical BBS didn't use a proprietary protocol. For that matter, neither did fido. BTW, I know of at least

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/2012b.html#46 What s going on in the redbooks site? there was also tymshare and its tymnet network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet tymshare provided online vm370 service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare ... and in Aug. 1976 started offering its online computer conferencing service free to SHARE

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/~lynn/2012b.html#46 What s going on in the redbooks site? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#49 What s going on in the redbooks site? recent post in a.f.c. with a little WAIS lore: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#9 The round wheels industry is heading for collapse -- virtualization

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In blu0-smtp1138c6cadd7f4c3cd57c1adb6...@phx.gbl, on 02/03/2012 at 11:07 AM, Ken Hume, IBM kph...@live.com said: What did we ever do before the internet came along. The Internet[1] is not the Web. Before the WWW, we had Archie, FTP, Gopher and other services that in many ways were more

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-04 Thread John McKown
I was a FidoNet user. A sort of distributed BBS network. Dial into a local node, pick up and send messages. The local nodes would exchange messages throughout the day (usually at night). Dial in the next day to get the newly distributed message. Repeat daily. Loved my 56Kb modem. And, of course,