Re: Re: Text browsers
  By: Paulie420 to Nightfox on Wed May 06 2020 08:11 am

 Pa> LOL, I'm 40, and we had a very similair path to internet. I also used
 Pa> TOCOWS back then; and FTP... I remember using a UNIX prompt to get around
 Pa> at first, and went over to my girlfriends house where her father showed me
 Pa> Trumpter Winsock... in the last post I confused that for TCP/IP. Yup...
 Pa> the rest is history, huh!! 

You're the same age as me.  :P  I remember when ISPs often provided a UNIX
shell account.  I never really knew all the reasons why you'd need one, but one
thing I used to do to help speed up my FTP downloads was to first log into my
ISP shell account and download the file there using wget or something (which
would transfer very fast) and then download it from my ISP account via FTP,
which would download basically as fast as possible for me.  Sometimes I noticed
that downloading from FTP sites was slow even for dialup, and downloading it to
my ISP space first helped a bit sometimes.

 Pa> BTW, today TUCOWS is still around... they also created TING cell phone

Yep..  That's why I had mentioned they seemed to change the W from Winsock to
Windows, so now it's The Ultimate Collection Of Windows Software.

 Pa> I'm still angry @ myself for dropping out of computers a little bit after
 Pa> that time. Went to my career, and just picked linux back up a year ago...
 Pa> thats why I'm so stoked about BBSes being around again. Cheers, its neat
 Pa> remembering about 'back in the day'... 

:)  I've always been into computers, and my career is computer-related.

Nightfox

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