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by serious_angel
3 hours ago
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> Many early modems were acoustic couplers attached to telephone handsets using Velcro — one part was a microphone, the other a speaker. You connected by dialling the phone...
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> Tools like the Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (UUCP) used scripts that called cu or similar tools to establish connections, then transferred data...
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> UUCP was how we sent mail, read network news, and received (small) files. For much of the research community, it effectively was the network...
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> Sockets changed all this.
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> Source: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/hooray-for-the-sockets-interface
So much has changed... yet so much has not... All are pure marvels and based on dear miracles... |
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