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  1. I'm fortunate enough to have been born in a period where the internet did not exist. So I saw everything from the beginning as it was being set up in my section of Terra. The internet was such a peaceful place; we could transmit UID PASS information in ASCII text!

    In the period I was born, the smart network people were not even talking about milnet / arpanet

    I'm one of the three persons who is also fortunate enough to build the architecture of the internet in my country of SR SA. At that point in time our phone company had high level Engineers who did not even know the difference between an IP address and a physical House address, let alone know how to ask through Archie.ans.net what a specific RFC is and how it should be downloaded with [email protected].

    None of them could speak Hayes commands like ATX3DT ATA

    @zolaris

    Sources

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILNET

    #RetroComputing #milnet #arpanet #RFC #ftpmail #decwrl #dec #Archie #HAYES #commands #programming

  2. @paninid @StillIRise1963

    richard.rathe.org/2020/contest

    Does this map look familiar? "1876 #US #presidential #election #contested #states

    "#Tilden clearly won the popular vote, but the electoral vote as contested in four states for various reasons. Ironically (from today’s perspective) the Republicans accused the Democrats of suppressing the vote of African Americans in the South."

    "The upshot of all this was the #CompromiseOf1877, an informal bit of horse-trading by #Congress to give the majority of electoral votes to #Hayes in return for the withdrawal of federal troops protecting the rights of former slaves in the South, thus ending #Reconstruction and paving the way for the #JimCrow era to begin."

    A Dark Day for America, Let's Not Allow a Repeat!