Questions tagged [internet]
Connecting retro systems to the Internet, and historical aspects of the Internet: software, hardware, protocols. DO NOT USE WHEN MERELY ASKING ABOUT HISTORICAL RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET OF TODAY.
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How to connect old Nokia 3220 phone to a modern computer? Or login to Drive on the phone? [to transfer data from phone]
I have an old Nokia 3220 mobile, which has an "Internet" app built-in. The phone does not have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi support.
Now, there are some files on the phone that I would like to keep (...
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After creating HTML, why did Tim Berners-Lee bother creating HTTP? Why didn't he just write a HTML renderer for a FTP client?
My beginning 'facts' in this question are:
HTTP is essentially nothing more than a file transfer protocol that only moves HTML.
Networked file transfer protocols were well established by 1991, were ...
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What were the major things that caused TCP/IP to become the internet standard protocol?
I was wondering what were the major reasons that TCP/IP became the protocol used to communicate over the Internet, as this was uncertain for quite some time in the 80'es and early 90'es.
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Setting email up on MacOS System 7
I recently got internet set up on my new Macintosh Color Classic and with a lot of hardship, set up the WebOne proxy, meaning I can load https websites. Most HTML 3+ websites still don't work in iCab, ...
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How did the AOL software provide internet access to other applications running on Windows 95/98?
During the late 1990s, I (and countless others) accessed the internet by running software provided by America Online (mailed to my house on free CD-ROMs) and using a dial-up modem to access their ...
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ARPANET IMP topology using NCP
According to Internet Daemons, the notion of 'gateways' was introduced practically simultaneously with the TCP protocol. From what I have read, early NCP addresses were 8 bits: 2 to specify the host ...
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What systems actually used the ACCT command in FTP?
FTP has a USER command for sending the user name and a PASS command for sending the password. It also has an ACCT command, as RFC 959 page 26 explains:
ACCOUNT (ACCT)
The argument field is a ...
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What were the earliest images uploaded on the internet before the web? [closed]
What's the earliest images uploaded on the internet before the protocol the web existed? People believed the Cernettes image was the first image on the internet when it's actually the first image on ...
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How fast was ARPANET?
I've heard that the first time a message was sent through it was "lo" since the SDS 940 crashed before the full message of "login" was able to be sent through.
However, I have been ...
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Why was the percent sign chosen as escape character for URLs?
URIs use percent encoding to represent characters which would otherwise be reserved (like the forward slash - %2F), not always displayable or recognizable (Unicode characters, e.g. non-Latin letters) ...
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What was the first satellite data link that can properly be called an internet connection?
Scott Manley, in his second video about communication satellites, focusing on the 1963 Telstar 1, mentioned at 10:22:
(Telstar 1) could be used for telephones it could carry multiple circuits, it ...
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How were images uploaded in online service providers?
Before the first image was uploaded on the World Wide Web in 1992, it was possible for people to upload images on the internet before the World Wide Web, users uploaded images on online service ...
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Why did they switch from phone numbers to IP addresses? [closed]
Before IPv4 addresses there were phone numbers.
Why did they switch to IPv4 addresses to address devices in the internet?
I thought one reason is you need addresses in the local LAN. But I could even ...
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Why was there never added C/C++ (native) support to HTML web pages? [closed]
I wonder why they never added an interface to run native code (for example assembly/C/C++/Rust...) to HTML web pages? Because without it CPU intense games will never run in the browser.
Some people ...
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Was QotD (and RFCs 862-867) actually insecure?
I am fascinated by these 6 obsolete internet protocols, all written up as seperate RFCs by Jon Postel in May 1983. They are hilariously simple. (Which I mean as a compliment; their simplicity inspires ...
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