Let us now praise obsolete protocols.

[swag]

Snaps to Gopher. You served us well.

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. Usenet...

VI > emacs

[swag]

2. All praise Usenet!

Here's my favorite ever Usenet post:

Date: 29 OCT 1995 23:18:33 GMT
From: Jones town <>
Newgroups: alt.skinheads, alt.punk
Subject: Re: kkk get out of the montreal crust punk way

We are the Montreal crust punk and I drink my fucking beer and spit it in the face of you nazi dogs. Squat in the anarchy of montreal crust punk and you will learn how to be real hard.Come see how the real punks live and shut your fashist dog mouth or I cut your tongue out with broken beer bottle.Piss in your direction for fun when I have drunk a bottle of punk piss.Come put my cigaretts out in the nose of fashism for the crust punk pipe bomb Quebec separation revolution.Separate, separate Vive Lucian Bushard. Punks in the anarchy wish you go to a small country and we drop H-Bomb on it.I see you cut you hair off now you never gonna get a Mohawk,so the put you in the army to defend Capitalism and trhe corporation! Drink a bucket of squat piss in your direction on a monday night after the punk street hockey.Vive Jean Cladue Van DAM cos his mongrel ass would beat the punk piss out of your fashist behind.I tell you the street word is we are drunking beer for the revolution of the Quebec and th separation with pipe bombs of the canaduh.


Vive Quebec and lucian burshard

[qnr]

20. Sheesh, I use NNTP more than I use HTTP n/t

[qnr]

21. self-delete n/t

[bridgit]

3. i am only able to marvel at what seems to be...

:cry:

[NightWatcher]

4. anybody remember gwbasic?

hey, that could be the president's nickname

[swag]

6. Oh yeah.

That came bundled with DOS 3, right?

[Jimbo S]

29. I still have it

Since learning VB I've had no use for it, but it's still around and I could always fire it up for old time's sake.

[SKKY]

5. R.I.P. IPX/SPX and AppleTalk

We're all glad you've seen the light at the end of the TCP/IP tunnel

[swag]

7. IP everywhere!

I do miss my Netware 4.x servers, though. You could perfomance-tune the fuck out of those suckers and not reboot for years on end.

[SKKY]

12. Dude, My Internal DNS Server runs Red Hat 6.2 on an old Dell PowerEdge...

...and I seriously can't remember the last time I rebooted it. It's been at least 18 months. I have one ready to deploy is this thing breaks, but now it's just a game of "See How Long It Can Last."

[swag]

13. Godspeed.

Me, I'm in a must-do-Windows environment, so I can only express my envy at your DNS server's awesomeness.

[Shakespeare]

8. AAAHHHH!!! GRAD SCHOOL FLASHBACK!!

I think I'll have a seizure now, thanks very much. :scared:

[swag]

11. I'm sorry.

I know it's sick and wrong.

[swag]

9. Zmodem worked really well for downloading and uploading.

[swag]

10. Wow. "Evolution and selection of File Transfer Protocols."

http://www.omen.com/zmdmev.html

Those were the days, my friend
we thought they'd never end

[swag]

14. I'm shocked that nobody has mentioned Finger.

[SKKY]

15. Uh-Oh, it just came to me!!!

NetBUI Bitches!!!!!!!!! :P

[swag]

17. You are terrible.

The worst, man, the worst!

[Book Lover]

16. I pine for pine

[swag]

18. I have two shell accounts where I still use it, obsolete though it may be.

May God Bless You and May God Bless the University of Washington.

[swag]

19. Does anyone still use PPTP?

Did anyone ever?

[qnr]

22. Archie! n/t

[jpgray]

23. Prodigy.

[Book Lover]

25. Compuserve

[swag]

24. Attention must be paid.

[Little Wing]

26. WINS over Frame Relay anyone?

/not that old

[Squatch]

27. Listserv

still around, but needs to go away.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. ARCnet, gone but not forgotten ..

well, ok, gone AND forgotten

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET

[ChoralScholar]

30. Transferring files via XModem and Kermit

Slow-ass protocols to say the least - but, as my dad says, "That used to be the way we had to go."

[hfojvt]

31. Gopher wasn't nearly as good

as the bartender, or Doc.
But he did get elected to Congress :crazy: