It’s weird to have grown up with things like bbc micro and MS-DOS and see how alien the terminal is to people who didn’t.
Back then CLIs were all over, even like library catalog terminals, were CLI. TBF some still had card indexes though.
At university everyone had to ssh in to the email server from whatever tty client even on windows (nt4/nt5/98/2k/mackintosh PCs).
You definitely didn’t feel like any hacker. The hacker level thing was to successfully connect via GUI mail client and actually have your emails update and sync properly - very few bothered.
I vaguely remember using putty on port 22 which i thought was ssh, but maybe it was telnet.
we were leaving the 90s by then, so I think ssh was around.
Might also have been different protocol on the uni LAN vs WAN connections.
The libraries I remember might have been direct terminals to local server.
Few catalogs were available even on the uni-wide LAN.
No big deal really since you’re going to have to go there to find the book anyway.
The catalog room was an acceptable place to have a chat or lament the size of the reading list.
It’s weird to have grown up with things like bbc micro and MS-DOS and see how alien the terminal is to people who didn’t.
Back then CLIs were all over, even like library catalog terminals, were CLI. TBF some still had card indexes though.
At university everyone had to ssh in to the email server from whatever tty client even on windows (nt4/nt5/98/2k/mackintosh PCs).
You definitely didn’t feel like any hacker. The hacker level thing was to successfully connect via GUI mail client and actually have your emails update and sync properly - very few bothered.
Do you mean telnet?
Very possibly.
I vaguely remember using putty on port 22 which i thought was ssh, but maybe it was telnet. we were leaving the 90s by then, so I think ssh was around. Might also have been different protocol on the uni LAN vs WAN connections.
The libraries I remember might have been direct terminals to local server. Few catalogs were available even on the uni-wide LAN. No big deal really since you’re going to have to go there to find the book anyway.
The catalog room was an acceptable place to have a chat or lament the size of the reading list.