On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:26:04PM -0700, Mirimir wrote:
So I just came across https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port on HN. And read:
| On July 12, 1995, at 2:32am, I announced a final beta version to | my beta testers at Helsinki University of Technology. At 5:23pm I | announced ssh-1.0.0 packages to my beta testers. At 5:51pm on | July 12, 1995, I sent an announcement about SSH (Secure Shell) to | the cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list. I also posted it to a few | newsgroups, mailing lists, and directly to selected people who | had discussed related topics on the Internet.
The only list he mentions by name is this one!
That's just fucking sad.
Well, it was a different time and a different list back then, wasnt it? There was basically no www, or at least not by todays standards (mosaic came out in 1993 I believe)... I was a wee fucker, connecting via dial up and free bbs -> {gopher,archie,usenet} gateways... but mainly usenet :P There were alt.binaries.* already in 1995, in addition to all the different newsgroups that were comprised of actual discussion, not just spam. I believe Linus announced the first release of Linux on one of the minix newsgroups in like '91, which lead to the famous Tannenbaum <-> Torvalds flame war... The good old days :P John -- GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4 C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7