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vintage_networking

Stories and technologies from the early days of TCP/IP, SLIP,PPP, Modems, packet radio, and home networking.

Old CD-ROMs, code fragments, and a faint waveform—symbols of a hacker’s thirty-year fight against entropy and the digital quest for persistence.

Fight Entropy: From Group42 to Mycal Music

A beige 1990s CRT monitor displaying the Mosaic web browser with terminal commands for SLIP tunneling below the page.

Surfing the Web in 1993: How I Ran Mosaic Over Dial-Up with a CRL.net Shell Account