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sinza Apr 8, 2024

What platforms were used in the 80s up to about 1993 or 1994 for Internet servers? It can be #FTP, #Gopher, #telnet, #USENET, the #OldWeb, or anything else that was on the Internet in that era.

My research indicates Solaris was very popular for web servers until Linux took over, and so I suspect it (and SunOS before it) was very popular for the Internet in general, but I'd like to hear from anyone with this sort of experience.

#retrocomputing

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Jeff

@sinza BSD is the elephant in the room. 4BSD for the 80s and early 90s, particularly 4.3BSD, with BSD/OS and 386BSD having some traction at the end of the period. 4BSD was the development platform for TCP/IP in the 80s. SunOS (up to 4.x) was Sun Microsystem's version of BSD. (NetBSD and FreeBSD forked from 386BSD and 4.4BSD in 1993, but only really caught on later in the 90s, and thanks to USL v BSDi, got eclipsed by Linux.)