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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.

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I ran NCSA httpd with IRIX on an SGI circa 1994 give or take.

Summer of 1989 someone showed me how to use BITNET to connect to other campuses, on a terminal connected to the campus VAX running VMS.

I dialed in, but soon learned how to use telnet to connect to the WELL, which at the time (circa 1991?) was running DYNIX on Sequent hardware.