gloriouscowIt is not too late to register your Trumpet Winsock.
okay hold the fuck up
Peter Tattam, the author of Trumpet Winsock, has a SOUNDCLOUD
and you can listen to him PLAYING THE TRUMPET
Peter Tattam
My musical skills are piano, keyboards, trumpet, vocal soloist in contemporary and classical, song writing, arranging, midi sequencing. In real life, I'm a software developer and I've also built MID
Wikipedia is telling me that Trumpet Winsock 1.0A was released in February of 1994. Windows 95 came out in late August of 1995.
18 months. I would have sworn I spent years exploring the internet on Windows 3.1. Memory is a funny thing.
Jernej Simončič �@gloriouscow I only got internet access in early '96, and by then I already had Windows 95. I did see Trumpet at a friend a few months earlier, but never used it personally.
@jernej__s before Trumpet Winsock we were all just sitting around on our butts in text mode terminal emulators using Lynx to read gopher sites about trains
Alaric Snell-Pym@jernej__s @gloriouscow I used Trumpet to dial into my Demon Internet account, as an upgrade from KA9Q under DOS... Had to use it under 95/98 as well to connect my PC to the university accommodation Internet connection, which was via a fixed serial line to a PPP server in the basement; windows' PPP stack assumed you were using a modem and couldn't be configured to just login without dialling first! This meant we were immune to the MS IP stack bugs like ping-of-death...