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    Re: Linux before the Internet revolution.

    Quote Originally Posted by CharmyBee View Post
    Nope. Linux was primarily dominant for servers in the 90s. Gaming on linux then was limited to pretty much some old x games, the roguelikes, and Doom, Quake and Abuse.
    Slackware was very install to install if your hardware supported it, and it offered the very-nice-but-kind-of-tricky option for the UMSDOS (*) based installations, which basically meant having a directory LINUX in your DOS partition, and starting Linux with loadlin.exe

    ... and Slackware came with the bsdgames text based game set, like ... hangman.

    Also available in Ubuntu, try : apt-cache search bsdgames

    (*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umsdos

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    Re: Linux before the Internet revolution.

    Quote Originally Posted by Grant A. View Post
    Linux was started in 1992.

    The Internet spans before that.
    I thought it was 91
    .i coi rodo

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    Re: Linux before the Internet revolution.

    I have no idea what it was like back then (I was not alive in 1992) but my dad says that he hosted a WWIV BBS (which he made patches for) on a DOS machine around when he was 15. And by my math that means it was around 1984 or so.
    Last edited by JordyD; June 14th, 2009 at 12:53 AM. Reason: Awful math -- 1975 should have been 1984

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    Re: Linux before the Internet revolution.

    The first isp here in Williams Lake started up in 1993, I was customer #12.

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    Re: Linux before the Internet revolution.

    Quote Originally Posted by cariboo907 View Post
    The first isp here in Williams Lake started up in 1993, I was customer #12.
    What is the name of the ISP? Are they still around?

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