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		chungy on Aug 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Was the Microsoft Network? > It was a kind of version of the Web where you could browse online data the same way you browsed your file system. This is what made it cool. That sounds like Gopher.

gaius on Aug 30, 2018 [–]

In those days you could mount \\ftp.microsoft.com as m: and browse it as a file share, unencrypted SMB over the public internet !

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