[ih] History of Anonymous FTP

[Dave Crocker]

The history of the Web usually has citations to work such as Engelbarts, 
for its conceptual history.  And that's entirely reasonable.  But that 
system was not a widely distributed set of independent operations.

So I always point to Anonymous FTP as the operational base, for the 
model.  We relied on it for roughly 20 years, before gopher and the web 
gave us improved choices.

But I don't remember the details of when Anonymous FTP came into 
service.  Just did a quick search and didn't find anything helpful.

Perhaps this group knows some relevant details?

d/
-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net