[ih] History of Anonymous FTP

[touch at strayalpha.com]

Hi, all,

Does anyone remember when each of the following happened:

	anonymous/no password
	guest/no password
	anonymous/anonymous
	anonymous/guest
	guest/guest
	ftp/ftp

I recall seeing these variants (there may have been others).

Joe
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Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
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> On Sep 29, 2021, at 5:39 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> On 9/28/2021 8:56 PM, Darius Kazemi wrote:
>> There is of course Padlipsky's anecdote (that probably won't settle anything to anyone's satisfaction) on the invention of anonymous login for FTP:
> 
> While one should never take an "I'm the inventor and here are the details" statement on it's own(*), the existence of it can, of course, be helpful.  I'm not an historian, but I'd assume that it would count as part of a collection of bits of complementary information, to form a 'likelihood' assessment.
> 
> So, for example, I've been saying that I know Anonymous FTP was not in the initial use but appeared quickly, and I guess around 1974 or 1975. Padlisky's claim of 1973 is close enough, IMO, since that leaves some buffer for propagation (and impinging on my slow awareness.)
> 
> So, no, it doesn't 'settle' the question, but I'd count it as helpful. Thanks!
> 
> d/
> 
> (*) As least he didn't claim to invent email.
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