On 8/8/2017 11:22 AM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
> For maybe 15 years or so the "DropBox" was registered to a metal 
> working group of people like Conchologists list at UGA.
>
> I was a full member and have posted there many times.  The company 
> backing us, like UGA is, went the way of the wind.
> An employee there was allowed to rescue the files, off their server, 
> and create an offsite web based site called
> Metalworking DropBox.
>
> Both are directories of disk structure like you might have on your 
> server or local PC.
> A Web GUI allows selection and viewing.  The various files were/are 
> PDF/text/pictures/database files...
> And each year another major folder is created.  Topically within are 
> collected the data.
> Much like the list server in text files by topic.
>
> Being 70, and having a high speed web before most organizations and 
> companies knew about the network much less the web
> gave me a tech background.  I'm a retired design engineer 
> (Electronics) and group IT.  We wired the world to 100 countries and
> Fednet (Federal Gov) and later MILLnet then joined the network 
> worldwide.  We had wired most countries embassy during the first 
> several years and was the major reason for the other GOV nets to join 
> in a larger net.  We had (retired) up/down links with earth
> stations and laid hard wire (pre production of fiber or use). (office 
> folk laying cable is a kick.  It started as a department level in 
> various companies buying modems and hooking them to our computers.  
> The first year was mostly local budgets.  Then we were funded.  
> Schlumberger was the company,  Sinet their IT group. But they outgrew 
> the parent company in many ways and were divested to themselves.  Now 
> a worldwide consulting IT company.
>
> Martin
>
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