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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.
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> 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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