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Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

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http://128.237.157.9/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/...

It's a shame browser makers removed FTP:// browsing support.

FTP was a lot more fun than the homogeneous blob of HTTP we have today. I only discovered FTP transparently via web browsing and clicking around as a kid.

When I was 12-13, I attempted to download the entirety of a linux install CD this way because I was unaware of FTP clients.

Could we build a web-based service that acts like an FTP browser for the internet?

Yes you could, but ftp:// links still won't be clickable, which kills the discovery aspect. :: sadblob ::

http://128.237.157.9/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/ubuntu/...

Deepest level

Feels a bit badger-badger-badger-badger...

Thaz my name, don't wear it out.

Hey, a scene.org mirror! Does anyone know if this Opiate is Thomas Knak? This one sounds a lot like him:

http://128.237.157.9/pub/scene.org/music/artists/opiate/opia...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/401-Opiate

Edit: fun, they have my old hippocamp album too :) http://128.237.157.9/pub/scene.org/music/groups/hippocamp/hc...

This is another Opiate, Huw Roberts, who was releasing on the (now defunct) Miasmah net label in the early 2000s, but is still running a label called Serein to this today! What a blast from the past... Nice tunes too

With the exception of one comment, which simply restated the link correctly, no one here has pointed out that the URL provided is not in fact served by an FTP server.

Starting a link with http, makes it a WWW link which is expected to be interpreted as HTML, and is served by an WWW server.

An FTP URL would be: ftp://128.237.157.9/pub

Where the leading ftp: designates how the link is to be interpreted. The so called "scheme" of the URL.

In reply to other comments: my browser supports the ftp: scheme without issue.

Ironically, when using the ftp: scheme in the URL, the /pub directory query returns an error: 550 Failed to change directory.

Whereas removing that subdirectory, and just using the scheme and IP address does return the files and subdirectories served by the FTP server (at least the ones with public permissions).

Whereas the http: URL to the same IP and /pub directory does return successfully. With the contents correctly served by the WWW server.

Therefore, this was probably not a great example to use for a post regarding FTP servers. Since the URL http://128.237.157.9/pub is actually served by a WWW server...

It's also worth noting, that the http URL: http://128.237.157.9/pub/

Points to the same data as the ftp URL: ftp://128.237.157.9/

While the http URL: http://128.237.157.9/ points to the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club home page.

Nice games music library, thanks! http://128.237.157.9/pub/HVSC/C64Music/GAMES/A-F/

The canonical source for that is https://www.hvsc.c64.org/ and it's awesome.

Some of the http://128.237.157.9/pub/core-mp3s/ files are an interesting record of the past.

Big Amiga fans (and still are) from what I see. =)

Oh my goodness I completely forgot about Knoppix.

How come? This is golden standard for secure computing: read only os image. Immutable by laws of physics heheh

Anybody from CMU, tell your ITSO people to calm down, it's just a few nerds rediscovering something.

I opened the first of these at random:

http://128.237.157.9/pub/core-mp3s/

http://128.237.157.9/pub/core-mp3s/core-2000-02-25.mp3

Turned out to be an interesting historical snapshot in light of the current metal prices. A pre-9/11 discussion about the then-growing, now-defunct eGold. The thing that was trying to be Bitcoin before Bitcoin.

Kind of sad that we're stuck with the one that heats the Earth because Bush/Cheney decided we couldn't have the energy efficient one.

Ethereum is extremely energy efficient after the switch to proof of stake and ready to be used any time.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption

The general premise of cryptocurrency is that the architecture makes it so you can't prevent it from being used for crimes and thereby creates the incentive for the government to gracefully take the L and peel back all of the now-useless AML bureaucracy that screws over innocent people rather than criminals.

What they didn't account for is that the government is run by an amalgamation of spiteful authoritarian twits, dogmatic process bureaucrats and corrupt industry shills who don't want competition when they're quietly extracting 3% from the whole economy. So they apply the bad rules to the new thing even though it means paying all the costs for none of the benefits, which makes it arduous for law-abiding people to use it (have fun filling out government paperwork every time you want to buy a piece of chewing gum) meanwhile the criminals just ignore the repressive reporting requirements because they're already committing more serious crimes.

Remember when we were going to repeal the entire Patriot Act? Maybe we should still do that.

ftp://128.237.157.9/pub

nice!

Why is this noteworthy in 2026?

Yeah I’m also not sure what I’m supposed to be looking at. Maybe just the fact that it’s still running in 2026 is what’s interesting?

Tons of these sorts of sites are still online.

Why is this noteworthy in 2026?

Why are almost every one of your comments since you signed up angry criticism, except for the ones where you demonstrate deep knowledge of the Russian language?

Do they not allow fun things in Russia?

It is fun!

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