IIS 2.0 Web and FTP Services

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Seizure warning: One brief portion of the video contains lots of blinking text, intending to tease the blink tag* that was developed early on in HTML.

Perhaps the most important server application for many organizations is the web server, back when the World Wide Web was at the bottom of its growth. The "Web site", back when it wasn't always made into a compound word, provided information in such an easy-to-access way. New outlooks on vast subjects were in immediate reach from anywhere in the world, which was a convenience libraries and information hotlines just couldn't match.

Microsoft included a version of their software "Internet Information Services" with Windows NT 4.0, giving servers the ability to publish websites to local area networks or the World Wide Web. For some time, IIS also supported the mysterious Gopher protocol; I say mysterious because I don't know anything about it other than it being a competitor of HTTP.

Much has changed since the days of Windows NT 4.0, as the World Wide Web later provoked the creation of web applications that would forever change society as we know it.

Attributions:

• "Night Sky" intro footage by KhPIfilmStudio (was made private some time ago)
• Operating System (Sting) by Twin Musicom (CC-BY)

*Internet Explorer does not support blink tags. JavaScript was used to replicate the effect instead.

Running a Telnet server in Windows NT 4.0 is entirely possible, but nothing all that special. It could be used to remotely administer another system, provided the software required can be use entirely within the command line.

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(According to Wikipedia) Gopher is not just a competitor to HTTP but rather a different take on information sharing. It acts as a hub for various pre-W3 netservices into a filesystem-like menu. It fizzled out due to weak publicization which I think is due to it not having something like a "WSYIWYG menu maker" nor having grand commercialization in general.

Personally I find Gopher to be a boring FTP spin-off. "Modern Gopher" spaces(0) in the TCP-verse with unofficial "information item type" are effectively WordPress-tier blogs with no styles. There is also Gemini which is a modern-Gopher-inspired protocol with forced TLS and having few selected semantic formattings from HTML baked into structure of all documents served on capsules(1).

(0): Gopher equivalent of W3 sites
(1): Gemini equivalent of W3 sites

(The "Personally" part was based on my actual experience while I was using FreeBSD as my daily driver.)

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