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> would suddenly be hosting a ton-o-warez.

which could then be found by searching for "index of"...




It's been a while but I believe that's a response from Apache server not ftp.


... if only we had had search engines then. :)


I used to telnet archie.mcgill.ca to search the collected index of archive sites, back in 1991 or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine




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