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Unrelated to this content (I think), tuwien.ac.at is a domain I have not seen nor thought of in decades. I see that there’s new stuff there too, but does anyone recall why this might have been a well-known domain in the 90s? I feel like I used to regularly read some content or download software from there, probably UNIX stuff.


I had the _exact_ same feeling; when I read your comment I started googling a bit but I came up short. In my case it should probably have been one or some of: MUDs, Linux, Debian, Amiga, shareware, usenet, IRC.


Yeah, same. Likely UNIX utilities, Linux software or howtos (Red Hat, Debian), maybe usenet. Maybe an FTP repository?


Maybe a combination of these — I found this:

http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~www/particle/Doc/debnotes.html

Debian 1.x/2.x days, likely a prominent mirror?


It's the Vienna University of Technology, and places like that often run mirrors.


I recognised it because I got into Forth in the last 5-10 years, and the author Anton Ertl was with Bernd Paysan the creator of GForth in the early 90s.

Otherwise, see here for his CV, interests, links which may trigger your memory

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html




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