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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Networks alternative to Internet Post 302402876 by Corona688 on Wednesday 10th of March 2010 10:38:36 PM
Old 03-10-2010
I used compuserve back in the day. It was a network of sorts, at least among its service half. Ordinary people dialed in. I was quite young at the time but I remember it mostly as a ball of services. My father used it instead of DATAPAC to access medical research, it meant that instead of having to sign up for access to one silly remote mainframe at exorbatant prices then fight for dial-in time, you could sign up for compuserve and access it more cheaply and conveniently -- if that system was offered on compuserve. They also had something like email, file repositories, and forums, and a search that could (slowly) trawl through them all.

It's all gone now as far as I can tell. Compuserve bit by bit became an internet provider instead of a compuserve provider, compuserve messaging dumped for more globally-useful email, compuserve search dumped for, in those days, the woefully more primitive web spiders... It's only now that Google's parcelled up its internet search that it's anything like it was. Forums and repositories either dumped outright or converted to web, prices going up as their lucrative big services dumped them to make web interfaces(so they could charge ordinary people ridiculous prices again, bleh!).

If there's not decent internet access where you are, the data lines just may not be there. Compuserve was built out of data lines too.
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

systemd-networkd.service

SYSTEMD-NETWORKD.SERVICE(8)				     systemd-networkd.service				       SYSTEMD-NETWORKD.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-networkd.service, systemd-networkd - Network manager

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-networkd.service

       /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-networkd is a system service that manages networks. It detects and configures network devices as they appear, as well as creating
       virtual network devices.

       To configure low-level link settings independently of networks, see systemd.link(5).

       systemd-networkd will create network devices based on the configuration in systemd.netdev(5) files, respecting the [Match] sections in
       those files.

       systemd-networkd will manage network addresses and routes for any link for which it finds a .network file with an appropriate [Match]
       section, see systemd.network(5). For those links, it will flush existing network addresses and routes when bringing up the device. Any
       links not matched by one of the .network files will be ignored. It is also possible to explicitly tell systemd-networkd to ignore a link by
       using Unmanaged=yes option, see systemd.network(5).

       When systemd-networkd exits, it generally leaves existing network devices and configuration intact. This makes it possible to transition
       from the initrams and to restart the service without breaking connectivity. This also means that when configuration is updated and
       systemd-networkd is restarted, netdev interfaces for which configuration was removed will not be dropped, and may need to be cleaned up
       manually.

CONFIGURATION FILES

       The configuration files are read from the files located in the system network directory /lib/systemd/network, the volatile runtime network
       directory /run/systemd/network and the local administration network directory /etc/systemd/network.

       Networks are configured in .network files, see systemd.network(5), and virtual network devices are configured in .netdev files, see
       systemd.netdev(5).

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd.link(5), systemd.network(5), systemd.netdev(5), systemd-networkd-wait-online.service(8)

systemd 237													       SYSTEMD-NETWORKD.SERVICE(8)
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