[hackerspaces] Remember Trumpet Winsock?

[ITechGeek]

Although now that I think about it, I think XP has or probably will
set the record for the all-time most pirated software out there.

It was the primary OS from Microsoft from 2002 (or maybe 2001) until I
think 2007?

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, ITechGeek <ITG at itechgeek.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember some ISPs having issues getting Win95 (or maybe
> they just didn't want to provide extra phone support for users) to
> work w/ their SLIP connections and still giving out copies of Trumpet
> Winsock until they got those resolved.  If I remember correctly
> Trumpet Winsock was one of those nice little programs that the company
> gives you the software to install, then you load 1 script that has all
> the required settings (in some cases username/password pre-entered)
> and phone numbers.
>
> No having to walk users through where to put what.
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Jeff Keyzer <jeff at mightyohm.com> wrote:
>> I suspect that some variant of Windows (95?) is the most pirated piece of
>> software in history...
>>
>> - mightyohm
>>
>> On 3/3/2011 4:59 PM, ITechGeek wrote:
>>>
>>> I was just thinking, I wonder if that makes this the most pirated
>>> piece of software in history?  Everyone I know w/ a Windows 3.1
>>> machine in the mid-90's had this or AOL.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:52 PM, ITechGeek<ITG at itechgeek.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I will pass the site on to a couple mailing lists I'm on.  And I plan
>>>> to pay a little later.
>>>>
>>>> I remember having my first SLIP connection at home and how different
>>>> Netscape was at viewing the web then Lynx (=
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Sven Guckes
>>>> <maillist-hackerspaces-discuss at guckes.net>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> * Deech<deech at ninjacow.net>  [2011-03-03 18:25]:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Trumpet Winsock..  His name was Peter Tattam.
>>>>>> http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> never used Trumpet Winsock..  but
>>>>> it sure was a great start for many.
>>>>> glad to see that someone remembers
>>>>> the man behind the program and has
>>>>> set up such a website.  great! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Sven
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