[Cialug] Fwd: Remember Trumpet Winsock?

[Nathan C. Smith]

I remember Trumpet Winsock.  I remember the company I worked for at the time actually ponied up and cut a check and sent it to New Zealand (I think) for the software.  Enough licenses to cover the people using it.  This was pre Windows 95.  I remember getting the disk back from New Zealand and going, wow!  That was fast.

-Nate


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Barry Von Ahsen
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:19 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: [Cialug] Fwd: Remember Trumpet Winsock?

interesting, I just made a trumpet winsock joke the other day

-barry



-------- Original Message --------

If you're like me, you may recall Trumpet Winsock, that nifty little bit of software that provided an interface from windows to the TCP/IP protocol stack that people all over the world used to connect to the internet for the first time.

So, it turns out, the guy who made this didn't make crap off his work.
Trumpet Winsock was stolen and actively given away on install disks from all the major tech magazines and in corporate installs. He was just a small time guy and his company had no way to fight the rampant theft.

His name was Peter Tattam. Someone on reddit thought it'd be a good idea to start a donation pot to see if folks would pony up for the software that made it possible for them to get to the big wide web. I did. :)

So, go on by if you used it, toss a chip or two in. It's a nice thing to do.


http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/

-Deech

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