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1990s: Browser vendors and ZoneAlarm firewall invent interruptive security.
Your machine received a packet on port 139 from 192.168.1.7. Do you want to allow or block?
Your machine received a packet on port 137 from 192.168.1.9. Do you want to allow or block?
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Of course, that was when #Win95 / #Win98 / #Win98SE had no security on file sharing. And when people often plugged directly into cable modems and your “network neighborhood” was actually everyone in your neighborhood with cable Internet.
Still, I’m glad that we’ve gotten beyond constantly interrupting people to have them make choices about whether to allow or deny network requests.
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I remember one of my brothers got cable back then. They told him that he should never turn off his computer or it might lose its IP address. I showed him his “Network Neighborhood” and suggested ZoneAlarm as a temporary measure until he could purchase a router. One of my sisters’ husband got a laptop with Wi-Fi. It turned out that someone named “Steve” (based on the …
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@vegos LOL. I missed everything before I finally bought a used computer in 1997 (running #Win3.1 ... or maybe Windows for Workgroups 3.11 ... the previous owner had all sorts of stuff; gopher, archie, ftp, a collection of women in swimsuits images; a winsock program)
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