I'm the mid-90s I worked at a UK university computer science department. At the time there were no firewalls around the departmental network and pretty much every machine, from the Sun and SGI workstations through to the multi-CPU servers, were directly connected to the Internet. We used NFS, rlogin and co. to transfer files and connect to different machines. I can remember logging into machines remotely from home using a modem, an ISP and passwords-in-the-clear. There was no regime I was aware of to apply software patches to machines.
Looking back, I can't believe how much of a trusting place the internet was back then.
I'm the mid-90s I worked at a UK university computer science department. At the time there were no firewalls around the departmental network and pretty much every machine, from the Sun and SGI workstations through to the multi-CPU servers, were directly connected to the Internet. We used NFS, rlogin and co. to transfer files and connect to different machines. I can remember logging into machines remotely from home using a modem, an ISP and passwords-in-the-clear. There was no regime I was aware of to apply software patches to machines.
Looking back, I can't believe how much of a trusting place the internet was back then.