Comment on The story of how the SSH port became 22.

teft@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s an interesting story anyway, kind of fun how the early days of the internet people just decided to build stuff and that random little tool from decades ago continue to be the backbone of much of the world. Imagine if all that stuff was proprietary…

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  • Rhaedas@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True of many things we take for granted now. It would be a different world entirely. Another non-computer example would be the 3-point seat belt that Volvo left as an open patent, saving countless lives over the past decades.

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This could’ve been an email

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• starman@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It also explains why it’s 22

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• LinearArray@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The story is interesting though.

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  • Opafi@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What part of the story are you referring to? The part where he asked for port 22 or the part where he got it?

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