in the days before cloud storage and thumbdrives

[online3days]

how did the website that sayd "index of /" work? and how did the FTP'ing work where i just put a file on my desktop in the folder named "dan12345". and i want to get the file at someone else's house. and i think this was before the days of remote desktop (or not) and at the beginning of FTP clients where id use the web browser and put (i forget the correct path): somepieceiforgot@somethingiforgetalso.com to access my file on the browser and that house (place #2).

so, how did that all work?

 

[rgd1101]

Website you are seeing is running on a server.

 

[online3days]

Website you are seeing is running on a server.

but i want to know about EVERYTHING I ASKED ABOUT above.

how does this work then:

i write in a text document. and save it on my computer. and i want to get it over the internet on a 2nd pc somewhere else. and i type some ftp info into my web browser on the 2nd pc and i get the text file over there. how does step 1 to whatever step work?

 

[online3days]

i was just curious. hows it ALL work that i mentioned in my Q please?

 

[kanewolf]

You told your browser that you wanted to use ftp protocol by starting the URL with the ftp: There are other possible protocols. The URL then gets translated into an IP address and the ftp protocol identifies what port to access at that IP address. Assuming there is a server at that IP address and listening on the ftp port (which is a standard), then your browser and the ftp server interact to get the file transferred from your PC to somewhere (where ever the IP address corresponds to physically). You can then go do the same from location 2 to retrieve the file. It is really the same as Dropbox.