TRICKLE

TRICKLE was a file-forwarding service on the BITNET (EARN/NetNorth/GulfNet) network. TRICKLE was a file-forwarding service on the BITNET (EARN/NetNorth/GulfNet) network. When it was created, many sites in Europe only had access to BITNET or compatible networks, and not to the Internet.Therefore, there was a great need to access files that were available only on the Internet. The TRICKLE server allowed anyone on the BITNET-compatible networks to access hundreds of thousands of files from many popular FTP servers around the world.