NFS requires UDP/IP, which works just fine over the Internet (DNS also uses
this). By the turn of the Millennium, it would have been quite easy to mount
an NFS share from a university computer over a modem link to the Internet
from
home. I have absolutely no doubt that people who started using Linux
or UNIX
earlier than I did really did that.
After that, all you have to do is run a
recursive grep over a part of your
filesystem tree that includes both local
files and the NFS mount, and you have
implemented Claim 1. Never mind that it
has to download the files in order to
search through them, that's an irrelevant
detail for later optimisation.
Claim 2 seems to be all about receiving a
search request from another
computer over the Internet, and performing the
search on local files
belonging to the remote user in response to that.
Arguably, typing in a
recursive grep command on a shell account would implement
that claim, and
there were certainly plenty of shell accounts going around
before 2000.
And again, we ignore all the fancy talk in the Description
about stuff that's
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