Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud modems…   

in ’93 or so.  (I was a child, in Jr High…)

-Ben.


-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>




> On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, bzs () theworld com wrote:
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> On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aaron1 () gvtc com (Aaron Gould) wrote:
> > Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps 
> > internet uplink , lol
>
> Point of History:
>
> When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the
> internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1
> (1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers
> shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them.
>
> * It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area
> customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many.
>
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
>
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