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Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
From: Brian <brian () nc-ct net>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:07:15 -0500
On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc <gleduc () sdsu edu> wrote:
Does this thread make me not only think about the days of old, but also makes me feel older! Not going back as far as some here but around 1993ish... My first connection back in the day was a shell account I was given as consultant and reseller for what was TIAC (then became PSI). I was also at the time running a 6 line MajorBBS system (prior to WorldGroup). TIAC allowed multiple concurrent logins to the shell so I purchased the MajorBBS dialout module and had it login to my shell account which my cosysop crafted a nice menu for basic feature usage such as ftp/lynx/irc/etc. Users could then use my dialout feature into my shell and do what they were looking to do. Being somewhat out in the sticks and having a decent dial area coverage it in a sense allowed me to become my local region's first ISP of sorts. It was a hack but it worked and users were more than happy since for many even dialing up to AOL or Compuserve was a toll call then. -- If Confucius were alive today: "A computing device left in the OFF power state never crashes" ----- 73 de Brian N1URO IPv6 Certified SMTP: n1uro-at-n1uro.ampr.org
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- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Mark Tinka (Feb 16)
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- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Mark Tinka (Feb 16)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Mark Tinka (Feb 16)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that bzs (Feb 16)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Gene LeDuc (Feb 17)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. (Feb 17)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Clayton Zekelman (Feb 17)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that nanog08 (Feb 17)
- Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Gene LeDuc (Feb 17)
- Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Paul Ebersman (Feb 17)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that bzs (Feb 16)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Brian (Feb 17)
- Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that Ben Cannon (Feb 17)