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


From: Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:16:40 -0700

On 1/27/2020 8:29 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Jan 24, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net> wrote:

I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud modems…
Hayes Smartmodem here, 1200 baud. Local BBS offered PPP service.

When I got my first sysadmin job, $work had a T1 and it felt like more speed than was fair…

.

1988 -- $work had 56 Kbps to BBN (I think).  Router was a Cisco AGS :-)


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