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Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
From: Paul Ebersman <list-nanog2 () dragon net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:53:26 -0700
wsimpson> When we first designed PPP in the late '80s to replace SLIP wsimpson> and SLFP, it was expected to run at 300 bps and scale up, so wsimpson> the timeouts reflected that. When I designed PPP over ISDN, wsimpson> added language to allow faster retransmission. SLIP and PPP were quite... robust. Some UCB folks managed to get SLIP over tin can and string. Two acoustic coupler 150b modems, 2 8oz V8 cans and waxed cotton thread. wsimpson> Like many of you, I started an ISP in 1994 with a 56 kbps wsimpson> uplink, and only 6 local customers.... The routers were in a wsimpson> bathroom over the garage. Our first CA hub was in the janitor's closet at a now defunct computer company. We initially had problems with the janitors unplugging the router on weekends to plug in their floor buffers. Ah, the good old days.
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