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Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
From: bzs () theworld com
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:03:47 -0500
On January 24, 2020 at 16:59 list-nanog2 () dragon net (Paul Ebersman) wrote:
bzs> When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto bzs> the internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1 bzs> (1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up bzs> customers shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them. The World was also our (UUNET) Boston hub. And at that time, cross-country core backbone links were T1. We all thought the NSF T3 backbone was a government boon-doggle. :)
Those links were nailed up in the common closet not on 66 blocks but basically boards with bolts and quarter-sized thumb nuts, that was New England Telephone's (NET) demarc not our idea, it worked. One day working with a phone guy I jokingly remarked that's some old looking stuff, did Alexander Graham Bell put it in? He looked at me and said "possibly, Bell founded New England Telephone and would've helped on a job like this". The building was 1898. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
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