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

[Derek Traynor <drekalots () gmail com>]

I had a USR 2400 baud external modem. Local ISP offered PPP service as
well. We also had a few BBS's in the area of which I ran two of them.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:31 AM Daniel Seagraves <
dseagrav () humancapitaldev com> 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…