I love the symmetric ~10 gig speed test to put it into perspective for how far we’ve come….also the 3 ms ping result. Ain’t it great
-Aaron From: Ben Cannon [mailto:b...@6by7.net] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 5:27 PM To: b...@theworld.com Cc: Aaron Gould; NANOG Operators' Group Subject: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…) -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aar...@gvtc.com (Aaron Gould) wrote: Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol Point of History: When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1 (1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them. * It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | b...@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*
