akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Fri Jan 24 23:21:45 UTC 2020

On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aaron1 at 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.

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