akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

bzs at theworld.com bzs at theworld.com
Sat Jan 25 01:03:47 UTC 2020


On January 24, 2020 at 16:59 list-nanog2 at 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.

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