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

Mon Jan 27 12:55:19 UTC 2020

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In ’93 I had a 2400bps modem and an $40/month ISP dialup account for 10 hours a month - my Mac IIci was zooming!

I quickly upgraded to 9600, then 14400, then 56k. I rocked the 56k till about 2003 - mind you all my email was over telnet/ssh/pine and websites in 2003 still worked somewhat well on 56k.

I tried getting ISDN in the late 90s, but at the time Bell Atlantic had horrible pricing for ISDN.

In those early days I remember setting up a download to start before bed so it could run all night, then wake up the morning to see my freshly downloaded 300KB file — assuming the phone line remained stable.

-John

> On Jan 24, 2020, at 6:26 PM, Ben Cannon <ben at 6by7.net> wrote:
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> I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud modems…   
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> in ’93 or so.  (I was a child, in Jr High…)
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> -Ben.
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> -Ben Cannon
> CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
> ben at 6by7.net <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>
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>> On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, bzs at theworld.com <mailto:bzs at theworld.com> wrote:
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>> On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aaron1 at gvtc.com <mailto: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:
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>> 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.
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>> * 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
>> 
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