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

Tue Jan 28 08:56:27 UTC 2020

Imagine the racket!

Is anyone connected with PPP over OC3? I'm just curious. I don't have that sort
of connection myself. I'm just on dumbass DOCSIS. My first connection was PPP
over the analogue PSTN.

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:53:26 -0700
Paul Ebersman <list-nanog2 at dragon.net> wrote:

> wsimpson> When we first designed PPP in the late '80s to replace SLIP
> wsimpson> and SLFP, it was expected to run at 300 bps and scale up, so
> wsimpson> the timeouts reflected that.  When I designed PPP over ISDN,
> wsimpson> added language to allow faster retransmission.
>
> SLIP and PPP were quite... robust. Some UCB folks managed to get SLIP
> over tin can and string. Two acoustic coupler 150b modems, 2 8oz V8 cans
> and waxed cotton thread.
>
> wsimpson> Like many of you, I started an ISP in 1994 with a 56 kbps
> wsimpson> uplink, and only 6 local customers....  The routers were in a
> wsimpson> bathroom over the garage.
>
> Our first CA hub was in the janitor's closet at a now defunct computer
> company. We initially had problems with the janitors unplugging the
> router on weekends to plug in their floor buffers.
>
> Ah, the good old days.
>
>

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