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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>-Aaron<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ben Cannon [mailto:ben@6by7.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2020 5:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> bzs@theworld.com<br><b>Cc:</b> Aaron Gould; NANOG Operators' Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…)<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Ben.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>-Ben Cannon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net">ben@6by7.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><img border=0 width=733 height=269 id="_x0034_5481CB4-09D8-4C89-A4CB-4D5717F7FF6E" src="cid:image001.png@01D5D3CE.DE5A20F0"></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, <a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com">bzs@theworld.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 <a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com">aaron1@gvtc.com</a> (Aaron Gould) wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Point of History:<br><br>When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto the<br>internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1<br>(1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for the time. Dial-up customers<br>shared a handful of 2400bps modems, we still have them.<br><br>* It was also fanned out of our office to a handful of Boston-area<br>customers who had 56kbps or 9600bps leased lines, not many.<br><br>-- <br> -Barry Shein<br><br>Software Tool & Die | <a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com">bzs@TheWorld.com</a> | <a href="http://www.theworld.com">http://www.TheWorld.com</a><br>Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD<br>The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>