The Little Garden / TLGnet Inc.

"Dwight K. Elvey" wrote: "The Little Garden" was one of the first (perhaps the first) "co-op" ISP's. The were certainly a trailblazer. It was formed by a bunch of people who desperately wanted internet connectivity, before such thing was widely available. At that time there were not a lot of rules and certainly no books or papers on the subject. You could count the people who really knew what was going on two hands and you could find them all at any IETF meeting. It wasn't even clear for a long time if commercial internet (i.e. selling bandwidth) was allowed. And owning things, like network numbers or domain names wasn't even a concideration. needless to say all that got sorted out but in the early days there was just a lot of prairie grass and few guys on horseback. -brad