12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
1:50 p.m.
At 09:24 PM 1/12/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Some realized they could SELL internet
access to other people. In fact, I was an investor in a pretty early ISP
in the Sacramento area that was started by a very young friend of mine,
and is still thriving today. This begat the Mom&Pop ISP boom.
To be fair, there were plenty of "become an Internet provider in 90 days"
mom & pop ISPs who also used turn-key BSD-based boxes. If anything
was driving people towards Unix, it was TCP/IP and Unix's tools
that were standard for using the Internet. Chicken and egg.
- John