13 Jan
2005
13 Jan
'05
11:16 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
...
religious aspects to argue it. My experience was, all
of the
smallish end sites, and tiny, small and medium ISPs, developers,
etc all ran unix or KA9Q on DOS. San Francisco and Silicon Valley,
1992 - 1996. Never ran across a linux during that time, and I used
Remember 'the little garden'? That was my inspiration. Paul Vixie was
behind it I think. As I recall it was in La Honda, not far from where I
went to summer camp as a kid. If I've got it wrong please correct me.
As I recall (dimly) 'the little garden' was the first home grown ISP I
ran into. Something like a T1 and 10 modems in a closet; They ran their
own DNS, mail & dialin. I think they had actually end-to-end
connactivity for most users, however (i.e. it wasn't just shell
accounts, it was real routing to the home).
The was before I had set foot in MAE-east and the concept was mind
expanding.
(at the time I had a 56k and 2 ISDN lines into my condo and the phone
guys thought I was some kind of nut :-) this was '92-93 I think)
-brad