8 Jun
2006
8 Jun
'06
11:35 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Brad Parker once stated:
You'll laugh, but I ran a 56k internet connection for a few years out of
my house using a sparc station 1 running sun os. I ran the sparc serial
port (8530 based) directly into a CSU/DSU. It worked fine. I think I
hacked a sync driver I got from someone else (Phil Budne? does that sound
right Phil?)
The first ISP I worked for, in late 1993, had a 56k leased line to the
Internet.
And the first webhosting company I worked for (late 1994, maybe 1995?) was
in my friend's dining room with a 28.8kbps modem to the Internet [1].
-spc (And even though we started out at the same time as Hiway
Technologies, under similar circumstances, we didn't get bought out
$150million 8-(
[1] Okay, so the actual server was co-located at an ISP 8-)