Re: Thanks for everything
Now you've made me think of UUCP as well, and the joys of wrangling apps like CCMail to dynorod message queues to unblock them. And then a few shudders remembering Compuserve, CIX, and DDCMP.
Those were the days.
I never worked for Demon, but had fun working with them. Personally, I think they pioneered more than just affordable Internet, but also key components like the LINX, Nominet, IWF that helped keep regulators away. Plus provided some fun, like the Doom Patrol. Woe unto mere mortals who dared trying to flood ping network engineers sitting on most of the UK's core routing infrastructure. Or the time Demon involuntarily relocated some of it's kit to a lower floor. I think UKNOF had a presentation on their original architecture. There's a perception that an ISP was racks of modems. Which I guess was kinda true, except for the lack of decent rack mountable modems. So until things like the Ascend Max & TNT came along, one had to improvise.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
