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by h2odragon 1555 days ago
I couldn't quite dredge "Tymnet" back up, thanks.

AOL's seekrit superpower when they were "$CITYNAME Online" for several values of $CITY, as i was told, was that they ran on a big insurance company Stratus cluster as a slack time job and had access to both the compute time and the inbound X.25 for "free" for a while there.