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by rel 1075 days ago
I was just reading in "Losing the Signal"[1] about how Blackberry's relay service of the late 1990s was sometimes run on a sysadmins laptop just because they needed anything to help deal with the traffic they weren't equipped to deal with.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250096067/losingthesignal