[mixdup]

Wait, they did ATM to the desktop?

What year was that? I could see a college/university network department dominated by old school telecom guys deciding to use ATM to connect buildings, but it's kind of insane to think anyone at any point in time thought it was reasonable to push to individual endpoints

[pimlottc]

Yep. This was in the mid-nineties. The fiber was already present from the initial effort to wire the campus starting in 1998 [0]. The move to ATM happened later and was in used for 6-7 years before they went to gigabit ethernet [1] (check the comments for more info on the ATM years).

0: https://www.networkworld.com/article/899168/lan-wan-universi...

1: https://science.slashdot.org/story/04/06/02/0038223/fiber-to...

[pimlottc]

Oops, I meant the fiber was laid starting in 1988