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by icedchai 4178 days ago
I remember those same times (early-to-mid 90's), worked at a few ISPs, even helped start one, and while it's good nostalgia, I'd never want to go back.

Those Sun Servers? They took 4 or 5 minutes to boot up and were dog slow.

T1 connections? Amazing for the time, laughable by today's standards, when the typical broadband connection is 20x faster.

Web development back then? Writing nasty CGI scripts - in Perl if you were lucky - or C if you weren't.

No thanks.