Post by account_disabled on Jan 10, 2024 0:19:11 GMT -5
But let's go back to 1994. One evening, my roommate showed up at the house with a 14,400 bps modem the size of the lid of a shoe box. He asked me if I knew the number of any BBS, and I remembered that where I worked there was a guy who told me he was a former member of a big BBS (such as Galactica). The guy, among other things, was my "video game supplier" who downloaded at night who knows how and from who knows where. Galactica BBS The next day I got the number, and in the evening we made our first connection to Galactica. I was thunderstruck. From hobby to work In 1994 Galactica was a multi-user BBS with a few dozen input telephone lines, which also offered a connection (in terminal emulation) to the I
nternet. Getting on the line in the evening hours wasn't easy at all:call back in bursts, and as Malaysia Phone Number List soon as we hooked up to the carrier we never let go. My days had radically transformed: in the morning at work in the office, from around 6pm onwards connected to the Internet, to understand and study all its smallest implications. Within a few weeks I understood that this would be my future (job). I thought: “I have to bring the Internet where it doesn't exist” . In Milan it wasn't a problem to connect, and Internet Providers were popping up like mushrooms (2 names above all Video On Line (VOL) and Italia On Line (IOL)), but in the provinces things were different: apart from the usual 4 nerds, no one had e
ver heard of BBSs, modems, the Internet and the like. I took courage and called the Galactica people on the phone, asking for an appointment and telling them "I would like to open an Internet node north of Varese" . We arranged a meeting in their office in via Turati: it was the beginning of 1995. I met the founders, Podestà and Tomè, 2 boys roughly my age: the first more marketing-commercial, the second more technical. They told me that they were evaluating the opening of franchising points, and therefore we could talk about it: I signed the contract practically blindly. Did you make money with the Internet? Yeah, for sure… Setting up an Internet node,
nternet. Getting on the line in the evening hours wasn't easy at all:call back in bursts, and as Malaysia Phone Number List soon as we hooked up to the carrier we never let go. My days had radically transformed: in the morning at work in the office, from around 6pm onwards connected to the Internet, to understand and study all its smallest implications. Within a few weeks I understood that this would be my future (job). I thought: “I have to bring the Internet where it doesn't exist” . In Milan it wasn't a problem to connect, and Internet Providers were popping up like mushrooms (2 names above all Video On Line (VOL) and Italia On Line (IOL)), but in the provinces things were different: apart from the usual 4 nerds, no one had e
ver heard of BBSs, modems, the Internet and the like. I took courage and called the Galactica people on the phone, asking for an appointment and telling them "I would like to open an Internet node north of Varese" . We arranged a meeting in their office in via Turati: it was the beginning of 1995. I met the founders, Podestà and Tomè, 2 boys roughly my age: the first more marketing-commercial, the second more technical. They told me that they were evaluating the opening of franchising points, and therefore we could talk about it: I signed the contract practically blindly. Did you make money with the Internet? Yeah, for sure… Setting up an Internet node,