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SteveDallas · 04-12-2005, 08:21 PM

I was never a Netaxs customer (I had my own internet service from work), but I was keeping an eye on them closely, primarily via the occasional second- or third-hand comment from UT and others on The Cellar who had dealings with them. My first internet experience was in 1986, and the concept that any person (who wasn't affiliated with a university, like me, or high-tech company) could just buy intenet service, and that it was being done not by the usual suspects like Compuserve or Delphi, but by (literally!) a couple guys in a basement, was radical in a way that's hard to remember today.

04-12-2005, 08:21 PM	#7
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	I was never a Netaxs customer (I had my own internet service from work), but I was keeping an eye on them closely, primarily via the occasional second- or third-hand comment from UT and others on The Cellar who had dealings with them. My first internet experience was in 1986, and the concept that any person (who wasn't affiliated with a university, like me, or high-tech company) could just buy intenet service, and that it was being done not by the usual suspects like Compuserve or Delphi, but by (literally!) a couple guys in a basement, was radical in a way that's hard to remember today.