We had a chat at work about the good old days where ISPs were local startups.

I was with Magma, he was with Primus. We were trying to find the other ones that were out there ! Help us remember Lemmy!

  • jehreg@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I was a partner at Resudox. I was also one of the original UUCP nodes in the city. I helped Mac Brown start his ISP. I was a client of Fonorola when it became iStar.

    While I was at Resudox, we sent out a large amount of emails to Freenet users advertising our services, a spam run that I still apologize for to this day.

    Before all of this, I was the owner of The QuBE BBS, supporting UUCP and Fidonet via Welmat (hi Russel!)

    The QuBE started with one HST modem and one dedicated phone line.

    Ottawa had quite the BBS scene at the time.

  • John@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    hmmm…I was on Cyberus? Can’t remember if Magma bought Cyberus or vice versa. For a while. Then… dsl.ca…mixed in with Bell dialup… everyone jumped to “Rogers Wave” for a while when cable was king.

    Looking forward to the day when wholesale competition comes to Bell’s GPON Fibe®.