Summary:
Today we continue my efforts to preserve the history of the ISP industry. Today it feels like the Internet is simply all around us all the time, but there are amazing entrepreneurial stories about how that crucial infrastructure was laid. Today we talk to Sonic founder Dane Jasper, who can not only give us the history of the industry, but the present day as well, as Sonic is still a thriving and important independent ISP.
[…] Before TCP/IP a babel of different networking protocols made it so computers from different lands could not talk to each other. Shocking, isn’t it? Relive those barbaric times in this excellent History of DECnet with Dave Oran podcast episode. Crave more history? Can you imagine a time when you would call someone up because they were cussing on the internet? That and more in The History of the ISP Industry With Sonic’s Dane Jasper. […]