The first company where I worked as a “systems administrator” had no Internet connectivity at all when I started. By the time I left, I had installed an analog phone line which was shared amongst several users with modems for dial-up service. The connectivity options in 1995 were limited, and very expensive. Our company operated […]
Tag: modems
Remote Access
As a part of my job at Cisco I’ve been looking into Zscaler and their offerings. It started me thinking back to the early days of remote access, and I figured it would make a good topic for Netstalgia. I wrote in the past about how bulletin board systems (BBSs) work, and in another article […]
How not to do Internet Connectivity
My first IT job was at a small company in Novato, California, that designed and built museum exhibits. At the time most companies either designed the exhibits or built them, but ours was the only one that did both. You could separate the services, and just do one or the other, but our end-to-end model […]