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2026-10-24 01:45 UTC
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@jredlund@social.linux.pizza 2026-10-24 02:29
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org I was on GEnie. It was kind of cool, but it was full of libertarians and people who believed that government should not build bridges, because that was socialism, but private entities should build competing toll bridges, because that was capitalism. So it went. It was interesting. That was mostly on the Jerry Pournelle science fiction board, where you could get gang flamed for disagreeing even a little. I had a lot of trouble cancelling my subscription, even after the service was mostly dead, until one day I happened to have my call answered by an intelligent person who knew how to do it. I am forever thankful to her.
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@TheTeka@tsundere.love 2026-10-24 03:28
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org Impressive :koronebless:
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@mvilain@sfba.social 2026-10-24 04:01
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org Some years later after Genie moved out of their datacenter in Mountain View, Cisco bought the building for like $3M. They got a bargain because there were three literal house-sized diesel generators and fuel tanks to run them 24x7. By the time I was given the tour of the site which became the local WebEx datacenter, it was 98% all Cisco equipment with their servers, routers, power distribution, and wiring. The only non-Cisco equipment were very large Network Appliance boxes to provide storage to all the machines. I'd been in IT for over 20 years and this was the first time I'd been in a data center of that size and scope. I can only imagine what Google's custom-built multi-story racks and servers are like. Previously I'd worked in Oracle's Cloud storage unit which spanned datacenters and installations around the globe. That was the largest install I ever worked on. Upgrades were fun, for varyingly challenging values of fun.