Re: New Years Eve

Christine Dabney wrote:

I am not going out...staying put here. We got over a foot or so of
snow on the ground...and I don't think it is melting any....

Wow. I haven't noticed a Netcom address in a dog's age. My first ISP
was Netcom, back when all they offered were shell accounts. When they
added a GUI front end the new accounts for that got the ix.netcom.com
subdomain. The shells were just netcom.com. :)

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NETCOM On-line Communication Services was an Internet Service Provider
established in 1988 by Bob Rieger, an information systems engineer for
Lockheed. Netcom started off in San Jose as a service to allow local
students to access university networks off-campus. The original accounts
were all dialup shell accounts on xenix 386 tandy pc's. Netcom soon
served 95% of the San Francisco Bay Area.

When first launched, Rieger was the only system administrator for the
company. Indeed, users would call him early in the morning to fix
internet access issues until he hired night staff. In 1992, the company
was incorporated.

As the World Wide Web became more popular, and users were looking for an
easy way to surf the Web, Netcom released a Windows 3.1 based program
called NetCruiser (originally it was to be called Internet Xpress, but
there were legal issues with calling it by that name, so it was changed
in the latter part of development). The NetCruiser service became very
popular and made Netcom one of the leading Internet Service Providers by
the mid 1990s.

In February 1995, computer security researcher Tsutomu Shimomura
monitored Netcom's network to track down an unknown attacker who
electronically broke into his computer. While monitoring their network,
he discovered the person who compromised his computer was Kevin
Mitnick....

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcom_(USA)


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