If anyone wonders what it was like to operate 'an ISP' in the 1900s, this is pretty accurate for most small-time operations. Extremely limited bandwidth (because T1s and E1s were just too expensive: I remember paying 25,000 Dutch Guilders [at least US$ 8K at the time] for a 2Mb/s connection spanning just about 80Km), operators realizing this is not what they want to do with the rest of their lives, ultimately selling out to bigger parties.
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