On 5/12/2011 4:03 PM, George Herbert wrote: > .... > Large end-user companies generally multihomed by that time, and you > generally did that by BGP4 at the time (post-1994), and before that > BGP3, and before that EGP, and before that... well, there was little > "commercial ISPness" other than NSFNet connectivity and the regional > networks back then so multihoming was somewhat of a moot point. > > Thank you again, UUNet/Alternet and PSI! >
The management of the large end-user company I worked for could barely spell Internet at the beginning of 1995. A few connections to the Internet existed and the lab where I worked was experimenting with a socks-server. There was a large intranet allocated from the company's class A space.