The rise and fall of the 90's telecom bubble

Aside from me pinning the start of the bubble closer to 1992 when commercial activity was allowed, and M&A for ISPs at insane valuations per subscriber by 1995 (I had co-founded an ISP in 93, but try as I might I cannot remember if it peaked at 50 or 60x1 by 1996 (?) and crashed by 97 (?)), this wa

Re: [NNagain] The rise and fall of the 90's telecom bubble

I started my TCP life (moving from broadcast engineering) back in about '94ish. I was in Yakima, WA and took care of the 9 working modems for Wolfe.net after being on connected.com and teleport.com (Portland, OR). My girlfriend (later my wife), who I met online via the unix talk command got hire