[GTALUG] colocation downtown. Shared rack, non-profit price. Toronto Free-Net.

[James Knott]

On 9/2/20 9:31 PM, Digiital aka David via talk wrote:
> Hold a second. .. Toronto freenet still exists? ;) Dang.  
> Freenets(cleveland, ottawa, Toronto )were one of the first systems I 
> used.in <http://used.in> the early 90s

I also remember Freenet, though I wasn't a customer.  IIRC, they had a 
POP at 151 Front St. W., when I worked there, over 25 years ago. That 
would also appear to be where that shared rack is located.

My first ISP was io.org.  Back then I had a static IP over SLIP dial 
up.  I seem to recall they had some sort of not quite kosher connection 
with UoT, as the Internet hadn't quite become commercial yet.  Back in 
those days, we had stuff like WAIS, gopher, archie, etc., as browsers 
weren't yet popular.