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[John Foust]

At 09:24 PM 1/12/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> Some realized they could SELL internet
>access to other people.  In fact, I was an investor in a pretty early ISP
>in the Sacramento area that was started by a very young friend of mine,
>and is still thriving today.  This begat the Mom&Pop ISP boom. 

To be fair, there were plenty of "become an Internet provider in 90 days"
mom & pop ISPs who also used turn-key BSD-based boxes.  If anything
was driving people towards Unix, it was TCP/IP and Unix's tools
that were standard for using the Internet.  Chicken and egg.

- John