I was already assembling boot with floppy 386/486 networks by Lantastic + W3.11. Once again, Dante
helped me explaining almost everything: TCP / IP, cabling, etc..
mid 90's, routers were virtually unknown, or extremely expensive. Dante taught me then next at the brand new lab consisting of machines with Windows 95.
Thus was born the first Internet Open Laboratory of the province of Mendoza. The only problem was Windows Proxar not stand more than 5 machines, and came down. NT also stank, and the consulting engineer who assured me that it was impossible for a PC act of router. And of course, had to format the "server" every two months. proxies Another problem was that the mIRC, ICQ, MSN incipient next could not be more than one machine. Had to make several fortunes to port 1080, all quite poor.
By June of that year, traveled with Paul to London, in the 1-1 to the dollar. Paul had planned the trip numbers and as if to conquer Europe.
One day, leaving the British Museum, we find a strange cafe ... With computers in, connected to Internet! we did not know we were in Cyberia,
the first cybercafe in the world ...
We knew only handle the Netscape and mIRC, we stayed crossed watching the other customers who came to the mainframes via telnet European universities.
Since then, whenever we could, we gave us a tour of the place. Sheltered from the cold, aided by a cappuccino big as a bowler hat, chateabamos to Argentina, and Junab sideways to other foreign customers, who were connected to university networks through consoles strange green letters. Were the mythical Unix. In cyberspace, also had a mini mainframe that made them of router!.
even had enough literature on the subject. Counting pathetically money, I contacted
Dante
from London.
- Che, here they use a thing called Sanex, Linux, something like that is it worth buying a book about it? - Yes! Metele that was good, I'll tell you when you arrive!
- Will it help to make a router?
- What if, God damn! Brings you everything you find!
Dante, who knew about the (now legendary)
Juanjo, I also said we could put Linux as a server of Web pages and other things that did not understand much.
the way back, I installed a linuxbox school on an old PC with Redhat 6, install via network by simple pot of a floppy ... incredible. When finished the installation, I removed the monitor and keyboard.
- What if I have to restart ..?
- Relax, "I replied, smiling - is not going to happen.
Three years passed. Not only is the buzzword never fell. My Windows machines were formatted over and over again, I sometimes did backup, other times not enough and lost data, and so was the thing. But the internet service was excellent. Being nateando had no problems with ports rare. It was one of the best times of my life, except for the formatting of Win98 almost daily.
One day, I was cursing because the format My own Windows, had lost some MySQL database and PHP files with Apache. Dante once again I visit, and told me with laughter ... Why not put these services in the linuxbox?
- can also do that ..?
Windows That day I sent to hell.
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