So now that the confusion about SVLUG closing has been removed and nothing serious is going on, this reminds me of exciting times loooong ago, when Marc Andrees

So now that the confusion about SVLUG closing has been removed and nothing serious is going on, this reminds me of exciting times loooong ago, when Marc Andreessen spoke at SVLUG and then Netscape had buses waiting outside to drive everyone (who didn't want to drive themselves) to San Francisco's "Sound Factory" for the Netscape (open source) release party [0]. I also remember Linus Torvalds as speaker. At one of the meetings I won a SCSI card - which I gifted to the "student network" of my (German) university, a network created by and administered by students in 1994, connecting several thousand students in dormitories to the 155 Mbit ATM backbone of the university. I don't remember a time without high-speed Internet all the way to my room, it's always been there... Since I moved out of the Bay Area in 2004 I don't have any more recent memories :) [0] http://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/details.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/details.html