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IIRC when the Internet actually formed there were 7 places that you needed to be at in order to have settlement-free peering. Looking at various not-so-organize

IIRC when the Internet actually formed there were 7 places that you needed to be at in order to have settlement-free peering. Looking at various not-so-organized Wikipedia articles it appears that I am not recalling the earliest days. I think all of these still exist; MAE-WEST is still at 55 South Market in San Jose, for example. At one point blekko moved into a brand new datacenter in Santa Clara which had only limited fiber connectivity. @ChuckMcM twisted their arm for a free interconnect to MAE-WEST so that we could move over our existing inexpensive transit and interconnect contracts. Everyone's in MAE-WEST.

jlgaddis 10y ago
I was just a pre/early teen when most of this was happening but I can remember reading about it and being amazed, after becoming interested after reading _The Cuckoo's Egg_. Today, I'm a network engineer at an ISP. Go figure. > MAE-WEST is still at 55 South Market in San Jose, for example. Yep, and fiber runs from there to 611 Folsom and into Room 641A. (Edit: It probably wasn't quite that early in the Internet's life but it was still very young.)