A little history: I got an /24 in the early 90s, it was how you got on the internet back then, you sent an email to a well known email address and they sent you

A little history: I got an /24 in the early 90s, it was how you got on the internet back then, you sent an email to a well known email address and they sent you back a class C, no money changed hands, you couldn't get anything smaller. Also almost no one had firewalls, your subnet was open to the world. Last month I got an out of the blue offer for the class C I registered for a startup I worked for about the same time ~3k I'm still the technical contact, the company is long gone, a drawer in a filing cabinet in a lawyer's repository somewhere, it's probably the company's largest asset now