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It's interesting to compare that photo to the photo in the article about Rusty n Edie's BBS that was posted here recently: https://web.archive.org/web/200511022

• icedchai 5y ago
  I used to work at a local ISP in the mid 90's. It was definitely more Rusty-n-Edie's style. I remember going into one of the POPs (point-of-presence, dialup locations.) It was a in a small rented office in an office park, not a data center or colo. There were about 100 analog modems on metal shelving racks, each with its own phone line, serial cable, and power cable. These were regular, consumer-style modems. There was no power management, so we had power strips connected two or three layers deep. There was also no air conditioning, and it could be hot-as-hell in the summer. Some of the modem cases were warped, slightly melted and discolored due to the heat. Nothing special was done wth the phone lines, so there was also a river of RJ-11 cables coming out of the wall. It was a hazard to even go behind one of the racks, since both the power and phone line situation were incredibly chaotic.