> I think "attotrenching" is what I called just running cables into people's windows and not burying them. Behold, MSU dorm LAN in early 2000s. https://medium.

> I think "attotrenching" is what I called just running cables into people's windows and not burying them. Behold, MSU dorm LAN in early 2000s. https://medium.com/@pv.safronov/moscow-state-university-network-built-by-students-211539855cf9 https://medium.com/@pv.safronov/moscow-state-university-netw... Partial “topology” shot: https://chronicles.igmsu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/topology_1.gif https://chronicles.igmsu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/topo... Home LANs and early ISPs were built with the same equipment by the same kind of enthusiasts. Typical commieblocks have enough place for cable shafts inside, though. Then the building roofs would get connected (with any kind of cable having any properties you could find) in the same grassroot manner. All that free libertarian enterprise, and now, after a number of tech upgrades, mergers, and so on, you can get gigabit for ten bucks. I get it's not that suitable for suburbian installations, but the idea is that it all starts small and ugly. That's why your cable corporations are never ever going to allow even a tiny bit of alternative to happen, heh.