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The nexus of a bunch of those lines is an AT&T facility[0] in downtown Los Angeles. Fun to imagine the chain of connections emanating from that spot. [0]: htt
by kristjansson 4y ago
The nexus of a bunch of those lines is an AT&T facility[0] in downtown Los Angeles. Fun to imagine the chain of connections emanating from that spot.
[0]: https://goo.gl/maps/LnvpKX2r7V11NzYa9 https://goo.gl/maps/LnvpKX2r7V11NzYa9
- daveevad 4y ago0.5 miles to 1 Wilshire Boulevard as well. It continues to fascinate me how the digital and physical worlds collide in some way.
- kristjansson 4y agoI’d love to know more of the blow-by-blow history of the internet’s built environment. I feel like the story must be something like “long lines terminated at telephone exchanges, internet exchanges naturally located near telephone exchanges, and colos like One Wilshire located near internet exchanges?
- CPLX 4y agoAnother fun example of this is 111 8th Avenue. It’s all Google territory now but it was a pretty interesting free for all of various tech adjacent things in the late 90s dotcom era.