Back in 1994 the town dialup ISP started doing business; by 1996 I was working there and getting indoctrinated. I can't remember the name of the terminal server

Back in 1994 the town dialup ISP started doing business; by 1996 I was working there and getting indoctrinated. I can't remember the name of the terminal servers anymore.. we had about 30 of them, 12 POTS lines on each, so we could have say 360 people online. At a 10 people to 1 port oversubscription ratio, people were getting busy signals at peak hours, but eventually got on ... ... as the months went on, people figured out how to use keep-alive programs and our idle-user scripts started to fail. Busy signals got worse and worse, and of course, we lost customers. When I think of the coffee shops, and people buying a cup of coffee, or a bagel, every now and then, I'm sure it must feel the same to the shop owners. And in our modern world of seemingly infinite resources, I get that trying to remember dial up modems run by a few poor dudes in a literal garage is only going to garner the same sillouettes of billionaires out to dominate the economy; and so does the sleepy cafe owner trying to make rent manifest as John Buckingham Starbucks himself. But this middle aged geezer has a nettled solidarity for these small business owners, who are without any apparent tool to save their business without deliberately summoning the modern marvel of public shaming on social media. I could never run a business.