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The real answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East
by mike_d 2y ago
The real answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East
- tptacek 2y agoWhoah, that brings me back.
- dboreham 2y agoThen the real real answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUNET
- tssva 2y agoI remember being awed by the size of the new data center at the Ashburn UUNET campus when we first occupied the campus. It was one of our new “NFL” sites. They were called that because the locations where we built the new large data centers matched up pretty well with cities with NFL teams. It now looks like a small garden shed in comparison to the newer data centers around it.
- nytesky 2y agoI thought for sure that was going to be AOL. Which I know doesn’t make sense, but they were huge in Loudoun.
- ikiris 2y agoYeah I was wondering where that part was. This article is missing the trees for the forrest. It’s like saying trade port hubs are there because of the weather and ignoring the major river they sat on.
- evanjrowley 2y agoAlthough it initially had no single central nexus, one eventually formed in the underground parking garage of an office building in Vienna, VA. I had a chance to see this ~10 years ago. A data center where a fair amount of "servers" were rows of desktop computers. The top of the building had a whole bunch of antennas and satellite dishes. I never knew the history until you posted this link. :)
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