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There was a very real barrier to building tech companies. We couldn't listen to Spotify at work during the time people seriously called Berlin the "SV of Europe
by f6v 3mo ago
There was a very real barrier to building tech companies. We couldn't listen to Spotify at work during the time people seriously called Berlin the "SV of Europe" (our office was in the neighborhood called "SV Backyard"). Why? We didn't have enough bandwidth, and the wait time for fiber was measured in years.
- petesergeant 3mo agoI remember 2008 very differently, was this a very localized Berlin problem?
- ben_w 3mo agoFrom anecdotes around me now I live in Berlin, I believe it extended at least into Brandenburg. Even in 2019, some coworkers were complaining that the best offer from their landline company (in one of the small villages just outside the Berlin city limits) was dialup. Berlin's reputation post reunification has been "poor but sexy".
- f6v 3mo agoNah, I’m talking 2016. I have no idea about commercial internet outside Berlin. But my residential connection in suburbs of Aachen in 2015 was copper.