[PLUG-TALK] Rain-net, the internet in Oregon in 1991

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Thu Apr 4 21:31:20 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:14:39PM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > On Apr 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> > 
> > In 1991, some of us joined together with Randy Bush, Steve
> > Neighorn, and Jeff Beadles to form Rain-net, perhaps the
> > first connection to the internet from Oregon. 
>  
> I believe you're leaving Alan Battie (sp? on both) out of your history.  Though he may have been
> a housemate of Steve or Jeff. Alan's garage was a pop with racks of modems.  It provided my 
> initial internet connectivity when I came to Portland. 
 
Ah, found it.  Alan Batie, host of the agora node. 
Eventually he spun up rdrop.com having been beaten to the raindrop.com registration by someone else.

rdrop.com is still a Portland area ISP. 

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