Internet Alaska was the largest and best ISP in AnchorageAlaska. Since then things have changed.
Poor IA, we hardly knew thee...
As Bruce once said, "The management sucks, but the sysadmins rock."
All of my teenaged geek friends worshipped it as our god, for a time. Their employees' business cards had a "Handle:" field. -- AndrewWoods
Damn, I guess you must have lived in Anchorage then! I got there just after they started giving out the cool business cards (though I do still have an original "Conquer The World" Tshirt ... though it seem somewhat ironic these days) some called it the beginning of the end, whether that was my fault or not I'm not yet sure. Regardless I ran a lot of Internet Alaska's shit for a long time. Mmmmm, TuesdayNightMailOutages ... all because "someone" was too proud to admit they didn't know how to fix the problem. I'd like some chocolate sauce with that please ... -- Adam.
Yeah, i was there for the whole "only game in town -> pissed it all away". Well, sort of. A lot of us used lynx on SLED. My friends all signed up a lot earlier than I did, i'm guessing like pre internet explorer days, and by the time i had a computer with a modem, I picked another provider, which is kind of weird. This is a little embarrassing, but I actually got busted for a Curfew Violation right next to IA's dumpster. Coincidence? Perhaps. --AndrewWoods
I still remember getting my "We gotta let you go" letter from Jalone and Coryell while in a 8x10 concrete cell in Cook Inlet Pre-Trial for getting busted with an illegal immigrant from Mexico for heroin possession and distribution. Oh yeah, there was a sawed-off shotgun too. Those were the days. -- MorganLikely