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Panix, in addition to what you may find at the website, is an
Internet Service Provider that I'm proud to be a part of. Not
just any ISP, Panix was the third place in the country where
you could get an internet account if you didn't work at a university
or for the government. Founded in 1989 by my older brother Alexis
and Jim Baumbach, panix.com began its life as a MacIIx, and a
hobby. Panix started charging its users in January 1991, added
a live internet connection that year (before then you couldn't
get a real-time internet connection, you had to be on the Usenet).
In 1992, Panix incorporated and got a 56k connection, and on
December 31 of that year, brought up the Sparc that all of Panix
soon was running on. In the past years, Panix, while becomming
relatively more obscure among a sea of fledgeling ISPs, has remained
one of the most cutting edge and influential entities evolving
the internet.
In other words, you may not have heard of Panix, but if you
haven't, it means you don't really know the internet. And you
can consider that a boast. |
Zeta Delta Xi is a local co-ed fraternity at Brown University,
of which I am a brother. Under the spiritual guidance of Wile
E. Coyote, we try to "have a good time, all the time",
treat everyone nice, and generally kick ass. Our main guidline
(and this is for those of you who read the above and conjure
up images of anal chugging and sheep fucking) is to not do anything
that goes against your morals, nature, religion, or good judgement...
well, that last one is open to interpretation sometimes, but
hopefully you get the picture. Believe me, I wouldn't, say, jack
off onto a cracker for a million bucks, let alone to join a brootherhood.
Ok, so a million dollars is a lot of money -- but I wouldn't
do it for less, ok? |
ShopWiki Is where I work
now. We crawl the entire web and index every product that's for sale on
it, and consumers can search for the best deal. |
