The incredible story of ALTEON

Don't you hate it when you try to build a NIC and switch, but accidentally build a load balancer instead?

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00:00 — Aces wild
00:33 — 1995
06:03 — Fateful design choices
14:20 — An opportunity
21:17 — IPO
23:29 — AceDirector2
29:01 — Outro

#networking #y2k #web

Huge thanks to:

bert for the smooth "offline":
Watch: https://lofigirl.com/releases/offline/
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/5M7Fen...

S N U G for the wonderful "Purple Skies":
Watch:    • Видео  
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/2nivV1...

Above music provided by Lofi Girl.

References:

Hayes, John. (2024). Interview conducted by Serial Port.
Buying Windows 95 on Launch day. Vampire Robot.    • Buying Windows 95 on Launch Day  
Sony PlayStation - Pre-Launch promotion video (1995). fenarinarsa.    • Sony PlayStation - Pre-Launch promoti...  
Hepler, J. A. (1993). Network Jam. Computerworld, April 26 1990.
Telecineguy (2017). Serial HIPPI fibre optic cable. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Rautakorpi, P. (2013). Die shot of MIPS R4000 microprocessor on wafer. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Interop 97. (1997). Open Network, September 1997. http://motobayashi.net/interop/1997la...
HYDE (2023), Gapminder (2022), UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of people using the Internet” [dataset]. International Telecommunication Union (via World Bank), “World Development Indicators”. Various sources, “Population” [original data]. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nu...
Cloudflare Load Balancing: Product Demo. Cloudflare.    • Cloudflare Load Balancing: Product Demo  
How do I connect a public-facing load balancer to EC2 instances that have private IP addresses?. Amazon Web Services.    • How do I connect a public-facing load...  
cole8888 (2020). Broadcom BCM5708 (PNG, No Dust, White Balanced). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...