[ILUG] News eXpo 2004 Doc Searls Barry Flanagan

[John McCormac]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, kevin lyda wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:15:08PM +0000, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> > Barry as we all know is the man who provided Ireland with nationwide
> > cheap dial up access starting from a couple of dial up lines in a
> > bedroom in Galway to the organisation that IOL.ie became.
> > On a side note he had IOL.com which annoyed Italy on line Israel on Line
> > no end.
>
> so wait, galway had net access first?!?!?!?!

Over ten years ago as well. :) It used to be Galway Online BBS initially I
think. :) The days when 2400 Baud was considered standard and 9600 Baud
was fast.

Regards...jmcc