yeah I remember the old ph-isp list. I was young and highly impressionable back then and quickly became a mouthpiece of my mentor at the time. Looking back now, he's of course from the school when PLDT was a monopoly.Back with the Telcos then the stance was to prevent the Internet from getting in, or if ever, choke it down, as was the case with Sequelnet, which eventually became Infocom.
These days when I google my own name, the darned heated arguments between Manny Amador and myself still pop up. About how the Local Exchange service is subsidized by the IGF and NLD services and our arguments about costing models. Tsk, I was outclassed back then, I didn't have a business education yet nor a grasp of costing models. The "subsidies" should not have been treated as such but rather as cost contributions to the LEC service being a necessary access point to the other two.
Migz Paraz was truly a character of the time. Geek extraordinaire and budding drummer as well. We were organizing jams pa nga if I recall. He inspired me to install my first Slackware Linux on my spare 386 computer and study it. Lack of application had me drop the geekenterprise and repose back to the windoze.
Oh well. Memories. I kinda lost my mailing lists when my email addresses got shut down and only found philmusic back in 2005. Funny, after asking on the philmusic mailing list first.
Sala-salabat ano ? Sabay sabay kasi nangyayari.
