Streaming Festival - Sponsor xs4all

xs4all

Xs4all sponsored the first and second edition of the festival. Thanks to their generous support and expertise, the festival was able to ensure fast, high quality video streams over the internet. Following is a brief history of xs4all, but there's a lot more. So, click the link below to their website if you're interested or want to read more on the #1 internet provider in the Netherlands xs4all.

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On behalf of xs4all :

• Nic Limper
• Mieke van Heesewijk

In 1989 the first edition of HackTic appeared. HackTic was a magazine for everyone who wanted to do more with technology than just consume. For example, HackTic had articles on hacking, free telephone calls, viruses, magnetic cards and the Dutch PTT. Rop Gonggrijp and Paul Jongsma were two of the editors of HackTic. Rop soon became nationally and internationally known. As a result of his articles he was loved, hated and even feared. For more information, see the Hack-Tic Magazine Archive (1989-1994)

Utopia

In 1992 Rop and Paul met Felipe Rodriquez. Felipe was the operator of the Utopia bulletin board (BBS). Utopia was an online meeting place for Hackers, where tricks, tips and files could be exchanged. In those days speeds were still 300 to 1200 bps. The internet was still in its infancy. There were no providers and access to the internet was only possible through the universities. That same year Rop, Paul and Felipe came into contact with Matthew Lewis. He was working as a system administrator at the University of Amsterdam and enabled Rop, Paul and Felipe to operate an account on a system at the University of Amsterdam. He also set up an e-mail connection to Utopia. People dialling into Utopia could now send e-mail worldwide. The first step had been taken.

Internet in the Netherlands

As a result of a hacking incident Matthew was forced to close the accounts at the University of Amsterdam in 1992. Then the idea was born of setting up an independent internet service. In America the first Internet Service Providers (ISPs) had been up and running for some time. In Britain the Demon ISP was proving very successful. In the Netherlands only NLnet was active at the time. NLnet only provided internet access for companies and not for private individuals because, according to NLnet, there would not be any market for private individuals. That would prove to be an enormous error....
Read further on their website » www.xs4all.nl

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