>1995
>Be young IT guy at local state university
>Try to get the others in IT to register xSU.EDU
>"No anon, no one cares about that web stuff"
>"We're a Vax shop. Mainframes forever!"
>Ask them to at least register it for email
>We already do email on the Vax, it's fine.
>Try to explain the issue to the market department
>Blank stares from middle age women
>A school 1/10th our size on the other side of the country registers xSU.EDU
>Information Superhighway mania hits
>University president wants to know why we can't have xSU.EDU
>Vax guys and marketing go into panic mode, claim there was no way know this was coming
>School gets stuck with xSTATE.EDU
I left to work for a local ISP that years later got bought up by one of the big telecoms.