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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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Octoth0rpe ◴[10 Aug 22 13:45 UTC] No.32411808[source]▶
A couple of fun facts about this guy:

His little ISP is AS267, which is a SHOCKINGLY low number. That's like.. the ISP equiv of a 4 digit slashdot id, or owning something like sodapop.com.

He's also one of the authors of RFC 5575, which is a pretty big deal in the DDoS world.

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hammock ◴[10 Aug 22 15:42 UTC] No.32413877[source]▶
What is an ASN and what advantage is there to have a low number?
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renewiltord ◴[10 Aug 22 18:54 UTC] No.32416793[source]▶
It's an NFT representing early participation on the Internet.
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1. carlhjerpe ◴[10 Aug 22 22:36 UTC] No.32419314[source]▶
Hardly non-fungible but yes, it means you've been on the internet for long.