{"id":605,"date":"2022-01-28T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/?p=605"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:25:00","slug":"start-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/2022\/01\/28\/start-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was researching some accounts today and while tracing Verizon to Yahoo! (recently spun off) to AOL&#8230;just found out that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AOL\">AOL<\/a> can trace its roots back to PlayNET, a company I worked for while at RPI in their Incubator. I had no idea I was so close to the beginning of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, I found a link to this story detailing the connection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-digital-antiquarian wp-block-embed-the-digital-antiquarian\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lPmalNjwmi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filfre.net\/2017\/11\/a-net-before-the-web-part-5-the-pony\/\">A Net Before the Web, Part 5: The Pony<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A Net Before the Web, Part 5: The Pony&#8221; &#8212; The Digital Antiquarian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filfre.net\/2017\/11\/a-net-before-the-web-part-5-the-pony\/embed\/#?secret=SYw0PUTPqw#?secret=lPmalNjwmi\" data-secret=\"lPmalNjwmi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was researching some accounts today and while tracing Verizon to Yahoo! (recently spun off) to AOL&#8230;just found out that AOL can trace its roots back to PlayNET, a company I worked for while at RPI in their Incubator. I had no idea I was so close to the beginning of the internet. From there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}