The Baltic Broadband team enjoyed the 2-day London Internet Exchange (LINX) conference last week.
We used Doc Brown’s time machine to go back to Oct 26th 1985, when the world was a very different place and the internet was very much in its infancy.
Passing through the space-time continuum, we enjoyed hearing from many of the “fathers of the internet” about the “good old days” and how the internet came about.
Having been a LINX member for many years, participating in peering and being part of the Internet community within the UK, we’ve seen much change in the continued re-engineering of the internet….time has gone so fast…LINX is now 30 years old!
We started providing internet within the Liverpool Region in 1994, the same year that LINX started and in 2001 we built our first data centre in Southport that “sat” on the Hibernia Transatlantic Submarine Cable in order to bring it into the Liverpool City Region.
In 2017, we brought the Submarine cable into the Baltic Triangle, landing it at IX Liverpool on land donated by Baltic Creative CIC.
Internet Exchanges are key digital infrastructure hubs whereby ISP’s, content networks (Netflix, Facebook, Tik Tok etc) connect to each other to create the internet that we know today.
I founded IX Liverpool back in 2016 to help improve the digital connectivity within the region, and are proud to see how it has helped lift the region up since, and …it continues to expand and go forward (because it cannot find reverse!)
Here’s to the next 30 years of internet growth.
