Also today

Happy birthday to me. My janeshouse.com domain is ten years old as of today. Back then, domains were free (if you remember those days). I had actually been on the Internet full-time for about a year at that point (I had a dedicated dial-up line and a router at home, along with a Class C), but since the mail servers at the old TIAC were notoriously unreliable I decided to register my own domain and set up a Linux-based mailserver.

Back then, you could just toss a relatively unsecured Unix-ish box on the Net and not be abused. I made it that way for a long time.

So tonight after the BNUG meeting, I'll have a beer in honor of my first .com domain. It's already paid for for another 4 years, which is as close to permanent as it gets!