I still remembered the HKIGS handbook (less
than 20 pages) teaching us how to send email, using gopher and other services in a
Unix shell environment. Thanks for all
the great services of HKIGS in those years.
This is Warren Kwok's Internet note pad, electronic diary, online rubbish journal, whatever you might name it ! It is an archive of my random thoughts in a chronological order. I am not good at reporting boring things and change them to lively. If you find this blog boring, sorry that it is your problem.
2012/03/27
Find "Aaron Cheung" in Facebook, the 1st person to bring commercial Internet services to Hong Kong
I suddenly found an old friend whose name is "Aaron Cheung" in Facebook. He was the first person to bring commercial Internet services to Hong Kong. I met him in around 1993. At that time, I was a system
operator of Fidonet and my node was 488 in Hong Kong. During an informal gathering, he told me that he was setting up the first 64k leased line from HK to US west
coast to run the first commercial Internet service in HK, the the Hong Kong Internet Gateway Service (HKIGS). Later on, I was amongst the first 10
customers of HKIGS. I did not subscribe
to HKIGS service in around 1996 since
then I did not hear anything about him and HKIGS.
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