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16. Discuss how you came to own NationalNet?
As the story goes, I bought NatNet on my AMEX card.......
It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving of 1998 and I got a call from MikeFold asking me if my servers were working and I said they were. He asked me if I was hosted with National Internet and I said that I was not but that my servers were located in the same Data Center in Florida. He explained to me that National Internet was down to the world and that the rumor was that it was because they had not paid their providers invoices. Being the opportuniistic fuck that I am, I picked up the phone and called Tom at National Internet and he told me the whole story and even if he wanted to fedex them a check that because of the Holiday it would be Monday before they got it (some 5 days later) and by that time he would be completely out of business. So, about 45 minutes later I had purchased the company by putting all of his past due invoices on my AMEX card.
The real funny thing is that at that instant I was the proud new owner of a hosting company but I had never laid eyes on a server....I didn't even know what to think it would look like....now we have a whole Data Center full of them.
--T
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