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First ‘CDN’

In 1996 Dutch telecom operator introduced ‘Het Net’. It was a dialup internet. But it wasn’t connected to the Internet.

A typical old school ‘walled garden’ idea. That of course failed and Het Net became a regular, even successful access provider.

Anyway, we were hired to produce a webcast for the Ministry of International Affairs. And this webcast had to be available both on the regular internet and on Het Net.

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First webcast

In 1994 I produced my first webcast for a metal concert.

In the year before, we already published near-realtime video clips of concerts online. But we wanted it to be live. Just because.

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