Eddie Espinoza
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes, you wouldn't believe it walking by.
And it has a very interesting story to how we shape the Internet today.
Let's go inside, take a look.
It is a historical building in the historical society of Palo Alto.
Over the decades, those voices changed to bits and bytes, but the need to connect never changed.
Every single fiber cable you see here is a different customer, internet service provider, cloud provider, enterprise company.
You know, people think the internet's just in the air floating, but it requires physical connections.
So we can go downstairs and we'll look at the early era of the internet.
This is the basement.
So in the 1995 era, it was the home of AltaVista.
It was one of the first major search engines in the 90s.
So they're all office spaces down here, as you notice.
They saw that in order to make the internet grow, this is what needed to be happening.