Lorry
BasicallyBenGBBlast from the past - The #O2 mobile phone shop in #Nuneaton has gone (presumably) and the old BT Cellnet fascia has been revealed. Makes sense of course. Cellnet became BT Cellnet in 1999, which then became O2 in 2002. So this sign has been hidden for over 20 years.
@Slash909uk @phlash Oh! I had forgotten I had these online. These are from when we built Genie Internet for Cellnet - Originally on the Telex floor (where Wireplay was), and then we had to move it up to the 5th or 6th onto my office floor, where the corporate networks hung out. This was the install record, sadly taken on a 1999 digital camera, sorry! I had a skim, there's nothing in there that would be considered classified these days.
The Celnet Genie service, which we designed as an "ISP in a box", was pretty amazing, really, especially for an essentially free ISP.
Also, it's one of those odd jobs where you end up as both lead applications architect, systems manager, server builder, removal dude, and underfloor cable rat and crimper in the same project. I feel jobs like that in big corporations tend not to exist any more.
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