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Set the time machine to October, 1995 and jump in. Hardware vendors were pushing 100VG-AnyLAN and token ring. NYNEX, US WEST, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Bell provided local phone service. Novell was proposing a "SuperNOS" to unify NetWare and Unix. Microsoft had just rolled out Windows 95 - which featured its answer to Netscape, something called Internet Explorer 1.0. That new addition to Windows would prove helpful to a couple of start-ups called Amazon.com and eBay were trying to convince people it was safe to buy things online.

October, 1995 was also when we launched Network World Fusion (now recast as NetworkWorld.com) - at N+I Atlanta (where Bay Networks had a booth). I used Windows (3.1) Notepad to assemble news stories for posting on the site (I FTP'ed them by hand).

It's amazing how far we've come. Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop, 10G backbones, fiber to the home, are all realities now (and today's cheap PCs can do a lot more than 1995's expensive servers). Here at Network World, we now use a sophisticated content management system to serve up everything from breaking news to RSS feeds and video Webcasts - from a server farm running not only proprietary Oracle databases but a variety of open-source applications.

Join us on a tour of the decade that was. And let us know where you were 10 years ago - and what you see coming up - in our 10-years forum .

-- Adam Gaffin, executive editor.

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