A bit of background on Hwy16 Internet and it’s origins. My first experience with the Internet was volunteering to help with the Nechako Access Network Organization (NANO) Internet society. (see below) Along with John Rowlandson credit should go to the technical team of Dave Irwin, Kevin Scott, and myself who managed to compile this new flangled Linux thing (Slackware 2.2, followed by Redhat 4.1) and make it all work. Every time you changed a driver you had to recompile the entire kernel. (If anyone is up to a challenge, here is a link to Slackware 2.2 http://www.it.freebsd.org/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-2.2.0/ – have fun)
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