Startup in a rented house in a residential neighborhood
“Router” was an old PC running Linux with a few network cards, with no case, with a household fan pointed at it to keep it cool
Loose ethernet cables and little hubs everywhere
Every PC was its own thing and some people were turbo nerds. I had my Linux machine with its vertical monitor; there were many Windows machines, a couple Macs, servers and 2 scrounged Sun workstations also running Linux
No DHCP, pick your own IP and tell the IT guy, which was me, and we’ll set you up. I had a little list in my notebook.