Last week xs4all internet really has shut down and two long term “buddies” suddenly have a completely different life
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/04
For posterity these two tweets from xs4all unixbeheer dudes:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jan-Pieter Cornet on Twitter: “My last day working for XS4ALL… Did some fixes on the few servers that will remain running, wiped a lot of data, shut the door behind me, then had a nice drink with colleagues and friends. Strange feeling that I won’t go back there, but excited to be looking for new things…”
- [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “Today is a strange day for me. It’s my last day at XS4ALL. All customers are now at KPN and over the last week we’ve shut everything down. It has been quite a ride. Taking some time off and then on to new things.”
- [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “
$ ping xs4all ping: cannot resolve xs4all: Unknown host“
For me it is a strange feeling, but for Cor, Jan-Pieter and some others that also stayed until the very last it is even stranger: after so many years (or decades) at xs4all their life suddenly is very different.
I wish them well and hopefully be able to meet up every now and then.
As soon as Freedom Internet supports more than one phone number per subscription, I will migrate three fiber lines to them. For now those will stay with KPN.
What remains are memories of an era, for instance:
- [Wayback/Archive] Xs4all (1993-2019): Het einde van een geliefd pionier | Het Parool (via [Wayback/Archive] Wilma Haan on Twitter: “Geboren op een flatje in de Bijlmer, als 25-jarige gestorven door de marketingkronkels van de KPN-organisatie: #XS4ALL (1993-2019) (via @parool)”)
- [Wayback/Archive] Collectiebeschrijving XS4ALL-homepages | Zenodo
- [Wayback/Archive] XS4ALLmoetBlijven.nl on Twitter: “Cor Bosman, de laatste van het groepje van de oprichters van XS4ALL die er nog werkte, verlaat XS4ALL vandaag. End of an era. So long, and thanks for all the fish… 💛”
- Blog posts like:
- Bye, bye ADSL… (where I brought cake to the xs4all main office thanking the crew)
- 15 years of xs4all internet provider membership
- Nostalgie: KPN zet inbelplatform uit en laat Xs4all inbelverkeer afhandelen – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
- Na migratie van XS4ALL naar KPN zijn al je telefoon-doorschakelingen weg: hoe dit te herstellen (spoiler: de on-line aanwijzingen kloppen niet)
Now I need to re-learn alternatives for 194.109.6.66 and 194.109.9.99 and others from [Wayback/Archive] Overzicht serverinstellingen.
–jeroen
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