Even farther back.
I was a senior at Hoopeston Area High School, my boss was installing wiring for CITES (then CCSO), the guy who I replaced in my current position was the “original nettech”.
A year and a half later, 18 Oct 1995, here were the counts of active URHNet connections:

The latest tally of total (active) URHnet connections, as counted
from the bootp tables:
Allen 101
CRH 386 (six contiguous Champaign halls)
FAR 168
ISR 301
LAR 20
PAR 131
Triad 12
TVD 50
TOTAL 1,169
At this time last year, the total was 391: an increase of 299%

Last fall, we probably passed that total within a few hours of opening.

Every once in a great while, you must say thank you to people like Tim Skirvin for archiving those things that later on turn out to be quite funny. Thank you for being a never ending pack rat, Tim.

(This won’t be funny to anyone outside Housing, without some explanation, but that’s fine with me.)

I love simple SQL.

select COUNT(id) as Count,FROM_UNIXTIME(MIN(oob_time_sec)) as MIN,FROM_UNIXTIME(MAX(oob_time_sec)) as MAX,INET_NTOA(ip_saddr), tcp_dport, udp_dport,icmp_type from ulog where FROM_UNIXTIME(oob_time_sec) > DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 28 DAY) group by ip_saddr,tcp_dport,udp_dport order by ip_saddr;

It’s finals week here at the University of Illinois, so campus is packed with parents hauling home the equivalent of 1/2 of one dorm room’s worth of detritus.

Moms trying to fit 3 cu. ft. fridges in the trunks of Impalas, dads sweating like hogs carrying bags of shoes and vomit stained t-shirts as their daughters stumble along, groggy either from the mass of bar-scars on the backs of their hands or finals, no one is sure. And, since the weather is so nice, the finer features of working on a college campus abound.

We’ve been taking back returned mini-hubs (and mini-switches) since Monday. 1740 items have been returned so far, but there’s still another 5400 out there. (We count the hub and the power supply as seperate items, so that’s about 2700 pairs to come in yet.) Computer labs close at 5 pm today, a few places are open for hub return tomorrow, commencement is on Sunday.

Another year gone by. Has it really been 7 years since I graduated from here?