Re:So... Genuity is the "good" guy? (Score 1)

Hmm, this is a little long-winded... The Genuity mentioned in the article about UUNet isn't the Genuity that exists today. About four years ago Genuity was this company headquarted in Arizona who did primarily web hosting and was trying desparately (and failing) to get into the backbone business. Through a series of acquisitions of a protracted period of time Genuity disappeared. When I came on the scene back in Aug. of 1999 I was working for GTE Internetworking which was what came from GTE buying/merging with BBN Planet. However, last year when Verizon was created they had to spin off the majority of the internet infrastructure and that was created and called Genuity. Why did they chose that name? Who knows. Why not call it BBN Planet? Anyway, today's Genuity has nothing to do with the old Genuity other than the name. What fun.