NOTE: Live streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/effaustin! March 9, 2010. 7pm-9pm, Independence Brewing. Austin was a hotbed of pioneering Internet activity in the early 1990s, and one event that put us on the Internet map was the March 1, 1990 Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games, an Austin company that produced role playing games with science…

Google just announced that they plan on rolling out a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet access service in a number of trial locations. To give some perspective, a 1Gbps Internet access service would be over 65 times faster than Time Warner Cable’s fastest Road Runner tier available in Austin and over 165 times faster than AT&T’s…

Ever wondered how these IntarTubes work to to build up the IntarWebzNet thingy? Next time you run into someone who thinks of the Internet like that, you might want to point them to this video produced by TheEuroIX.  It’s simple, clear, only has a slight bias to support their business model, and makes really good points…