I had a cable modem in SE Florida in 2001. Adelphia TV.
In Amsterdam it was UPC, though that might have been their name later on.
In Amsterdam it was UPC, though that might have been their name later on.
I recall when it was first being rolled out, it was some sort of weird hybrid service that did phone-up/cable-down. Not sure how long that nonsense lasted, because they weren't doing that anymore when my parents finally got it.
I still remember what a pain it was to get that 1-way modem working on linux. I had to print the documentation out from Windows, and then reboot. On the other hand, learning how to get that driver[1] to compile and loaded as a kernel module was very educational.
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/sb...