When Dane and Scott started sonic.net (Sonoma Interconnect) in 1994 on Dane’s back porch with 8 phone lines, a couple of “servers” and a 56kbps leased line to the Internet, nobody could have imagined what Sonic would become. More than three decades later we’re providing 10 gigabit service that’s more than 595,000 times faster than the 16.8 kbps modems we were founded on over a fiber optic network that we own. But today is truly the end of an era: 32 years later we’re shutting down all our Analog and ISDN dial-up services on April 30th, 2026.
Thanks to everyone who ever listened to the modems screech, watched images slowly load, hung out in IRC, read their email on bolt, broke out of Gopher jails and became our friends in the local sonic.* news groups over the years.
– Kelsey, on behalf of Dane, Scott, Eli, Nathan and everyone else at Sonic today.