They started with an enlighting science project: the honeypot project. Then they launched commercial with CloudFlare. I remember, I was under the first 500 with two domains to which they gifted a t-shirt with all the domains written in small font. I should have thought about this marketing budget and their vision back then, not just now. This will resolve some time in the future for sure.
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Nice! Early Cloudflare user here too. I think it’s been like 13yrs or more now. Back when some of the execs would respond to support tickets lol. Now, it’s an abysmal experience if you need help when something breaks (which is thankfully not very often). Even with Enterprise account the support is shit and your account manager doesn’t help much. But it’s still the best “serverless” and CDN platform imo.
I enjoy that you reply to me, nostr:npub16jdfqgazrkapk0yrqm9rdxlnys7ck39c7zmdzxtxqlmmpxg04r0sd733sv. I don't remember much from this time, concerning web. I just needed DNS for a handful or less domains.
It feels the same like thinking about VoIP and remembering Roger Wilco. Haha.
In general and not exclusive to cloudflare I tend to think this is true, back in ye olde internette dayse many companies would personally answer support tickets
Then it became fuck that, this doesn’t scale, more VC money
Maybe it's the other way around. The VC money needed to penetrate all the good things because of inflation and the problems Bitcoin solves. Against such a flood, nobody had a chance to withstand it. Bitcoin fixes this; it's a lifeboat for all the support-ticket-answering CEOs, CTOs, and other three-letter-title corporate‑thinking professionals today.