What's Shakin'?
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4/25/06 |
Phone Circuit Issues
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This afternoon at 2PM, GlobalNAPs (our telephone provider) was
disconnected from the main telephone system by Verizon, leaving
BerkshireNet and many other ISPs in Massachusetts without phone service
for dial-up customers. BerkshireNet was provided no prior notice that
this might happen, and we were caught unprepared. As of 4PM we have made
arrangements with another telephone company to take over our telephone
service, however this will take a couple of days to complete the
transaction. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we had
no warning that this was about to occur.
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| 2/27/02 |
BerkshireNet will be closed today for memorial services for Jason Hatch. |
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Thank you for your understanding at this difficult time for us. |
| 2/20/02 |
BerkshireNet loses a Team-member.
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BerkshireNet lost a dear friend today. BerkshireNet's co-creator and system administrator, Jason Allen Hatch, will be remembered by us all as a key portion of BerkshireNet's internal workings and friend. While the loss was a shock to us all, he would want us to face the day with the determination to press forward. |
| 1/3/2002 | BerkshireNet welcomes a new team member |
| Please help us welcome Doreen Coones to the accounting department. We're pleased to have her as a new team member. |
| 1/1/2002 | Upgrades made to system |
| Starting the year off with a bang, BerkshireNet has made some upgrades to its equipment and software. Included in the upgrades are FrontPage 2002, an Apache upgrade, PHP availability, and MySQL database functions. We anticipate a great year ahead of us. |
| 8/29/2001 | BerkshireNet Celebrates 6 years! |
| Once again BerkshireNet celebrates another anniversary of serving the Berkshires. |
| 8/29/2000 | BerkshireNet celebrates our Fifth Anniversary |
| BerkshireNet, founded August 28th 1995 celebrates the fifth anniversary of accepting our first customer! We thank all of our customers for many happy years of serving the Berkshires and hope the Berkshires will continue to invite us into their homes for many years to come! |
| 8/1/2000 | BerkshireNet is awarded the coveted "Best of the Berkshires"! |
| For the second year in a row, BerkshireNet has been awarded the Best of the Berkshires award. The Berkshire Eaglepolls its subscribers annually for the best services and businesses in the Berkshires, and their subscribers have chosen us as the best Internet Service Provider in the county! Thanks! |
| 12/28/1999 | Announcing the New Cyberian Cafe! |
| As mentioned in our announcement of October 31, 1999 the CyberCafe concept is not dead in the Berkshires. BerkshireNet has created the new Cyberian Cafe from the ashes of the old Hard Drive Cafe at 132 Fenn Street in Beautiful Downtown Pittsfield. The Cyberian Cafe is a great place to stop in for a byte to eat, a cup of hot Java and an afternoon of browsing the web! |
| 10/31/1999 | BerkshireNet closes Hard Drive Cafe |
| Sadly, after4 years, the Hard Drive Cafe in the Allendale section of Pittsfield is closed. This is, however, not the end of the CyberCafe concept in the Berkshires! Scheduled to open in December is the Cyberian Cafe, located in the Howard Building in downtown Pittsfield - watch for the official announcement! |
| 9/30/1999 | BerkshireNet teams up with Signio to provide online Credit Card Processing. |
| Signio,Inc., delivers a fast, highly scalable and reliable Internet payment platform that enables companies to authorize, process, and manage multiple payment types, multi-currency options and different payment schemes online. Signio interfaces seamlessly with the ShopSite e-commerce system. |
| 9/3/1999 | BerkshireNet teams up with OpenMarket to Provide E-Commerce Solution |
| BerkshireNet,Inc. today signed a distributorship agreement with OpenMarket of Burlington, MA to provide BerkshireNet subscribers with the ShopSiteshopping cart system. This system provides not just a shopping cart, but also innovative merchandising tools, comprehensive e-commerce capabilities, and other industry-leading tools that grow as your business does. |
| 7/29/1999 | BerkshireNet to move Hard Drive Cafe to Howard Building |
| BerkshireNet announces that the Hard Drive Cafe will move from the Allendale Shopping center to 132 Fenn St. in downtown Pittsfield. |
| 6/24/1999 | BerkshireNet wins "Best of the Berkshires" |
| BerkshireNet wins the Berkshire Eagle's coveted reader's poll "Best of the Berkshires" as the best Internet Service Provider in Berkshire County, MA. |
| 3/17/1999 | BerkshireWeb joins BerkshireNet at new offices |
| BerkshireWeb has joined us at our new offices at 126 Fenn St. in the Howard Building - for a one stop web design and hosting experience. Check what theBerkshire Eagle had to say. |
| 2/3/1999 | BerkshireNet moves offices |
| BerkshireNet signed a lease today for the former offices of Berkshire Bank and Trust in the "Howard Building" in downtown Pittsfield, MA. The Howard Building, which is owned by Shamrock Nominee Trust, has been vacant since 1988, when Berkshire Bank and Trust left. |
| 1/15/1999 | BerkshireNet announces entry into New Hampshire. |
| New Hampshire residents may now enjoy the services of BerkshireNet in the same manner residents of Massachusetts currently do. All our New Hampshire dialup locations should be operational by the end of the month. Please checkout current dialup numbers at http://www.berkshire.net/dialup/. |
| 10/15/1998 | BerkshireNet purchases Hard Drive Cafe |
| BerkshireNet is proud to announce the purchase of the Hard Drive Cafe in the Allendale section of Pittsfield. The Hard Drive Cafe is a Cybercafe formerly owned by Edward and Barbara Bourdon of Pittsfield. Eddie will remain at the Hard Drive Cafe as manager. Along with coffee and sandwiches, the Hard Drive Cafe also builds and sells computers and supplies, holds training classes and hosts gaming tournaments. |
| 8/14/1998 | BerkshireNet announces access throughout Massachusetts |
| BerkshireNet is proud to announces that we have expanded our service area to the entire state of Massachusetts. Please check out current dialup numbers athttp://www.berkshire.net/dialup/. |
| 5/11/1998 | BerkshireNet teams up with Planet Direct to provide big content. |
| | BerkshireNet has teamed up with Planet Direct to offer localized Web content to its customers. BerkshireNet's PlanetDirect offers personalized news and up to date information on your personal and professional interests, stock quotes, a 5 day weather forecast for our area, chat areas, kids areas, and the best of what the Web has to offer. Our arrangement with Planet Direct makes BerkshireNet the first in the area to offer content of this caliber to our customers without any fees or software required. Once again, BerkshireNet is a first! |
| 4/15/1998 | BerkshireNet adds UltraSPARC Computing. |
| | We've replaced our Sun Sparc servers with Sun UltraSPARC 1 & 2 servers. Added were a dual CPU UltraSPARC 2 with 1/2 a Gigabyte of RAM for our Web server (nicknamed Gemini), And two (2) UltraSPARC 170E servers with 256 Megs and 128 Megs of RAM for our Shell and Mail server, nicknamed Titan and Nexus respectively. With their blazingly fast 64bit CPUs, 200Mbps ethernet connections and their fast/wide SCSI, they make BerkshireNet the first in the area to offer Enterprise Computing to its customers. What's more, we're the only ISP in the region to dedicate a server of this magnitude to our UNIX Shell users. All machines run Solaris 2.6, a 64 bit, muti-threaded, multiprocessor capable Operating System. |
| 4/1/1998 | Welcome to the New BerkshireNet. |
| | BerkshireNet changes its act and puts on a whole new look and feel. We've redesigned our Web Site, incorporated new services to our offerings, hired additional support staff and completely redesigned our internal network. As a result, we've created an entirely New BerkshireNet, with all the features of the old, and more! |
