Individual Network Berlin

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The Individual Network Berlin e. V. (IN-Berlin) is a non-commercial internet service provider for private individuals, associations and non-commercial groups. With its 30-year history, IN-Berlin is one of the oldest providers in Berlin . IN-Berlin participants can become members of the sponsoring association and actively participate in the democratic design and organization processes of the association and the operation of the technology.

IN-Berlin, like the other associations that later merged to form the Individual Network (IN), was one of the first institutions in Germany to provide affordable access to the Internet for private individuals and thus contributed significantly to its spread.

history

1989
1990
  • In the middle of the year, Berlin nodes sign a contract with UniDo ( EUnet ); the FU is supplied from there via UUCP.
  • IN-Berlin founding meeting in Café Hardenberg; about 30 computers take part in IN-Berlin.
  • The application for the domain berlin.de is rejected by the responsible DE-NIC . The in-berlin.de chosen instead was not objected to.
  • The Free University of Berlin applies for IP to EUnet.
1991
  • The central mail server of the FU Berlin is also one of the two central IN Berlin nodes.
  • The Individual Network (IN) is founded together with representatives from Hanse.DE Maus.DE and North.DE .
  • The IN becomes a customer of EUnet instead of the individual institutions that have previously participated.
1992
  • Foundation of the umbrella organization Individual Network e. V. in Oldenburg .
1993
  • IN-Berlin has around 95 participating computers.
1995
  • Foundation of the Individual Network Berlin e. V.
1996
  • IN-Berlin has 392 participants.
  • Paperless data carrier exchange for account movements is requested from Postbank .
1997
  • IN-Berlin has 633 participants.
  • 128 kBit joint user agreement with the DFN .
1998
  • approx. 575 participants.
  • Renting a club room at Kiautschoustraße 18.
  • 2 Mbit line to the FU with 128 kbit DFN joint user agreement and 2 Mbit to the B-Win .
  • Primary rate connection with 30 modem / ISDN dial-in ports in the club room.
1999
  • 840 participants, which cause about 120 GB of data traffic per month .
2000
  • The umbrella organization Individual Network e. V. dissolves. IN-Berlin has to take care of an alternative connection.
  • Purchase of an upstream bandwidth of 2 Mbit flat .
  • The first user domains are registered.
2001
2002
  • The association becomes a member of BCIX and moves to Lehrter Straße 53.
2003
2004
2009
  • Allocation of an IPv6 PI address block (/ 45).
2010
  • approx. 580 participants.
2011
  • Development of the electronics workshop eLAB in the club rooms.
  • WLAN network project KiezLAN.
2013
2015
2016
  • IN-Berlin becomes LIR at the responsible registry for IP addresses and AS numbers RIPE .
  • Establishment of the IP transit exchange point Community-IX for non-commercial projects, ideas and organizations.
2017
  • approx. 600 participants.
  • Provision of Let's Encrypt certificates for the participants' websites.
2018
  • The dial-in via modem and ISDN is switched off after no participant has used it for 12 months.

Club rooms

The IN-Berlin operates together with the Berlin Linux User Group e. V. (BeLUG) Club rooms in Lehrter Straße 53. A large number of groups from the free software , free content and Linux / Unix environment meet in the premises . B. also the Berlin Wikipedians. The IN-Berlin active meeting takes place there every week. The electronics workshop eLAB in the club rooms is open twice a week.

Technology / services

The association operates servers in several data centers and its club rooms. The IN-Berlin network is connected to the Internet via various sponsors from IP-Transit on the self-operated Community-IX and local peerings on BCIX , ECIX , DE-CIX and NL-IX. There is a possibility of access via DSL , but its importance is decreasing. There is also the option of dialing in via VPN . The participants of IN-Berlin receive static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, hosting , virtual servers and server housing on request .

Politics / engagement

IN-Berlin rejects any efforts aimed at the curtailment of civil rights and the restriction of informational self-determination. For this reason, the association supports groups such as B. the Chaos Computer Club , the working group for data retention or the Electronic Frontier Foundation . Due to its founding history, the dismantling of access barriers and the promotion of free infrastructures has always been a central motivation; He also works with the Freifunk initiative in Berlin. The sponsorship of the transmediale festival, which is hosted by IN-Berlin, deserves special mention for its commitment in the cultural sector .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Internet
  2. ↑ Official homepage of the Hanse e. V.
  3. ^ Community IX
  4. ↑ Official homepage of the Berlin Linux User Group e. V.
  5. ↑ Wikipedia: Berlin
  6. ↑ eLAB Makerspace
  7. ↑ transmediale supporter page

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 4 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 31 ″  E