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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<link href="vlc.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<title>VLC History</title>
</head>
<body>
<main id="page_content">
<h1>The Virtual Light Company History</h1>
<p>The Virtual Light Company started in the early 1990s as a vehicle for
Justin Couch to effectively get on the internet with a formal presence. In
the early days of the internet in Australia, getting a domain name and IP
address space required you have a registered business. VLC is part of that.
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<p>Getting online in around 1994 with firstly a large 128K ISDN connection
to a local ISP (that I provided much technical support to) I registered and
gained access to this domain name as well as my own class C address space. Both
have maintained a continuous presence ever since despite several relocations
around the world (didn't that play fun with GEO-IP!).</p>
<p>
<h2>Where did the Name Come From?</h2>
<p>
As a passionate reader, particularly of all things Sci-Fi, and my early interest
in Virtual Reality, I spent a lot of time with William Gibson books. After the
Neuromancer series, he wrote a book named
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Light">Virtual Light</a>. This
and my extensive work in VRML, lead to me chosing the name based on the book
title and love of virtual reality.
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