Yep, in Vienna. And that meant the area got great data infrastructure etc early on, and so other businesses that needed that were drawn to the area, and on and on.
well Tysons and even pre-AOL there was MAE-EAST here... in the garage of my prev office actually
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Reply · Mar 18, 2024@responsiblparty first internet exchange point, i used to work in one of the Vienna office buildings that housed it in early days…Reply · Jun 18, 2022@Lucifersmith420 Lol yeah my office in Tysons was one of the original locations of MAE-East https://pipiwiki.com/wiki/MAE-EastReply · Sep 26, 2023@zymbi0te tbf when they started building the internet, Loudoun was the middle of nowhere...Reply · Feb 10, 2023https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/10/data-centers-northern-virginia-internet/