From dream to reality..

Thank you for visiting Brainwave's online home. Brainwave Computer Services was founded in 1989 as a FREE bulletin board system, and has since grown into Delmarva's premier online services company. Back in 1989, 2400bps was state of the art, and our entire operation was run on a single 386 based server, with two incoming lines (busy signals were part of life then).

Every month, we added more and more content, including news, weather, online games, email, chat rooms, & discussion forums. By 1990, we had joined the national Fidonet backbone, and doubled to four lines. In 1992, we began carrying Usenet newsgroups (our first step into today's Internet). And experimented with a graphical user interface, instead of the primitive color text and ANSI Graphics that we all had grown accustomed to. That did not go over well... no wanted to use anything that resembled America On-Line, which back then was $4.00/hr!.

By 1994, we realized the world was changing, and that a national "internet" would be the next big thing, so our founder took down the BBS, and got a real job to make the money to finance the project (tough thing for a teenager to do!). In late 1994, bwave.com was born, and early in 1995 we secured a dedicated (28.8k!) connection. 1995/1996 were busy years, between going to school, working a full-time (44-48hr.) job, and then staying up 'til 3 in the morning learning all about "the Internet" and what it would take to become an "Internet Service Provider".

That dream finally became a reality in November of 1996, when Brainwave first started offering dialup PPP connections. At that time we had just a 768k frame relay circuit & 4 33.6k dialup ports. Our "network" consisted of a Pentium 120 that handled remote access & primary DNS, and a 5x86/133 that handled mail, secondary DNS & all web pages (our news was ported to another provider).

We have steadily grown over the three years, and currently are home for over 1000 dialup customers. As of October 1999, we have a dual-T1 connection to the Internet Backbone, and 202 dialup ports spread throughout Delaware and Maryland. We wish to thank all of our customers for their continued support, we couldn't have done it without you.

Sincerely,