In September 1997, a friend invited me to work at Openlink, which at the time was the Internet reference in Brazil, and had the largest Internet link in Brazil, with just 1MB direct to Global One.
It was located at the Rio de Janeiro Teleport, where the Internet practically began in Brazil, and they were expanding rapidly, and they hired several students from PUC-RIO at once, and I was one of them.
Since it was still very early in the process, we learned almost everything there, studying the material we were given on our own and with the help of a few more experienced people. It was there that I got to know HTML in depth and was able to perfect my first website at Geocities, created in the PUC-RIO IT lab in the limited time of 30 minutes per day.
My main duties were mainly General Internet Support, including all installation and customer support, such as dialers, e-mail, SMTP, FTP, LPs (Private Lines), etc. Since it was the best internet provider at the time, many famous and renowned people were Openlink customers, and I used to personally serve many of them, from Monique Evans to Paulo Betti.
This is where I developed my best DOOM map to play with my coworkers.
I worked there for a little over a year, when I left at the end of 1998 to go work at IRB. Soon after, Openlink was bought by PSI.Net.