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February 15th 19, 03:38 PM
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The internet is no longer any fun
"Ant" wrote in message
... nospam wrote: In article , Ken Blake wrote: And don't forget Usenet, which started in 1979. If you were fortunate to have a connection. Here you had to be on university and have contacts with enough power to allow you time on a computer with that connection. I did not hear of Internet till the 90's, and it took me about a decade to get access at home. I got my first e-mail address in 1991 or 92. E-mail was the only access I had to the Internet then; it was through a BBS. I didn't have web access in my home until around 1994. newbie. Same for me, but later like in 1995 with TIA and SLiRP via my university's HP-UX shell account. Before that, it was BBSes, Prodigy, and my friend's university shell account (didn't know how to do that web stuff yet). All on dial-up, baby. :P Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!! -- Buffalo 
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February 15th 19, 08:42 PM
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The internet is no longer any fun
Buffalo wrote:
"Ant" wrote in message ... nospam wrote: In article , Ken Blake wrote: And don't forget Usenet, which started in 1979. If you were fortunate to have a connection. Here you had to be on university and have contacts with enough power to allow you time on a computer with that connection. I did not hear of Internet till the 90's, and it took me about a decade to get access at home. I got my first e-mail address in 1991 or 92. E-mail was the only access I had to the Internet then; it was through a BBS. I didn't have web access in my home until around 1994. newbie. Same for me, but later like in 1995 with TIA and SLiRP via my university's HP-UX shell account. Before that, it was BBSes, Prodigy, and my friend's university shell account (didn't know how to do that web stuff yet). All on dial-up, baby. :P Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!! Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore. -- Return of The Worker Ant? Happy Chinese New Year (Earth Pig)! Oink! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )
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February 16th 19, 12:54 AM
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The internet is no longer any fun
"Ant" wrote in message
... Buffalo wrote: "Ant" wrote in message ... nospam wrote: In article , Ken Blake wrote: And don't forget Usenet, which started in 1979. If you were fortunate to have a connection. Here you had to be on university and have contacts with enough power to allow you time on a computer with that connection. I did not hear of Internet till the 90's, and it took me about a decade to get access at home. I got my first e-mail address in 1991 or 92. E-mail was the only access I had to the Internet then; it was through a BBS. I didn't have web access in my home until around 1994. newbie. Same for me, but later like in 1995 with TIA and SLiRP via my university's HP-UX shell account. Before that, it was BBSes, Prodigy, and my friend's university shell account (didn't know how to do that web stuff yet). All on dial-up, baby. :P Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!! Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore. Nice link. Thanks, -- Buffalo
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February 16th 19, 08:54 PM
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Buffalo wrote:
Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore. Nice link. Thanks, You're welcome.  -- Return of The Worker Ant? Happy Chinese New Year (Earth Pig)! Oink! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )
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February 17th 19, 03:33 PM
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On 15/02/2019 21:42, Ant wrote:
Buffalo wrote: "Ant" wrote in message ... nospam wrote: In article , Ken Blake wrote: And don't forget Usenet, which started in 1979. If you were fortunate to have a connection. Here you had to be on university and have contacts with enough power to allow you time on a computer with that connection. I did not hear of Internet till the 90's, and it took me about a decade to get access at home. I got my first e-mail address in 1991 or 92. E-mail was the only access I had to the Internet then; it was through a BBS. I didn't have web access in my home until around 1994. newbie. Same for me, but later like in 1995 with TIA and SLiRP via my university's HP-UX shell account. Before that, it was BBSes, Prodigy, and my friend's university shell account (didn't know how to do that web stuff yet). All on dial-up, baby. :P Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!! Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore. Wow that's pretty impressive this past and current stuff!!! Congratulations!!! Best Regards @lex
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#6
February 17th 19, 03:50 PM
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On 2/17/19 10:33 AM, Alex Beauroy wrote:
snip Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore. Wow that's pretty impressive this past and current stuff!!! Congratulations!!! Best Regards @lex +1 Great reading, fun to walk though time.
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February 17th 19, 11:04 PM
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The internet is no longer any fun
Big Al wrote:
On 2/17/19 10:33 AM, Alex Beauroy wrote: snip Hehe. http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my past and current stuff. Yeah, these days I use ancient stuff like my decade old PCs. I care not for the newer stuff anymore. Wow that's pretty impressive this past and current stuff!!! Congratulations!!! Best Regards @lex +1 Great reading, fun to walk though time. Yep. Fun to record what I had, share, and reread it.  -- Quote of the Week: "As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man..." --Mark Twain Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )
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#8
February 16th 19, 03:30 AM
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On 2019-02-15, Buffalo wrote:
Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!! I never had a crank phone but did have a party line for a while. Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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#9
February 16th 19, 04:27 AM
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The internet is no longer any fun
On 2/15/2019 8:30 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere. Used to carry one of those things around the country with me. I was amazed that virtually every place I stopped there was a local AOL dial-up number available...
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#10
February 16th 19, 05:08 AM
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The internet is no longer any fun
In article , 123456789
wrote: Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere. Used to carry one of those things around the country with me. I was amazed that virtually every place I stopped there was a local AOL dial-up number available... by the time aol was a thing, 300 baud modems were long obsolete.
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#11
February 16th 19, 06:11 AM
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On 2/15/2019 10:08 PM, nospam wrote:
123456789 wrote: On 2/15/2019 8:30 PM, Roger Blake wrote: Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere. Used to carry one of those things around the country with me. I was amazed that virtually every place I stopped there was a local AOL dial-up number available... by the time aol was a thing, 300 baud modems were long obsolete. When I said I carried one of those things around the country, I meant the acoustic coupler. And they were very much in use during the early AOL days when many hotel phones were hard wired with no RJ11 sockets available.
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#12
February 16th 19, 02:13 PM
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The internet is no longer any fun
In article , 123456789
wrote: Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere. Used to carry one of those things around the country with me. I was amazed that virtually every place I stopped there was a local AOL dial-up number available... by the time aol was a thing, 300 baud modems were long obsolete. When I said I carried one of those things around the country, I meant the acoustic coupler. it sounded like you meant 300 baud modems. And they were very much in use during the early AOL days when many hotel phones were hard wired with no RJ11 sockets available. i used to bring a screwdriver and an rj11 jack. never a problem.
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#13
February 16th 19, 05:28 PM
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The internet is no longer any fun
Roger Blake wrote:
On 2019-02-15, Buffalo wrote: Wow, you had dial-up and not a crank phone? Nice to have the latest stuff!! I never had a crank phone but did have a party line for a while. We had a party line when I was 8 years old or so. A LONG time ago. Still have my old 300-baud acoustic coupler stored in a closet somewhere. I never had a modem that would go only 300 baud. I did have one that could do either 300 or 1200 baud. When I first started working, the terminals in our office were IBM 3270s. They were basically selectric typewriters, that communicated at the IBM-standard speed of 127.5 cpm. When we got a few Omron CRTs that could work at 300 cpm, that was a BIG deal. This is the early 1970s. -- Tim Slattery tim at risingdove dot com
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#14
February 16th 19, 08:23 PM
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On 2019-02-16, Tim Slattery wrote:
We had a party line when I was 8 years old or so. A LONG time ago. This was around 1983, a long time ago but modern enough times that it came to me as a surprise that a private line was not available. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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