Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

nanog08 at mulligan.org nanog08 at mulligan.org
Tue Feb 18 02:03:20 UTC 2020 

Speaking of dial up...

I remember on a trip I got the hotel sometime after 2am (bad weather, 
bad flight). I was trying to dial out from hotel - 9 to get an outside 
line, then "pause" and then 1 for long distance and 202 for the area code.

I mistyped the phone number or something, and I was not getting 
connected but kept trying.  There was a knock at the door and "Police, 
everything ok".

I answered and explained that I guess I had mistakenly dialed 911. They 
did check the room and then left.

I gave up, went to bed, muttering that my email would just have to wait.

Geoff



On 2/17/20 5:41 PM, Mike Lyon wrote:
> Then call waiting came out and would disconnect the session sometimes. That sucked ass.
>
>> On Feb 17, 2020, at 16:37, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
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>> 
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>> I can't help myself... :)
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>> My mother in the 1980s: "no one can ever call us because the phone line is always busy"
>>
>> Me with an Osborne 1 and a 300 baud modem:  "We need a second phone line!"
>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1)
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>> My mother: "That's too expensive.  Quit clogging up the phone line with that toy!"
>>
>> Me: "Ok...Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding*"   (*)
>>
>>
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>> I never would've guessed in those days that it would provide me an entire professional career.
>>
>> scott
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>> (*) I copied Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding*
>> from a website as I could not spell that.

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