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

Sun Jan 26 23:08:44 UTC 2020

On January 26, 2020 at 15:59 kauer at biplane.com.au (Karl Auer) wrote:
 > On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 22:29 -0600, Aaron Gould wrote:
 > > From: Ben Cannon [mailto:ben at 6by7.net] 
 > > I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud
 > > modems…   
 > 
 > Pah! Luxury!
 > 
 > When *I* were a lad we had to touch the wires with our tongues to tell
 > one from zero, no job for a sissy lemme tell you. And don't talk to me
 > about bandwidth. You could increase it easily enough by wiring up other
 > body parts, but it was hard to keep the staff.

You had ones?! We couldn't afford them, we had to guess from the time
delays between zeros.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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