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

Mon Jan 27 20:06:12 UTC 2020

On January 27, 2020 at 09:26 james.voip at gmail.com (james jones) wrote:
 > Does AOL count? If my first real internet connection was dial up 3600 baud
 > through compuserv. When I finally upgraded to 56K I thought it was light
 > speed. 

I remember going from 300b to 1200b and thinking wow, this is it,
we're done, I cannot read text scrolling on the screen at 1200b.

(Ok, we did have a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A dumb terminal in the lab which
could keep up with 19.2kb across the room to a PDP-11 so I wasn't
ignorant of faster speeds, but in terms of remote access I really
thought 1200b was all I'd ever need.)

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