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Originally Posted by wolf
Pre-web, son. There was such a time. Giants strode the earth in those days. editor and cerberus and siano and adamzion. Yes, those were the days.
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How many people remember when Archie and Veronica didn't have anything to do with comics?
When bps and baud meant the same thing?
When you had to put command strings in front of a phone number to keep the modem from timing out trying to handshake?
Downloads were done in Xmodem and Kermit.
Usenet was the only way to network, and there were less than 2,000 newsgroups.
I remember getting a used 300 baud Hayes Smartmodem at an employee auction and sitting on a porch one vacation weekend in Atlantic City with a soldering iron and two user manuals making a serial cable for my Atari 800.
Man I feel old.
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