Re: [nznog] What is this?

Why?... its the weekend and we're bored <grin>... better mention BEER - to remain on-topic of couyrse ian Jonathan Brewer wrote:

Can this thread die please?

-----Original Message----- From: Webmaster [mailto:Webmaster(a)radionz.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, 3 June 2006 11:12 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] What is this?

Luxury.

We used to live in a paper bag...

I remember using a 300 bps modem to connect to bulletin boards way back when.

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shane hobson 2/06/2006 19:33 >>>

I used to use Pacnet on a 1200/75 modem on a regular basis. That would

have been late 80's from memory.

Shane

Bill Walker wrote:

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Ian McDonald wrote:

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In which case it was half the Internet - and if all we had was 14K

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the whole country - well, say no more.

Its debatable if that really was an Internet connection in the

modern

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sense.

Well I was using it for NNTP, SMTP, FTP on the Waikato link when it was 2.4K and then 4.8K and it seemed like the Internet to me

then....

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I remember a 1200bps dial up modem my dad had....

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