Re: [nznog] What is this?

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. R

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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

Ian McDonald wrote:

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In which case it was half the Internet - and if all we had was 14K for the whole country - well, say no more.

Its debatable if that really was an Internet connection in the modern 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

have been late 80's from memory. Shane Bill Walker wrote: then....

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

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