ouch, I made ISD calls to Sydney after 10pm from Northern Australia to get the cheaper rates and had a 24k modem into one of the only ISPs in Australia at the time, IBM. I emailed someone in NASA once just because I came across their email address (in a Scientific American article I think?) … and they replied I was like… my jaw dropped when a reply came and I was like … this is the future and here we are, i never once imagined how shit it could get.
The early Internet brings back memories, when I’m using Linux. Only been on Linux for 3 years (Mint).
In the UK we had free numbers that would cut out after an hour of use and you had to redial, so you had to do downloads or uploads is chunks
ouch, I made ISD calls to Sydney after 10pm from Northern Australia to get the cheaper rates and had a 24k modem into one of the only ISPs in Australia at the time, IBM. I emailed someone in NASA once just because I came across their email address (in a Scientific American article I think?) … and they replied I was like… my jaw dropped when a reply came and I was like … this is the future and here we are, i never once imagined how shit it could get.
The early Internet brings back memories, when I’m using Linux. Only been on Linux for 3 years (Mint).
Oh god I feel old. Please don’t remind me of that.