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[Dave Zarzycki]

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Don Marti wrote:
> 
> > Oooo, ooo!  Can we start the "how do _you_ spell cp -a" thread again?
> > How about internal vs. external modems?  Or...but I won't mention
> > _that_ one.
> 
> What's a modem? 
> 
> George "The ADSL Kid" Bonser

Personally speaking, I don't know. I've seen them mentioned in the history
books along side UUCP. It seems as if people would use these weird devices
to hack up a serial connection over the analog telephone network. They
later put together networks over these serial links, but the latency was
horrible and the performance was barely tolerable. Wow, those were the
stone ages of computing. Can you even imagine what it would be like to
*not* be connected to the internet all the time?

Dave Zarzycki
"Yet Another DSL Person"


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