[muglo] Re: ISPs



> From: "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:09:21 -0400
> To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [muglo] Re: ISPs
> 
> 
> on 27/8/02 14:39, Larry Kryski at lskryski@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps we should all step back from these arguments for a moment to reflec=
>> t
>> on where we stand compared to 10 or 15 years ago. I know that 10 or 15 year=
>> s
>> ago if we could have looked ahead and seen the capabilities that we have
>> right now, we would be flabbergasted if we heard ourselves complaining. I
>> think that it would have made us sound like a rather ungrateful lot, don=B9t
>> you think?
> 
> 10 years ago I already had high-speed web access ;P (me, and the 10 other
> people who happened to be affiliated with a university and knew how to use
> gopher/ftp/early www). Compared to the days when I was BBSing with 1200 baud
> (right after Forever Knight (or whatever Roger Gustafson's son's BBS was
> (can't remember his son's name (he should be 29-31 by now)))) having a T3 at
> my disposal is incredible (though, as I say I've been spoiled with
> high-speed access for 9 years now in two weeks (my first intro to high-speed
> internet was Sept/1993)... & a friend had high speed web in residence 1994
> at York (lucky SOB)).
> 
> Eric.

Lucky U Eric!
 
I started at 300 baud (remember that term?) on my Mac in June 1984, when a
Classic really was a classic and the Mac was a state of the HEART
technology. I thought that 300 baud was fast because before that I dealt
with teletypes at 25 cps (characters per second but all caps). I could
almost hand write that fast!

Larry



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