Lucky Cow by Mark Pett for November 03, 2018
November 02, 2018
November 04, 2018
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Noise: AARGGH! Gary: Clare, it sounds like your brother is frustrated. Why don't you help him? Clare: Mm-kay... whatever... what's the matter, Dougie? Boy: This stupid movie clip took thirty whol seconds to download! Clare: Thirty seconds?! Dougie, you're lucky to even have high-speed Internet! When I was your age, we only had dial-up! If I wanted to download a movie clip, I had to use a 14400-baud modem - and I was happy to have it! blink blink. Just shoot me now.
@sundogusa – I guess I was lucky – I got my Osborne with a raging 2400 bps, even though dialup still is limited to 600 baud. You might be surprised (I was) going to the US Robotics website. They still have a large business in 56K dialup modems. Underdeveloped regions and industrial remote monitoring are still big business.