[Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 28 August 2006 08:16, Bob Devries wrote:

>On that note, I was on the 'net in 19923 ( I was 40 at that time)

>

>I still remember the consternation of a few of you Americans that an

> Aussie had joined the ranks. There was a certain amount of disbelief.

>

And someplace back in those early messages, if they haven't succumbed to 
bit rot by now, is a welcome message from me.  Terse IIRC, because at that 
time the net hookup to Australia was a satellite connection with voice 
grade bandwidth.

We sometimes don't realize just how far we've come in 25 years.


>--

>Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

>

>Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me

>the capacity to be his spokesman,

>so that I know how to help the weary.

>

>website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl

>my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

>

>----- Original Message -----

>From: "David Roper" <dave at ebonhost.com>

>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

>Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:59 PM

>Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)

>

>> Nice, Dennis

>>

>> But to continue the measuring, I'll put forward that by age and date,

>> one of the earliest users of the "Internet" here, having surfed on my

>> 2400 through a BBS gateway when I was 12.. :)

>>

>> (btw, currently 27)

>>

>> - David

>>

>> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

>>> At 09:43 PM 8/28/06 +1000, David Roper wrote:

>>>> I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k

>>>> ISDN. Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)

>>>

>>> Children. :)

>>>

>>> 110 baud here in 1979, and some folks in this crowd remembering my

>>> funny story about the telephone guy having to come out from the

>>> central office and twist two lines together to get the Model I to work

>>> at the 300 baud upgrade, and give me one of the first private

>>> telephone lines in town. (There were 330 residents and about 100 lines

>>> available when I moved in.)

>>>

>>> Anyway, 27 years later I'm now on 5M/256k with a private local ISP

>>> serving

>>> fewer than 1,000 customers. My stepson built the system, Linux-based,

>>> all glass up to the pole 300 feet away.

>>>

>>> Dennis

>>> (back to lurking & list management)

>>

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