[Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)

[David Roper]

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:
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>> I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k ISDN.
>> Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)
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> Children. :)
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> Dennis
> (back to lurking & list management)
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