> 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 Users can subscribe to the List by sending an email to <muglo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field Users can unsubscribe from the List by sending an email to <muglo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field Users must send messages or replies to <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> All messages are archived so that you can view them at any time by going to <//www.freelists.org/archives/muglo> Problems concerning use of the FreeList should be sent to <paulthomas@xxxxxxx> Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/