[yakkers]

Reminds me of the time I had a bit of fun with the modems I had lying around in my old tech drawers. Set up a small Debian system with a modem connected to the PSTN, got mgetty running to accept incoming calls.

Finding a friend who still had a PSTN line themselves was surprisingly difficult (in Australia, we’re moving away from PSTN in favour of VoIP), but I found one.

I only managed to get a remote shell going, but if I had more time to play around with it I probably could have got PPP up and running. Having someone else on the other end for a multiplayer DOOM session over dialup would have been really cool.