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by wistlo 1383 days ago
So many long-forgotten companies advertising!

So many modems!

I know someone who was a grad student at that time, and how excited he was to get a 2400 baud modem and his own VT-100 for work on the VAX.

That grad student was me, though today it seems almost impossible to remember what it was like back then. I do remember ruining a colleague's line-by-line source printout by sending a console message that read, "Andropov just died."

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2400 baud? You lucky bastard! We had to whistle into a handset.
You had a handset? Luxury. We used to dream of having a handset...

We used to create static electricity by rubbing a hand on the carpet, then touching the phone wire...

You had carpet?
You had wires? Spoiled brats, the lot of you!

We had to use Avian IP and tons of breadcrumbs...

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549