| <JustinArthur> | I used to surf up the interweb and IRC in Windows 3.11 on a an AMD 80386DX 40MHz edition. |
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<skyfire> | JA: after walking three miles through waist deep snow, up hill, when it was -40 outside just to get to your computer :P |
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<JustinArthur> | Shit, back then, we had to use TCP/IP over smoke signal protocol. |
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<Nikolai> | Why the hell was your computer on top of a hill in waist-deep snow? O.o |
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<Lorentz> | Why not? |
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<skyfire> | smoke signal protocol!?! |
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<skyfire> | in my day, we used a log and two sticks |
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<JustinArthur> | Yup, someone would be at the fire on the hill with a blanket and yell out the 0s and 1s to the guy whose turn it was to be demodulator. |
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<skyfire> | we just pounded them out on the log with our demodulator writing it down with charcoal |
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<skyfire> | of course, noise was always a problem |
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<skyfire> | lousy october gales |
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<skyfire> | we were droping smoke packets like there was no tomorrow |
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<skyfire> | then we came up with the idea of broadband over forest fire |
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<skyfire> | that didn't work very well |
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<skyfire> | I mean, we got the blazing speed we expected |
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<skyfire> | unfortunately, we had a tendency to burn out the modems =/ |
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