When we we living in Blacksburg, VA in the 90's we were a part of a community experiment that provided internet access to most of the town. What made this project unique was that selected neighbourhoods were wired with ethernet. After we left the area the reduced connection speeds took a lot of getting used to again.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Rick Root <rick.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox > <zaph0d.b33bl3b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Of course, I also remember how excited I was to get a 9600 baud modem. > > I never did have a 9600 baud modem - but when I was in the dorms at > Western Michigan, we had 9600 baud direct serial connections in our > dorms. Not quite ethernet but mighty fine for the time (1990-1995). > Since the 9600 baud serial connection didn't use compression it was > faster, I think, than the 9600 baud modems.. and didn't tie up the > phone line! > > spent a lot of time MUDding in '93.... too much time! > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331987 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
