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On 2012-02-20, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Grant Edwards |
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><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 2012-02-20, Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> * walt <w41ter@×××××.com> [120219 15:37]: |
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>>>> On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> > Sounds like the internet could be switched off. ??So, next question, how |
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>>>> > easy would it be to get it going again? ??Hours? ??Days? ??Weeks? |
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>>>> My guess is that the old farts that read this list could have their |
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>>>> old dialup bulletin boards back on line in a day. ??Probably on the |
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>>>> original hardware gathering dust in the attic :p |
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>>> Naw, uucp on dialup on a Telebit Trailblazer 9600. ??:-) |
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>> It's been a while since I set up a uucp node, but I think I could |
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>> manage it in a couple hours if required. ??To paraphrase Damon Wayans, |
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>> "Homey don't play BBS." ??I think I've got a USR sportster sitting |
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>> around somewhere. ??What I don't have is a POTS line. |
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> Hey, my family ran a 53-line MajorBBS/Worldgroup setup back in the |
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> day, with between 30-50 consumer hardware modems. (Those v.Everythings |
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> were sweet... 3coms were good, too. Anything Motorola after their 14.4 |
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> model...not so much.) Don't knock the BBS. :) |
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I didn't mean to knock them (though I guess Homey the Clown was always |
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being a bit derogatory when he said that line) -- I just never used |
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them and wouldn't have a clue how to run one [it always seemed like |
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they were a DOS thing, and I was a Unix guy]. Aside from that, they |
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also don't really seem like something analogous to the Internet. They |
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all seemed like "walled gardens" whereas UUCP was a way to do |
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networking between peers. In the days before "The Internet" UUCP was |
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how we transferred files, e-mail, and Usenet postings between hosts. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wonder if there's |
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at anything GOOD on tonight? |
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gmail.com |