-=> KURT WEISKE wrote to BOB BREED <=-

 -=> BOB BREED wrote to MARK HOFMANN <=-

 BB> First private line data network installed in San Diego, and get this;
 BB> the modem was 50 baud!

 KW> And, I thought the 56bk/sec leased line I bought to connect my whole
 KW> company to the internet in 1993 was Old School! I think it was $6K/year
 KW> ports costs plus the cost of the line. We had about 100 people on it at
 KW> the time, but only a third of that knew what the internet was, Flash
 KW> hadn't been invented yet, and email was still plaintext, for the most
 KW> part.

 KW> Hindsight is always 20/20. I should have stuffed a BBS box in the
 KW> server room and gone telnet back then.

Most of the old timers here recall the old fidonet where messages had about a 3
day lag, on good weeks. :)

Now using the inet you get messages posted a few hours ago. 

I feel very fortunate to have lived in times I've experienced.  Watch TV grow
from 10 inch B/W to god knows what size, HD color.

Cars where you did a valve job every 20-30k, now the engines go 150k and you
never pop the head. (Good thing too as I can't even find the Head in my car
it's covered up with so much stuff.)  :)

Movies from B/W with a rare color now and again, to 3d, but have to admit
content has gone to hell.  

Then the data stuff - mind boogles at that.

Oh, have to add the days of a blue collar guy getting a job that paid enough to
buy a home, a car, and raise a family - granted a few lean times but we made
t.

Looks like those days are gone too.



 


 
 
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