Down memory lane

Memory 1:
Today is (hmmmmm) the 44th anniversary of the first live around the world tv broadcast: "Our world". I watched it, but the only thing I remember was this: The Beatles: All you need is love

Memory 2:
Our commercial TV channel runs a show, "Gyldne tider" (Golden Ages), a where-are-they-now (yesterday's celebrities) program. Today focus was on the American speed skater Dan Jansen, one of the greatest speed skater ever. He won the gold medal in 1000 m. event at the Lillehammer 1994 olympics. He was a favourite in Calgary 6 years before, but fell on both 500 m and 1000 m. His sister died of leukemia hours before his first competition. In Lillehammer he stumbled on the 500 m race, ending as number eight. But finally he succeeded in the 1000 m race. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAiCzonydTo (I hope you excuse the Norwegian). A great moment. He's still one of the most popular olympic gold medalists in Norway.

Memory 3:
A friend sent me this. I still remember back in 1988(?) when I bought my first modem, a 2400 bps device, which was really fast (compared to most affordable modems).

Bah! I suppose some of you still wore diapers at the time.

Memories are for fags. I kill mine with drinks and whores.

A modem in 1988? Surely you mean 1998. In which case you were kind of late but 1988 would have made you part of a secret military project

Originally Posted by Charles-cgr
A modem in 1988? Surely you mean 1998. In which case you were kind of late but 1988 would have made you part of a secret military project

Nope. It may have been in 1989, but not later. Dialup modems were readily available during the last half of the 80s, one of the major companies making them was USRobotics. Their 2400 bps modems were state of the art.

*shudders* That modem sound brings back memories of family members shouting at me to not hog the phone line.

Originally Posted by Fnord
*shudders* That modem sound brings back memories of family members shouting at me to not hog the phone line.

One of the reasons why I switched to ISDN as soon as it became available where I lived. Nobody yelled at me (except for the wife, maybe). But I had children……

I bought my first modem the very same year (1988) - and if I'm not mistaken, it was 1200 Baud.

Originally Posted by Charles-cgr
A modem in 1988? Surely you mean 1998. In which case you were kind of late but 1988 would have made you part of a secret military project

Nah, there were modems around then. Even games to play! Pretty sure populous was late 80s with modem support. Turbo… Firepower…. Not many, thats for sure. Never played them modem though.

By 1995 I remember people giving away old 2400bps modems. Thats how I first got on the net. I got hooked so bad on MajorMUD BBS game.

I found this teleshop magazine from 1987. In addition to the modems, they also sell hard disk drives, an 80mb one for 950usd!

In 1988 I bought an IBM PS/2 model 70 PC (i386 CPU), which as I remember came with a 85Mb disk. I got it cheap since I worked at an IBM PC vendor, 40% below list price, at 10000usd.

Originally Posted by pibbur
One of the reasons why I switched to ISDN as soon as it became available where I lived. Nobody yelled at me (except for the wife, maybe). But I had children……

I was a child during the "modem era", a child who happened to enjoy online games. When the first large scale MMOs started to pop up, back in 97-98, my family's phone bill suddenly skyrocketed (I started with Ultima online). My family was quite relieved when they started to offer 10/10 fiber in our apartment building, back in 2000. Nowadays I'm so used to this constant high speed connection that it would feel strange to move to a place where they don't offer at least 10/10 fiber (where I live 100/100 fiber is the norm).

Haha, I remember my father being pissed because of the huge jump in the phone bill

I was in college for mirco computers in 1889 and had a 2400b modem at home at the time a no i was not working with the government…

2400 baud modems are available since 1984.

Originally Posted by Charles-cgr
A modem in 1988? Surely you mean 1998. In which case you were kind of late but 1988 would have made you part of a secret military project

Speaking of, I ran a BBS from my apartment. I'd keep the speakers of the modems (there were 3 of them) on because it was possible to diagnose connect issues by the sounds they made, and I'd turn them off when I was away.

I came home one day, and the guy who lived next door stopped me as i entered the building.

"I know what you're doing in there, and i don't like it!" he said. I explained to him that it was a BBS, and he started accusing me of spying on him, of trying to control his mind with radios and other things I can't remember now. When i offered to show him. he accoused me of trying to capture him. After that day, I never saw him again.