| Still.. it was damn fun though.. okay.. i spend a lot of hours with coffee, cola, end those special green, gold and glorious cigarettes, cursing on that damn script.. cursing on Unix, ect. till deep in the night.. Until my girlfriend came see if i didn't die.. but man, what a feeling when u finally got it done.. and Telemate (a DOS call in proggy) i think it was.. started up.. on the net.
So it was slow..but remember that u didn't know that at the time, and it was pretty amazing that you could send an email to the USA.. and get an reply in like 15 min.. no post office could ever beat that..
If you hear Data in startrek say that his memory is 4 Gigaquad.. on 4 trillion Ghz or something.. I curse my 2 terrabyte... but hey..
In 1985 i got my first cable modem.. and was 24/7 online.. with all of a 2.40 MB that gave me super-speeds of 25kb/sec down.. if i was lucky. because you needed to share the bandwidth with the rest of the block that was online with the same ISP.. but since there was only 1 ISP.. well... that could on bad days slow ur download to a grinding halt. and there were enough bad days...
Now i got a 20 MB ADSL2 line, that i will be laughing about in like 10-20 years.. but such is time.. and progress.. isn't it ?..
__________________ I am always amazed at the intelligence of the universe, and the stupidity of mankind..
And i am not sure about the universe...
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