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Stop it, you are making me nostalgic for a time i never completely lived through.

My first memories are of sitting on my father's lap as a 3y old, connecting to a BBS. Even as small as that I understood completely that was special. The interconnectedness of our society is now taking for granted, but man how special it was.





SKREEEEE... BLORT BLORT SKREEEE.... CACHUNK BLORT SKREEE...

At least you got to experience the carol of the modem tones.

A few years ago I used the 1200 baud connect sequence as a phone ring tone. Everyone chuckled, my child asked "what the he'll was that, I think I heard it in a movie."




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