Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

2011-07-15 Thread David Gerard
On 15 July 2011 02:11, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Three cheers for open standards and and backwards compatibility! I would like to know if it is technically possible to edit a WP article through that system. I found it almost unusable on a 56k modem. So have fun! - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

2011-07-15 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 07/15/2011 03:11 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: Saw this today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE It's a video of a guy demonstrating his 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem that still works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler and in order to demonstrate

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

2011-07-15 Thread WereSpielChequers
Congratulations Liam, you've just made the case for micro stubs. WSC Message: 5 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:11:35 + From: Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic,        300        baud modem To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

2011-07-15 Thread David Gerard
On 15 July 2011 08:31, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Liam, you've just made the case for micro stubs. http://twitter.com/#!/qikipedia - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

2011-07-14 Thread Liam Wyatt
Saw this today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE It's a video of a guy demonstrating his 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem that still works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler and in order to demonstrate it still works he requests the mainpage of en.wp

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

2011-07-14 Thread Keegan Peterzell
Amazing the infrastructure still works to use it. Wow. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Saw this today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE It's a video of a guy demonstrating his 1964 Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler Modem that