gordon b slater wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:00 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:
for days now, i've been trying to remember a quotation, which i vaguely seem
"the telephone, once commonly available in cities, ...."
ring a bell for anyone?
Maybe it was a Gopher thing?
This newfangled Googly-thing finds nothing - it'll never catch on.
(rant, sorry)
Ever noticed how a call to a cellphone in the next town sounds
consistently horrible, yet a landline call to "farawayistan" sounds like
it's coming from next door? Damn 3kbps vocoders...
Regards,
Jeroen (who still makes frequent landline-2-landline calls to
"farawayistan" and is not yet an old fart(?))
