Can you even dial random numbers nowadays with the advent of broadband. Not easily I'm guessing. I guess you can piss the guy off across the road if you want. Someone one of my mates hates lives across the street from him and my laptop was able to pick up his wireless. No encription/passkeys. Hmm. Why does he have pretty much every song queen ever made on his hard drive on one PC and then most of those on a second PC?
On 13 Dec, 10:35, Clark Ward Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL Chris, no, I mean the internet that military facilities (NRL > Washington, DC in my case) and some universities used to exchange data > and email. Or, to send information back and forth about sports and > tanks and anything else we felt like sharing :) In some ways it was > more fun than internet is now. > > I was dialling up BBSes at 300 baud, getting in trouble running up the > home phone bill, as early as age... hmm... 8, I think. Maybe a year > or 2 later. Mom had a typewriter-looking terminal that you sat the > phone handset on top of to connect to the phone lines. It didn't have > a screen, it used a built-in printer :) (Got in trouble going > through rolls of paper, too!). This was before we got my Atari > computer, possibly around the time that we bought our Odyssey2 game > system (that you could program in hexadecimal, if you had the right > cartridge. The Od.2 came out in 1978, so I'm going to say I started > BBSing between 78 and 80. > > -- > Clark "not an old fart, you young whippersnapper!" in Georgia -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat
