Gmane is (thanks heavens) definitely not dead. I am at this very moment
reading your post via Gmane. The Thunderbird email program, which I
use for normal day-to-day email, will also connect to usenet services
(like gmane) and presents those posts with the same UI as regular emails.
It is the b
When I started programming, we would mail (US Postal Service) decks of punched
cards to MIT to be run on their machine. Then they would mail the printed
output back to us. This was in 1963.
Will
On 2020 Jul 7, at 07-07 12:31:38, david whiting wrote:
You beat me to it! I was going to make th
Now *that* is dedication! It sure beats laden swallows and smoke signals though.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:31 PM, david whiting
> wrote:
>
> You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's
> my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the ma
You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's
my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the main
hospital in the country. To send email I think I used a simple text
client and saved emails to a floppy disk. I would then take them over
to the library where the guy
On 07 July 2020 at 12:09, David Carlson said:
> Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps? I had a Radio Shack model 100
Oooh, we used to *dream* of having 300 baud. We had to send our data one
bit at a time using Morse code tapped out on an old drainpipe.
_
I think I was lucky enough to set up on a 14.4kbps. I thought that was blazing
fast. (I used to manually write to my printer using my CoCoIII @ 300-2400) My
eventual bump to 56k was like being a kid in a candy store. Then came AOL and
very large phone bills! DSL and the web were heaven by compar
Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps? I had a Radio Shack model 100
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:27 AM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Yep, those were the days. I first cut my teeth on anything ‘internet’ via
> Usenet, before my first browser experience.
>
> Regards,
> Adrie
Yep, those were the days. I first cut my teeth on anything ‘internet’ via
Usenet, before my first browser experience.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 11:09 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> wrote:
>
> Am 07.07.20 um 16:54 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
>> If it is dead, we should remove the
Am 07.07.20 um 16:54 schrieb Adrien Monteleone:
> If it is dead, we should remove the reference.
It is not really dead, but you can currently only access it by a news
reader. Do you remember that kind of software?
Regards
Frank
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