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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by nvr219 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:46PM (#14699262)
Eternal September was September 1993... That's like, 2400 baud days
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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by jdietrich on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:05PM (#14699337)
9600 baud modems had just arrived in 1993.

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1993/hr159.html

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by nl on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:39PM (#14699829)
I was using a 1200 baud, via SLIRP[1]. In 1994 (I think?) remember cycling into University with a box of 10 1.44M floppy disks to copy Slackware 0.1 so I could install it at home.

The bandwidth of a box of floppy disks on a bicycle was higher.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp

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