Call me kooky

Came across this wikipedia artcle from megatokyo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modems#The_Carterfone_decision.  Reading through it brought back memories of the old days.  Back…..uh….. years ago I used to dial into AOL with a 2400 modem on a 386.  It was a blazing fast 386 for the day with a hefty amount of ram but man did AOL take forever to respond.  I think they even had a “low end” version of things just for the shitty modem connection.
I can’t remember if it was later, before, or concurrently (I used the 386 after dad got the compaq p233 because I could stay up all night and chat in my room) but in middle school we had a technology class.  This was before technology was a concern of schools so this class took place after school.  I think it was called technology club, so not really a class.  Man, we dialed into the school net (big thing, schools interconnected on a standard system!) and did gopher searches.  That’s right, gopher.  No stupid guis or browesers.  We had a somewhat pathetic terminial window on a mac….LC model of some sort.  One of the flat ones that actually had color!  At a whopping 9600bps!  We could even log into the UW and run searches in thier information!
Sometime later one of the teachers for technology club accquired a 14.4 modem.  HOLY SHIT MAN! FOURTEEN DOT FOUR!  Wow that was fast back then.  I have fond memories of staying after school to listen to that modem screech and howl.  I can’t remember if we actually accomplished anything with the super new technology but it was fun….. and the begining of the end for me.

Call me kooky (still have the 2400),
Phosphers