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Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
From: nanog08 () mulligan org
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:03:20 -0700
Speaking of dial up...I remember on a trip I got the hotel sometime after 2am (bad weather, bad flight). I was trying to dial out from hotel - 9 to get an outside line, then "pause" and then 1 for long distance and 202 for the area code.
I mistyped the phone number or something, and I was not getting connected but kept trying. There was a knock at the door and "Police, everything ok".
I answered and explained that I guess I had mistakenly dialed 911. They did check the room and then left.
I gave up, went to bed, muttering that my email would just have to wait. Geoff On 2/17/20 5:41 PM, Mike Lyon wrote:
Then call waiting came out and would disconnect the session sometimes. That sucked ass.On Feb 17, 2020, at 16:37, Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote: I can't help myself... :) My mother in the 1980s: "no one can ever call us because the phone line is always busy" Me with an Osborne 1 and a 300 baud modem: "We need a second phone line!" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1) My mother: "That's too expensive. Quit clogging up the phone line with that toy!" Me: "Ok...Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding*" (*) I never would've guessed in those days that it would provide me an entire professional career. scott (*) I copied Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding* from a website as I could not spell that.
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