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RE: Sunday Musings: I Didn't Realize how much I've Missed Social Blogging!
How about the social blogging scene of 30 years ago?
It was bulletin boards and something called usenet. The BBS systems were local computers that you would actually call into using your telephone and a modem. Have you ever communicated at 300 baud?
Usenet sprung up among universities that used the Unix operating system developed at Bell Labs. "News groups" were the things. You would subscribe to the groups that interested you, and could interact by posting your messages, images, code, etc.
Thanks, @denmarkguy, for your reflections on this and for a short trip down memory lane... ;)
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Oh yeah! I totally remember BBS systems... I was even a "sysop" for a while; I remember well (circa 1984) dialing up the University of Texas mainframe to download text messages IF we could get a "clean" connection... using a phone headset and a cradle modem. 300 baud... yep, and it was a really big deal when we were able to connect at 1200 baud. Wow... such speed!
I'm an old fossil, when it comes to tech... wrote my first bit of code in BASIC on 7-hole punched tape (pre-parity bit days); later had lots of "fun" (not!) coding in COBOL on IBM punched cards... nothing quite like dropping a tray of 1300 loose cards on the way down the stairs to the card reader!
Fond memories, indeed!
When the first 9600 baud modems came out, I thought they were shitting me... I thought that the Nyquist theorem denied that such a speed would be possible over a 3.1Khz voice channel...
To be honest, I still don't understand how the heck they were able to achieve 56kbaud modems over voice lines! Some kind of magic going on there! :O