Kid told me that he just watched "some crazy old movie" about how a kid hacked into NORAD.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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The kid was blown away by the modem. For those who don't know it's a cradle type dial up modem where you place the (land line) phone on a receiver instead of plugging the computer into the cat4. You could get up to 150 bits per second on one of those bad boys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler
That's about the speed you can read text...it's why pre-internet sites like BBSes weren't all flashy, you had to keep it loadable. Actual downloads you would plan overnight and hope you didn't lose connection. The first big breakthrough was resumable downloading where you left off. Huge.
I have memories of watching pictures back then being transfered by modem. It was one pixel row at a time, being rendered at approximately reading speed. So as a teenager being into hot celebrity girls, I got to watch the image being unveiled during about 3 minutes of watching those pixels appear left to right, one pixel row at a time.
It was cool :)
pamela_anderson_beach.jpg
Didn't even last until it had fully loaded.
You misspelled "RJ11"
phreakmonkey connects to Wikipedia with a 1964 Livermore Labs acoustic modem
Wow. Genuinely blew my mind
Had a hayes 300 ftw
Oh God am I old now? I never had to use one but know of their existence from said movie.
No, that makes you young
Whew that was close
I've not seen some of these words in decades.