Super thread necro surprise attack

[Ripheus23]

 

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http://shikan.org/bjones/Usenet.Hist/Nethist/0061.html

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Link courtesy of https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/who-could-find-the-oldest-comment-thread-news-on-the-internet.2301303/

 

[+Doomstick he/him]

Um

[+Hoiditthroughthegrapevine he/him]

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QUESTIONS ANSWERED
.IP 1.
Isn't this expensive?
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Not at all.
Night time phone costs are about $0.50/3 minutes,
in which time uucp can transfer about 3000 bytes of data (300 baud).
Daily polling then costs $15/Month, which is half what Duke pays
just for an office phone.

Turn back time, 300 baud modem... paying 15 dollars a month to do daily polls of message boards . Crazy.

Ahhh, to pay 50 cents to transfer 3k of data, or buy 16 bit-o-honeys or 50 jolly ranchers. Here is the soundtrack of nostalgia: