Ca. 1994, there was an older fella in the Tallahassee Mac user group who could be a good resource for troubleshooting newbie problems that weren't tackled by the BBS.
He was nice enough, but he was definitely a weird, crotchety old guy.
Point is, at meetings, he would often make a rather belligerent point of reminding everyone to never call him before noon.
Because "that's when I do my downloading."
I still think about this, and it's a phrase I often consider adding to my own vernacular.
"Express X as a minimalist infographic" is a fascinating prompt. Useless and mental results at the moment but I could see it actually being useful one day. Fed it a banana bread recipe for funzies...
Whenever it does something like this and I ask it to explain itself, it says something like “this is just an example of what an infographic might look like blah blah blah. “
@sandyarmstrong@hotdogsladies fair "In the late 1990s, technologies to achieve speeds above 33.6 kbit/s began to be introduced. Several approaches were used, but all of them began as solutions to a single fundamental problem with phone lines."
@codinghorror@hotdogsladies Meh - when I started I could type faster than the 300 baud phone coupler modem like in the picture. Not hooked up to a CRT, but a line feed printer…
@John@codinghorror@hotdogsladies LOL - download? The idea hadn’t even been invented yet since there was nothing to download to. Just characters on paper.
When I started on BBSs & Internet over terminals, that at least started at 1200bps. Newsgroups, Binhex, etc. Fun times.
But yeah, it’s probably time for bed for an old fogy like me :-)
@codinghorror@hotdogsladies I might be mistaken but weren't 56k modems just 33.6k modems with data compression on top that sometimes effectively increased the transfer speed on compressible-data? In my mind I've got a prejudice against 56k as being kind of a marketing term rather than an actual data rate.
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