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@celesteh@lgbt.io
Charles ☭ but you can call me the fediverse bloke @celesteh@lgbt.io
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How many bauds was your first modem?

300 - 19 votes
1200 - 23 votes
4800 - 8 votes
56k - 29 votes
ADSL - 10 votes
Bitch, I'm a fibre baby - 1 votes
90 votes - poll expired
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@celesteh@lgbt.io
Charles ☭ but you can call me the fediverse bloke @celesteh@lgbt.io
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What was your first ISP?

A cult of the dead cow BBS - 0 votes
A BBS less good than the CDC - 5 votes
Compuserve - 3 votes
AOL - 4 votes
A local telco - 8 votes
A local co-op - 3 votes
Wait, there used to be good ISPs? - 1 votes
24 votes - poll expired
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@cks@mastodon.social
Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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@celesteh My first ISP was 'me', in two senses, so I guess you could say that was a co-op. One sense was simply that I worked for a university so I got a second modem and put it on my office phone line and dialed in, eventually running PPP over my connection to my office Unix workstation. The more interesting sense is that at one point I ran a 'public access Unix' on second-hand hardware, taking a Usenet feed (and exchanging email) over UUCP and letting people dial in and so on.

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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social
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@celesteh I'm pretty certain my first modem was 1200 baud (although maybe it was 2400, it's been a long time ago). I definitely dialed in to 300 baud BBSes though, although on some of them you could edge the baud up a bit so it was less tedious to read posts.

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