Lazy Friday: 300 baud modem from 1964
Saw this on Fark and thought it was pretty cool. A working modem from 1964. Back when things were built to last rather than our modern mode of "planned obsolescence". I think one of the major downfalls of our current society is that everything we purchase is designed to be discarded and replaced four or five years later. I only expect my routers to last two or three years and can't imagine one that would last 45!
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There is a half-finished amber beer or ale on a table behind the geekery. Is that for nose spitting later when the modem finds something funny?
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Hey – that guy typed his username and p/w into the laptop on the video. We can totally hack into his site now. If only we had one of those modem thingies. And a phone large enough to fit it.
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I started the video and woke up with about a minute remaining.
I actually found it quite fascinating and will try to watch it later, when his voice isn't so easily able to put me to sleep.
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I don't understand why people need "broadband" or "highspeed internet".
You can't type faster than 1200 baud!
(I'm wondering how many people will get this joke)
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I was cleaning a house yesterday and saw these HUGE routers that were really old. I'm talkin' really old IBM's that were as big as my TV. (32") I was thinking to myself, where'd they get those antiques?
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That is freaking insane!
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Cool beans. Yeah, that gets my goat, too. Wish fashion, everything. There's too much trash! Let's just hold onto things a little longer…
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Ahhh…getting a little sentimental for things made in decades past, are we?
You know what I'm talking about.
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if i was flavor flav and you were one of my hoes, you'd definitely get a clock, because you know what time it is
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There's an ATM Machine in the shopping center we go to occasionally that still connects over dial-up.
The good old days.
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My nipples just got hard.
Wow.
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Showing my age here, but the first puter I ever used had huge disks and it had to have it's own special room with the AC running all the time. Froze my butt off!
This is just a reminder of my old dial up days and makes me want to shove pencils into my ears hearing that tone!
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I wanted to see him load up Fark.com. :lmao:
Still impressive. Up until 3 years ago, I had a 1200 baud modem that still worked. I bought it in 1985. 20 years and still worked. So this find is very impressive.
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