Topic: Happy Birthday :-)

[Clive]

25 years ago, communications were changed forever.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/

[Rik]

Well, I never... I always assumed they were organic.

[Clive]

Just one of life's big surprises Rik!   

[Reno]

My brother use to be big into the bulletin boards. Sometimes i think i missed the party. People seemed to have more fun back then.

[Clive]

Yes, I was heavily into bulletin boards too Bob.  Only problem was that in those days my modem speed was 14.4 Kb/sec on National call rates!  Still, it was my first taste of being online.   

[Rik]

Forgotten the 300 baud modems, Clive, not to mention the 9.6k ones... 

[sam]

... i just have grown up with it being in constant use.. I can't think of a time when it hasn't been around... oh well, you guys are old. lol :-)

[Clive]

My first PC was a 386 running at 16MHz.  That sported a 9.6K modem but it was so slow as to be virtually unusable.  The national call rates made it too prohibitive to use at that speed!  Even I don't remember 300 baud!! 

[Rik]

I do. Not to mention 1200/75!!