Loser!

[feren]

I nearly orgasmed over finding this page which belongs to the former admin of an ISP I used in Minnesota. I'm not thrilled that I found "him" per se, although it's sort of nice to know he's still alive. What I am thrilled about is that he has links to audio files in the .au format of a modem establishing a v.FC connection and a v.34 connection, both at 28.8k. That, my friends, is nostalgia.

Some days I radiate so much geek radiation that I need to be put into a fifty-five gallon drum and deposited in a concrete bunker for some unfortunate archeologist to rediscover a thousand years from now. Unfortunately for him the drum rusted through, I escaped and now he's glowing like a road flare. The moral of the story, kids, is don't give a shit about the past... you'll just dig up something that makes your skin grow interesting new lesions and causes your teeth to fall out.

Comments

[nonethewiser.livejournal.com]

... what are you smoking and where can I find some?

[yakko.livejournal.com]

His "fast busy" is NOT a real fast-busy. It's the "Hey, Mr. DUMAS, you forgot to hang the phone up!" signal. :o)

[tremaine.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't feel too bad. I get nostalgic whenever I hear the sounds of a2400 baud handshake--my first modem. I have to admit, the v.34 handshake does the same thing... :)

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

Modem negotiation sounds grate on me now. I turn off the speaker whenever I dial out because I'm sick of it, and they're usually loud. It's all those damn Internet service provider commercials that thought using the sounds made their commercial undeniably cool.

[ronbar.livejournal.com]

I think you hyperextended your metaphor.

[feren.livejournal.com]

Whiner.

[captain18.livejournal.com]

The moral of the story, kids, is don't give a shit about the past... you'll just dig up something that makes your skin grow interesting new lesions and causes your teeth to fall out.

Or worse, cause you to fill up a good-sized basement room with things like multiple Commodore 64s and TI-99/4As, and every now and again, boot up your old Lt. Kernal HD to see your old BBS, frozen in time, just as it was in 1992 when it went down.

There are two reasons people build 5,000+sqft houses:
1) To show off their income/class level.
2) They have the same disease I do and need room to house all their nostalgia.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

*screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaams*

[captain18.livejournal.com]

Hey, you knew what you were getting into when you said "Yes"...

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

but it keeps getting worse...

[feren.livejournal.com]

<zim>
Worse... or better?
</zim>

[ronbar.livejournal.com]

What are you planning on doing with that Aim-n-Flame?

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Hey... I like my lesions!