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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Quote:
Originally Posted by varmint
the girlfriends nephew has never heard the "scrree-ooochhh-eeee-skraaaaaawwk" dial up noise. he's had dsl his whole life. never had to deal with 14.4bps
i feel ancient.
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Was just at my Brothers house in the Ozarks last week. They are still using dial up to get on the 'net. Fussed with his computer a bit and got it going at 21.6k instead of the 14.4k that it had been doing. (phone lines are dirty) They were happy as can be at the speed increase!
Sad to see...
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