[Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic, 300 baud modem

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Congratulations Liam, you've just made the case for micro stubs.

WSC

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> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:11:35 +0000
> From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia as seen through 1964 acoustic,        300
>        baud modem
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> Saw this today:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE
> It's a video of a guy demonstrating his 1964 Livermore Data Systems "Model
> A" Acoustic Coupler Modem that still works
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler
> and in order to demonstrate it still works he requests the mainpage of en.wp
> :-) The page starts loading at 6:40 of the video.
>
> Three cheers for open standards and and backwards compatibility!
> I would like to know if it is technically possible to edit a WP article
> through that system.
>
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com/blog
> Peace, love & metadata
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