Amazing the infrastructure still works to use it. Wow.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:

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

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On 07/15/2011 03:11 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:

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.

Yes, it would be possible. Note however that the system does not access the Internet directly, but only has terminal access to another system that is on the Internet. The coupler is too slow to actually be on the Internet.