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

[Keegan Peterzell]

Amazing the infrastructure still works to use it.  Wow.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at 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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> Peace, love & metadata
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