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

[Nikola Smolenski]

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.