[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

[Steve Bennett]

On 6/17/06, Conrad Dunkerson <conrad.dunkerson at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Ok, stop... you're making me all nostalgic. I think it all started to go
> downhill when the modems became capable of transferring text faster than
> you could read it (aka 2400 baud). :]

Heh, yeah I remember the time I spent a whole weekend trying to
install a 2400baud modem so I could double my download speed!

(then I saw someone with a 9600 baud modem and nearly died of envy,
frantically seeing how much stuff I could download in one afternoon
while I had access to such "high speed"...!)

Steve