[NEWS] Blast from the Past
The guys over at Engadget have posted this article from their BBS from 1985. The articles are awesome to read and for some of you will undoubtedly cause a bit of nostalgia. I wonder how we will look back on our blogs of today in 20 years time.
For those of you too young to know what a BBS (Bulletin Board System) was it is what we had before the internet. You dialed your modem directly into the BBS’s modem bank. I still remember when my local BBS got a second phone line, which meant two people could be online at once and we could chat real time it was amazing!
2 Comments:
When I started on BBSs I had a 300 bps modem. Of course we always used a stop and parity bit so that meant 30 characters a second. A line full of text took over 2 seconds.
Your post would have taken 19 seconds not counting any headers and footers. Now if you used fancy ANSI so it could have colours (I was going to add etc, but really there wasn't much else other than cursor movement) then it would take even longer.
I could download about 1.75k in a minute. I remember downloading pictures taking 20 minutes (about 35k!). If someone talked about a 2,000,000 bps connection and downloading a 350 Mbyte file in a few hours you would have considered them completely mental!
A 350Mbyte file would take about 142 days to download. One would have to choose the episodes to download carefully!
Ben.
P.S. This comment hwould have added an extra 29 seconds to the post :-)
Damn dude, waiting that long for a 35k file to download would have been nuts.
Im so glad i wasnt using computers back then.
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