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OwlFancier posted:Using a teletype machine to receive artisanally produced ascii dick pics. EBCDIC dicks
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Collateral Damage posted:"Typewriter art" is a term I've seen used. https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/23/typewriter-art-laurence-king/ Yeah. As long as the typewriter has been a thing pretty much people have thought to use it to make silly pictures.
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Collateral Damage posted:56k, luxury! 56k was the only phone modem we ever had as my dad didn't want to pay an ISP, so we didn't have home internet until I started University, and he knew the uni I went to had a pool of like six modems for the students and staff to dial into. We used that for like six months before we just switched to Freeserve, which was a significantly better ISP than a university. I did have a few internet experiences before that though, since the reason he knew anything about the Uni having those modems was because he worked in their business park (previously, he was actually an employee, but a UK tax rule changed so the Uni would actually need to pay tax on their previously very profitable wholly owned businesses, so his work was quickly spun off but they remained in the same office). Their business park had fibre lines run from the Uni's big fibre pipe, so in the early '90s when my dad had to work weekends I'd sometimes join him and enjoy some Windows 3.1 high speed surfing. I did experience incredibly slow speeds though, as by 2000 I'd decided mobile internet was obviously the future and I was determined to live in that future even if nobody else had caught up, so despite being at Uni and having no income I managed to get an O2 contract (thanks to my parents) with a Motorola Timeport L7089 with the data set up, offering a whopping 9.6kbps of internet. I used this with an HP 320LX which came with Windows CE 1.0, but there was a free upgrade if you sent back a registration card included in the box. This in turn caused them to physically ship you a Windows CE 2.0 ROM card which replaced the already installed one in a little bay on the bottom of the device. Mildly neat also was that it included AA rechargeables and would charge them if you used the provided PSU, but if you ran out of power, you could swap it out for plain old AAs until you were able to get back to your charger (a few PDAs were like this, back in the day). Also it was pre-Bluetooth so to get that 9600kbps you had to align the IR port on the PDA with the IR port on the phone. Even back then with Web 1.0, stuff barely worked on "Pocket IE". The picture is my actual devices, they both still work, though I'm not sure the phone could still do data (the phone and SMS parts are fine if you stick a SIM in it. Battery's incredibly dead, though)
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I really like the old PDA super wide keyboard layout. I wish they sell phone keyboard accessories in that shape so you can drop a phone on it. Phones nowadays all come in that super wide aspect ratio. The important part is the keyboard case needs to have a hard hinge so you can freely adjust the angle like a laptop.
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Nocheez posted:Another Tax memory! He pulled a report showing what browsers were being used in like 2003 or 4. Then he banned the only person using WebTV because "wtf" This also happened to the user browsing via the Dreamcast browser. And we are all lesser for it.
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didnt jeffrey unban those
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Tankakern posted:didnt jeffrey unban those I'm imagining a goon turning on his WebTV one day, refreshing SA just for kicks and seeing that he's unbanned.
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Mar 9, 2024 18:37
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I believe that turned out to be a joke.
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I've always wondered if the WebTV goon was actually using a WebTV or had just changed their user agent string to the silliest thing they could think of.
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I always assume Lowtax made it up like he did pretty much everything else.
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Sweevo posted:I always assume Lowtax made it up like he did pretty much everything else. he didn't lie about all the goldbelly.
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It was Radium who claimed to have banned the webTV guy, not LT.
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Not anymore reliable than the taxman though.
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Nocheez posted:Rightfully so. All catchphrases get worn out and annoying in a very short amount of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8flLpb3zXA&t=296s Weatherman has a new favorite as of 05:58 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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haw, I had that exact same modem. It maxed out at 26.4 thanks to lovely rural copper
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:haw, I had that exact same modem. It maxed out at 26.4 thanks to lovely rural copper I got one for free at work as a spiff because they wanted us to push v.90 after X2 failed to do anything. It was pretty sweet.
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https://twitter.com/americanrails/status/1766930818935496744?s=20
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VIA in Canada still has cars like this in service on their long-distance trains and they’re absolutely gorgeous to sit and watch the world go by in.
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I remember riding on that train back in the '60s.
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Those ones with the observation blisters on top look lush too. Would love to ride on one of those.
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Arivia posted:VIA in Canada still has cars like this in service on their long-distance trains and they’re absolutely gorgeous to sit and watch the world go by in. They're also predictably falling apart from regular transcontinental use. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/via-rail-says-its-passenger-trains-are-past-their-prime-calls-on-ottawa-to-replace-the-fleet-1.6779722
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IIRC Switzerland has a good number of sightseeing cars with huge windows on the more touristy lines. If it wasn't so stupidly expensive there* I'd be really tempted to go tour Switzerland by train.  * Even by Norwegian standards
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The US has a line called Rocky Mountaineer which has similar cars.
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Can't wait for landlords to install solar and simply charge us "fair market rate" for their own electricity. e: wrong thread, but still, dollar to donuts something like this eventually happens
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:The US has a line called Rocky Mountaineer which has similar cars. I’ve taken it several times in both directions from Colo to Cali, highly recommend. E: sorry mixed up with the Amtrak California Zephyr. n/m I can’t speak for the Rocky Mountaineer but I’m sure it’s equally enjoyable. Dicty Bojangles has a new favorite as of 21:13 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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Varance posted:They're also predictably falling apart from regular transcontinental use.
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https://twitter.com/SarahjevsEvans/status/1769264531929178391?s=20
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Even in the early 1900's, people were taking selfish to show baby's got back.
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She should use the camera to cover her face and show her ankles.
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And yet no Jazz and Conversation, from the foot of Mt. Belzoni?
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Take that, Paris.
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Hell yeah
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This one's not as entertaining as the 56k modem one: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7345139906731150597 but it did result in this reply: 
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I don't know how I've never heard of this instrument. https://twitter.com/Komaniecki_R/status/1770170462028357991?s=20
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Dick Trauma posted:I don't know how I've never heard of this instrument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQQEChMq1A&t=86s
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That's so cool! And it led me to this instrument, the 1938 Novachord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMEuibX4c04 EDIT: Don't miss the scandalous and revealing TUBE SHOT. EDIT 2: And that led me to this mind-bending demonstration of how pipe-organs work. I love them but had no idea that organists were playing along with their feet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzK-tYFGQx4 Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 03:45 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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My grandmother was a piano teacher her whole life and slipped on spilled oil at an Aramco gas station in the 70’s, breaking both her forearms. Aramco settled and paid for her recovery plus damages, and she took the extra money to buy herself a full-size pipe organ, which had always been her dream. In order to house the organ in playable state she had to convert her attached garage into a second den - the organ den - where she practiced organ the rest of her life until she had to move to a nursing home in her 80’s due to dementia. Until her death at 97 she could still play Bach études when we walked her to the upright piano in the hallway outside her shared room at the home, although she had long forgotten our names and faces.
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Dick Trauma posted:I don't know how I've never heard of this instrument. It sounds like the music from the awesome game Fez.
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Dick Trauma posted:That's so cool! And it led me to this instrument, the 1938 Novachord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMEuibX4c04 this is really cool, all that early hand wired stuff, good lord.
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