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Luxury.

We used to have to gopher our info out of Gopherspace at six o'clock in the morning! And our modems worked if we were lucky! There were no youtubes or graphics, our search engines were named after Archie characters, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

But you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you.




Of course we 'ad it tough

We used to have whistle Hayes codes up t'phone line ourselves - after making our own modem leads out 'o back to back NULL modems.

Ones and Zeros - you were lucky. We only had zeros and we had to catch wild ones and skin em ourselves.




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