15 Years

[squirmelia]

This Christmas, I will celebrate having owned a modem for 15 years.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I've had one for a similar period, possibly a bit longer (either sometime in 94 or late 93). It was a fax modem with 14.4Kb/s, IIRC.
No internet then, just BBSs.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I sometimes miss the noises they made!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Heh. You also knew when the connection was going to be dodgy because the modem would whine even more horribly and longer.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

That was actually quite useful! My connection was often dodgy.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[mrs-tubbs.livejournal.com]

And you could switch the darned thing off to reset it. That usually worked on ours.

Happy Birthday Modem btw!