Christian just tweeted with a link to lists of old BBS’s
And so I ended up looking at this list for the UK in 1994 and thinking there’s a culturematic in doing the following:
- Bring the STD codes up to date (mostly “add a 1″ but there have been other changes)
- Call each of the numbers on the list to see what response you get.
- If you talk to a person, write up the conversation. If you get a modem (!) there’s another project in finding out what’s going on.
Just y’know, if you like.
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December 16, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Jeff Bundy (@Bundini)
And notice the jump in baud rates between 1982 and 12 years later in 1994. Whopping speeds! Relative to the times, of course.
December 16, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Lloyd Davis
Yeah, the 14.4k modem that I had for “working at home” then didn’t exactly *zip* along!