2024's First Posting Battle!

[notabitail]

https://nbailey.ca/post/rotary-phone-voip/


doo bee doobee doooo

We actually had the phone hooked up to the spectrum phone box.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Heh. You know the question from this weekend about "what are you really good at?"

This. This is what I'm good at. Internet librarian and historian. Knowing things and knowing where/how to find them. I actually think being a research librarian would be an awesome job, but it doesn't pay all that well compared to tech geekery.

 

[notabitail]

https://nbailey.ca/post/rotary-phone-voip/


doo bee doobee doooo

Found this on the internet a while back. Had to dig through my screenshots for this:

 

[notabitail]

Heh. You know the question from this weekend about "what are you really good at?"

This. This is what I'm good at. Internet librarian and historian. Knowing things and knowing where/how to find them. I actually think being a research librarian would be an awesome job, but it doesn't pay all that well compared to tech geekery.

I love looking stuff up about all my old junk tech.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I lived all of these.

 

[notabitail]

I lived all of these.

I missed out . At least I will be able to tell future generations how slow cable is compared to their 1TB per second cybercable internet.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I missed out

No, no you didn't. Trust me. Broadband is both blessing and curse, but you never want to relive those dark days of dialup.

 

[notabitail]

No, no you didn't. Trust me. Broadband is both blessing and curse, but you never want to relive those dark days of dialup.

True.

 

[notabitail]

I have a computer with 6 whole months of free AOL. All you have to do is reset it to get it again every 6 months.
@azurbanclucker you interested?

 

[azurbanclucker]

I have a computer with 6 whole months of free AOL. All you have to do is reset it to get it again every 6 months.
@azurbanclucker you interested?

Tempting, but I think I'll pass. Never had an AOL account when it was "the hotness". Not about to start now.