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[challenge entry] The Steam engine revolutionises Victorian society

From the The Victorian Internet challenge. See all 320 entries (closed)

(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:16, archived)
# When I first connected to the internet
I was using 2,400bps too.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:17, archived)
# Huzzah!
I remember when it was all 24Kbps...
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:17, archived)
# Tsk.
Young people.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:19, archived)
# Yeah, no respect for us adults
eh, or something...?
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:20, archived)
# I feel old now.
I remember back in the day when I couldn't afford a 14,400bps modem, because they cost over £200.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:21, archived)
# Blimey...
thank buggery for broadband!
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:23, archived)
# I typed papers in high school on a mechanical typewriter
waaaaaaaaaaay back in 1992.
And we liked it.
And we loved it.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:29, archived)
# I had a pool of servants
who carried the bytes up from the local pier as they arrived on the liners from New York one at a time.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:31, archived)
# LOL!!!!!!!!
Funniest response I've heard to date!!!!
LOL!!!!!!
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:42, archived)
# I remember the funky old ones
where you put the tellyfone on top of it.

Of course I wasn't old enough to use it at the time.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:23, archived)
# i
dont ermember anything really. apart from subsink on the early versions of windows... pow! glug glug
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:21, archived)
# MS-DOS Executive
anyone?
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:24, archived)
# not meeee
D://win

C://redalert

i cant remember the actual thingys
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:25, archived)
# I AM ONLY TWENTY-THREE
Sorry, just needed to say that for my own peace of mind.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:27, archived)
# cd\Games\Trans\
tycoon

always did for me...
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:36, archived)
# and it's still downloading
over 100 years later.
(, Sat 15 Nov 2003, 23:41, archived)