Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
..that i miss the sound of 56k modems..
Hah, 56k, the sound of the future at lightspeed.
I miss my 300 baud acoustic coupler, strapping the the telephone handset in time for a successful connection to your coupler was a true challenge (manually dialing the long oversea number while using your corn-flakes whistle was too - 2600 anybody, SS9 maybe? *lol*).
I still have that thing and I very well remember the only point in time when I was faster than the transmission line with typing
At that time i was too young.
Did you also "knock" phone numbers in public phone booths for free national calls?
Reminds me a little bit of Morsing.
Actually my first "hack" when i was schoolboy below teen age.
Yeah, I remember that we downloaded some program from a US BBS that allowed us to create valid credit card numbers out of thin air and we used that to call random numbers in far away countries from public phone booths with call by call (the lady on the other end would just ask for a credit card number and a number to dial). These times nobody could verify if your credit card is actually existing and can be invoiced, they just used some simple algo to check if the number is *looking* valid.
Oh, well - the eighties, great peaceful times
(You read that third millenium? Right, you sucked from day one TBH!)