#demoninternet — Public Fediverse posts
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PS I am not a technophobe!
I was hacking my way into Unix #PDP11 45 years ago, ran a handrolled fork of #KA9Q on #DemonInternet for a decade, wrote lots of my own software for maintaining a large pre-CMS website etc.
But the #AndroidGmailApp has me beaten. ☹️
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For the old nerds in the audience, here's me in 1997 going round the Demon Internet offices asking people what their job was. Note the CRTs and tasteful Hanson poster!
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When I was with #DemonInternet (back when Demon were a competent independent ISP, not a shithole Mikeysoft-as-a-disservice re-seller) I used to quietly research spam, accepting all email for which SMTP delivery was attempted. These days no ISP provides unfiltered delivery, much less SMTP. By comparison I see very little spam, and can't really do much to research it any more. I know why they do it of course - the sheer waste of resource if they didn't. Still disappointing, though.
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I was idly feeding ancient paperwork into the shredder when the size of this phone bill from 2001 took me aback! #WorkingFromHome was an expensive business! £273/month and that seems to be with something called “BT SurfTime”!
Beep boop beep beep boop boop boop boop beep
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeal oooh squeeeeeeeal
Bu-doop bu-doop bu-doop
Crackle crackle squirrrrr wheeee
(That was #DialupModem if you weren’t there!)
#InternetHistory #BritishTelecom
Probably #DemonInternet I think.