<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We didn’t have Google, we had Archie back then…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Nov 2014, at 11:22, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" class="">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">And the scary thing is, that's not a 'bad' price for back then.. I was paying $400/month to Netconnect for 14.4k dialup at that time. Then I discovered TID plus exchange-based diversions, and did a two-hop dialup bouncing through an EBD in harcourt, to get to Bendigo. Dropped my dialup costs to ~$200/month!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 12:14, Ivan Jukic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ijukic13@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ijukic13@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="">$5,500.00 p/a for 14.4kbps!!! My Commodore64 it going to be humming on the World Wide Web<br class=""></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 12:11, Mehmet Akcin<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net" target="_blank" class="">mehmet@akcin.net</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">$300 for DNS. sweet<span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""><br class="">Mehmet </font></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank" class="">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Ohhh man, that brings back memories - The twice a day UUCP sync to warrane - and I used to think that was awesome compared to the delivery speed on fidonet. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Imagine how lost todays generation would be if they got their emails in twice a day bursts, or had to wait a few days for international emails!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 12:02, Mark Delany<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:g2x@juliet.emu.st" target="_blank" class="">g2x@juliet.emu.st</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Found this while cleaning out some old files. Wasn't sure about<br class="">inlining images on this list so here are some links.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg</a><br class=""><a href="http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg" target="_blank" class="">http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Mark.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">AusNOG mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank" class="">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="">Damien Gardner Jnr<br class="">VK2TDG. Dip EE. 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