The Internet in the 90s was mostly text based. Do you know how long it took to view an image of considerable quality? I sure as hell would not have wasted my time (which was also limited because you paidby the minute) to look up this guy.

I’m intimately familiar with waiting for interlaced 4 colour gif images to load at 1200 bps.

Wow you were and early adopter. I remember my first modem being 14.4k and I was the first along the people I knew at the time. It was an external modem that plugged in the parallel port.

modem that plugged in the parallel port.

Since that’s so wildly unlikely, what was the model?

I’ve run into a few of these at work in recent years actually. This is a 56k modem but given 14.4k is even slower, it is very likely.

US Robotics 1 020 0439-00 80-010955-01 56Kbps Courier Everything External Modem share.google/sonEV4wqjG1suyQB5

Couldn’t open that, but web searches say rs232. Serial, not parallel, just like essentially all external modems.