Jeff GeerlingI built my own dial-up ISP, then connected to it over WiFi, using Apple's first AirPort base station, from the original iBook G3.
A belated #MARCHintosh video, getting online like it's 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbIoEZZwcgw
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Rob Ricci@geerlingguy oh no, this is exactly what I was doing in 1999, except with Packard Bell machines running Windows
@geerlingguy if someone tags this #retrocomputing I will die
proedie@ricci @geerlingguy My personal definition of retro computing is 20 years. So, yes.
Fratm@geerlingguy Hey, in the 90s I built a REAL dialup ISP and ran it for 8 years :)
v4rd4453n@geerlingguy more like like 89 in 99
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sorry , just realized Americans missed the widespread adoption of ISDN and DSL like Scandinavia and parts of Europe rolled out in the 90s (or was there some good that came out of the digitalness from that early phase? I don't know) ah, the Cable Guy ...
@geerlingguy nice video btw
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Chris Hayes@geerlingguy that dial-up poster is awesome.
I visited the author's website, and it's also neat to see that they made it only with open-source software—
“For graphics design and compositing I use free software like Inkscape, Blender, GIMP, ImageMagick, and librsvg.”
Source: https://www.windytan.com/p/about.html#waveforms
@geerlingguy “I pinged my own NTP server.”
Lol, that's kinda awesome to be able to say. Though considering this same NTP server was giving Jeff HA issues a couple videos back, maybe we now need a “It was NTP” shirt. 😁
Lol, that's kinda awesome to be able to say. Though considering this same NTP server was giving Jeff HA issues a couple videos back, maybe we now need a “It was NTP” shirt. 😁