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Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gordon b slater)
Wed Jan 20 03:48:27 2010
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From: gordon b slater <gordslater@ieee.org>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100120083534.GA63987@reptiles.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:47:57 +0000
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 03:35 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:
> "The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used
> communications technology in the days before electronic mail.
> They're still easy to find in most large cities." -- Nathaniel Borenstein
Oh, the irony. A quote from Mr MIME himself :)
> i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion.
...or before acoustic couplers were junked perhaps.
