[121461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Wed Jan 20 09:02:44 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100120083534.GA63987@reptiles.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:50 -0600
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> "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
>
> i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion.
Good old one.
It's funny how we circle around with technology, folks are dumping
their phone land lines and adopting wireless/mobile that required a
substantial technology leap and investment and now we are using the
mobile phone to "text" an incompressible dialect worse than the early
teletype/telex days but with a humongous infrastructure to support it.
Ohh yeah, now we can send sort of a telegram with multiple fonts and
colors almost from anywhere...
Cheers
Jorge
