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Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Sat Apr 17 05:20:04 2010
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:19:31 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1263923324.10985.4.camel@ub-g-d2>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
gordon b slater wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:00 -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:
>> for days now, i've been trying to remember a quotation, which i vaguely seem
>> "the telephone, once commonly available in cities, ...."
>> ring a bell for anyone?
>>
> Maybe it was a Gopher thing?
>
> This newfangled Googly-thing finds nothing - it'll never catch on.
(rant, sorry)
Ever noticed how a call to a cellphone in the next town sounds
consistently horrible, yet a landline call to "farawayistan" sounds like
it's coming from next door? Damn 3kbps vocoders...
Regards,
Jeroen (who still makes frequent landline-2-landline calls to
"farawayistan" and is not yet an old fart(?))
