Fifteen Years

In the course of reviewing and pimping my experience, I managed to place when I got my first modem.  I believe it was the end of 1992, coming up on 15 years!

And while I wasted no time starting to use a BBS and getting what passed for online at the time, a major use of the modem that first year was doing remote tech support.  In 1993.

Which is perhaps not that significant, except that even I had forgotten that remote support in one form or another is nothing new.

I’ve actually been wondering what exactly the various support companies that specialize in remoting in and taking over your computer use for the purpose.

Anyway, it just blew my mind, realizing how long since I first got a modem and then how I used it so long ago.

1. You young whippersnappers don’t know what getting a modem was like in the good old days. I was just enough of a holdout that mine plugged into the phone line and didn’t have cups to fit the phone handset. I did, however, need to dial the number on the phone and then toggle a switch on the modem.

   Posted by triticale  on  07/16  at  05:44 PM  from  the you know house

2. My first modem was sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s--it was a 1200 baud job and I did the BBS routine.

   I remember once trying to transfer a single WordPerfect file via phone between my computer in California and a friend calling in from Texas--what an ordeal.

   The first modem I ever used was one belonging to the aforementioned friend--it was a 300 baud set that required flipping toggle switches to connect.

   Posted by Steven Taylor  on  07/18  at  09:24 AM  from 
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