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Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
From: Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:59:59 +1030
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:01:50 -0600 Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com> 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 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.
I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but here in .au they're a fixed and predictable price before you pay it, are significantly cheaper than an equivalent phone call, and if you have anything that requires accurate recording e.g. email addresses, geo addresses or phone numbers, far less prone to errors. 25c for a text with 160 characters, or 50c flag fall for a phone call before I've even said a word and I don't know how many I'm going to say? I know which one I'm going to prefer..
Ohh yeah, now we can send sort of a telegram with multiple fonts and colors almost from anywhere... Cheers Jorge
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- Re: ASR1002 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 19)
- Re: ASR1002 gordon b slater (Jan 19)
- OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Jim Mercer (Jan 19)
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- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 gordon b slater (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Jim Mercer (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 gordon b slater (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Jorge Amodio (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Mr. James W. Laferriere (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Mark Smith (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 Randy Bush (Jan 20)
- Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002 William Hamilton (Jan 21)