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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well my first modem was. It was very slow and you used it by dialing the phone yourself and placing the receiver on the modem. This is called an acoustic coupler.

    Later modems changed this by connecting directly to the outlet. This allowed for digital signals to be sent directly over the copper wires. This allows for much more bandwidth compared to just bleeping and blooping using audio. There were also in between variants which still used pure audio signals, but still connected directly to the outlet to improve signal quality.

    My computer back then also had a tape deck and I would record data using the tape deck. This was also a pure audio based signal. So in theory you could use a regular old tape deck with regular old tapes. However I had a specialized tape deck, specifically made for the computer and special “data” tapes. Not sure if they actually worked better, but I had them so I used them.

    Yes both my back and knees hurt.




  • Cars can get very confusing.

    My car is a German brand, at the time of production owned by Volkswagen (like so many brands). Based on an American design, produced in South Korea and “finished” in Germany. That way it could be sold as a German car, but I suspect the finishing was only paperwork and applying stickers.








  • It was too heavy to move, except for like the single truck that moved it when it crashed. It didn’t just get heavier over night did it?

    It’s just code for nobody wanted to pay to have their shit cleaned up, so everyone just left it because who cares. I can’t imagine it’s much of an “attraction”, that’s just some smart local politician inventing an excuse to not have to clean it up.