I remember when every incremental advance in modem speeds and standards was a big thing. Companies like Sparco[0] were major movers. At home, moving up from a

I remember when every incremental advance in modem speeds and standards was a big thing. Companies like Sparco[0] were major movers. At home, moving up from a 300/1200 external modem to a 9600bps internal (backplane card) was huge. I was first on Usenet in 1986. My employer didn't have a full-time connection then, just a modem that would autoconnect every few hours to upload and download email/Usenet/etc. This was before domain addressing, where you would have to give a full navigation path from a well-known server like decwrl or uunet. I was literally the first person in my company to put my long form email address on my business cards (before @(domain) addressing). [0] https://sites.google.com/site/unistarsparcocomputers/ https://sites.google.com/site/unistarsparcocomputers/